Citations, cheating and plagiarism

The following internal documents/links provide information and guidelines on the Institute's policy regarding citation of work in written submissions:

• How to cite bibliographical references?
• How to cite electronic and audio-visual documents?
• How to cite legal documents?
• Other resource from the University of Geneva

 

• Internal Guidelines governing citation sources and plagiarism

Definitions

• Cheating includes any action in disregard of the rules and standards governing evaluation or re-using, all or part, of coursework for which credits or a degree have already been obtained and presenting it as an original piece of work.
• Plagiarism includes appropriating the work of a third party and presenting it as one’s own work, copying text, data, figures, images,
  etc. from external sources without citing the source or presenting ideas of other authors as original work.

Faculty and Master dissertation / PhD thesis directors can run text through a dedicated programme which is able to detect plagiarism. In the event that cheating or plagiarism are found to have occurred, a “0” grade will be attributed. Depending on the severity of the offence, the student may be excluded from the Institute.