Question about referencing for project work

[Deleted member 651465]

Publish your own paper and reference yourself

 

[Danger Phoenix]

I would be very careful about citing secondary references as primary. This is plagiarism and punishable by expulsion form the university.

How is this plagiarism? I am citing the original author of the work, so I have referenced the material and am not treating it as my own work...

 

[Nitefly]

No, numbered references a much clearer to follow and are the de-facto standard for a great many journals. Many university departments also require numbered references.

Clearer to follow? When you are handing a piece of work to a professor who pretty much knows every paper written on the subject off by heart, or at the very least every author of any relevant research paper, you think its clear to follow?

And it has nothing to do with word counts because references aren't counted as word counts.

Here, references inside the text do. Its obviously preference of the department and your University.