Reputation and recognition are essential rewards in academic and scholarly publishing. Giving credit where due is a matter of academic and professional integrity and responsible conduct of research. Publishers report that disputes and misunderstandings over who should be cited, acknowledged, or given joint authorship are a major source of controversies and retractions.   

In this program participants will compare the three most common practices for giving credit:

• Citation
• Acknowledgement:
• Joint Authorship

Using a case study approach, participants will look at "real life" cases of plagiarism and publishing disputes to determine when and how to cite, acknowledge, or offer joint authorship to give credit to other contributor's work.

This program is part of the Caltech Library's Author Carpentry initiative. In addition to the session offered through the Library Instruction calendar, it is available by request for any Caltech group of 6 or more.