From the University Code of Conduct:
A. Academic Dishonesty
Academic dishonesty is any attempt by a student to submit as his/her own work that which has not be completed by him/her or to give improper aid to another student in the completion of an assignment, i.e., plagiarism. No student may intentionally or knowingly give or receive aid on any test or examination, or on any academic exercise that requires independent work, or use improperly use technology (i.e., instant messaging, text messaging, or using a camera phone) prohibited materials of any sort to give or receive aid on a test or examination. The following are examples of academic dishonesty:
1. Copying from another student's paper.
2. Using materials on a test or examination not authorized by the instructor.
3. Collaborating with any other person during a test or examination without authorization by the instructor.
4. Knowingly obtaining, using, buying, selling, transporting or soliciting, in whole or in part, the contents of a non-administered test or examination.
5. Coercing any other person to obtain a non-administered test or examination, or to obtain information about such an examination or test.
6. Substituting for another student, or permitting any other person to substitute for oneself to take a test or examination.
7. Altering test answers and then claiming the instructor improperly graded the test or examination.
8. Collusion or purchased term papers:
Collusion, the unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing work offered for credit, is academically dishonest. Montclair State University prohibits the preparation for sale and/or subsequent sale of any term paper, thesis, dissertation, essay or other assignment with the knowledge that the assignment will be submitted in whole or in part for academic credit.
9. Plagiarism:
Plagiarism is defined as using another person's words as if they were your own, and the unacknowledged incorporation of those words in one's own work for academic credit. Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to, submitting as one's own a project, paper, report, test, program, design, or speech copied from, partially copied, or partially paraphrased work of another (whether the source is printed, under copyright in manuscript form or electronic media) without proper citation. Source citations must be given for works quoted or paraphrased. The above rules apply to any academic dishonesty, whether the work is graded or ungraded, group or individual, written or oral. The following guidelines for written work will assist students in avoiding plagiarism:
(a) General indebtedness for background information and data must be acknowledged by inclusion of a bibliography of all works consulted;
(b) Specific indebtedness for a particular idea, or for a quotation of four or more consecutive words from another text, must be acknowledged by footnote or endnote reference to the actual source. Quotations of four words or more from a text must also be indicated by the use of quotation marks;
(c) A project work shall be considered plagiarism if it duplicates in whole or in part, without citation, the work of another person to an extent than is greater that is commonly accepted. The degree to which imitation without citation is permissible varies from discipline to discipline. Students must consult their instructors before copying another person's work.
Minimum sanction: Probation; Maximum sanction: Expulsion