Project assignment

Step 1. What citation style do you want to use within the team (e.g. APA or IEEE)? Find out if there are any recommendations by your study programme. Look up the corresponding "style manual".

Step 2. Now take one of the documents you are working on right now (such as a plan of approach, a design document, a research report, ...). If you already have at least two sources per team member, you can go straight to the next step. If not, first look for supporting information to substantiate the statements and decisions your report. Consider, for example, evidence for certain assumptions (e.g. "Older people do not use apps" - what are the user percentages for different age categories?), justification for certain choices ("The programming language will be Java" - why is that a suitable choice?). Or did you perhaps use information, but did not indicate the source? Then search for the used sources.

Step 3. Each team member provides (at least) 2 correct references, both in the text and in the bibliography.

Step 4. Each team member now checks (at least) 2 references from another. Is a reference not correct according to the chosen style? Then give advice for improvement.

Step 5. Repair your own references for which you received advice for improvement.

Congratulations, you now have a better-substantiated document with neat source references and without plagiarism!