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Introduction Format of Papers |
Submitting Papers to the Library Copyright and Plagiarism |
The Library invites and encourages academic departments to nominate outstanding student papers to the Library. The following guidelines are established to help you understand how papers will be selected for inclusion in the OAPS Project and what will be required during the submission process.
The scope of student papers includes term papers, term projects, reports and publications of all courses and levels (both undergraduate and postgraduate).
The nomination criteria are generally set by the academic departments. To set good examples for students and to maintain the high quality of papers, it is expected that only papers with very good grades will be selected.
The selected student papers will be archived in the Outstanding Academic Papers by Students and made accessible online to the University community and the general public.
Below are the guides for preparing the papers to be submitted to the Library. If there are any problems in the preparation and writing process, please contact the Library.
The full text of the paper should include at least the following parts.
Citing the source of reference materials should follow proper citation styles. Different subjects and disciplines have different practices. The most commonly used citation styles are APA (American Psychological Association) Style, MLA (Modern Language Association) Style, and Chicago Style. Students may refer to the books on style manuals kept in the Library Collection or visit the following Research Guide:
In addition, students should follow the guidelines and citation styles as specified by their own colleges or departments if there is any.
Two electronic formats of the papers should be submitted. One is the source file, usually in MS Word format. Another is the Adobe PDF file created from the source.
The PDF file should be a text-embedded file and searchable. It can be created using Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Word. If it is created by scanning a print copy into image format and then converted into PDF, the file will not be searchable, thus not recommended. You may refer to the following Steps for Creating PDF Files.
The file should be named in the following format:
[Department abbreviated code][4-digit academic year]-[4-digit course code]-[last name+first name initials][last 3 digits of Student's ID].pdf.
For example, the paper of a student in the course EF3412 of Department of Economics & Finance in the academic year 2008 whose name is Chan Tai Man and student number is 87654321 will be named as:
ef2008-3412-ctm321.pdf
Under most circumstances, the above filename will be unique. If two files have the same name, append a unique alphabet (starting from b) to the identical filename(s):
ef2008-3412-ctm321.pdf
ef2008-3412-ctm321b.pdf
If the paper is authored by more than one student, the file should be named after the first author in the sequence shown in the paper.
To comply with the Personal Data (Privacy) Issues, the Library will follow the Code of Practice not to display publicly an individual's name together with the ID. When preparing the PDF file, students are advised not to include their ID numbers in any part of the PDF files.
Checklist for the required documents to be submitted to the Library:
Electronic documents can be submitted as attachments to the e-mail account lboaps@cityu.edu.hk, or submitted to the Library in CD-ROM format. The signed Approval Form must be submitted in hardcopy format to the Library.
The Library will only accept outstanding student papers submitted by the departments, students who wish to submit papers should contact their instructors or departments.
If you have any comments and questions, please contact the Library by email: lboaps@cityu.edu.hk or by phone: 3442-6404.
While the copyright ownership of the student works remains with the students, in accordance with the University Policy on Intellectual Property, the University will have a royalty-free and non-exclusive perpetual license to use the student works for normal University educational and operational purposes. If there is any third party copyrighted matter included in the paper, it is the responsibility of the student to ensure that the copyright has been cleared. Students may further assign the copyright of their papers to the Library for publishing and distribution.
Papers submitted by students should be properly documented. Students should be aware that quoting, paraphrasing or summarizing the ideas of others without acknowledging the original source may commit plagiarism. Some good tips and guidelines on how to avoid plagiarism are as follows:
Office of the Provost
University Requirement on Academic Honesty
Rules on Academic Honesty
CityU Academic Regulations and Records Office
Academic Honesty
Run Run Shaw Library
Preventing Plagiarism
