Conducting a literature review:
Plagiarism
Because a literature review is based on the work of other authors, you must be very careful to separate an author's evaluation of research from your own. Organisation and scrupulous note taking and referencing are the best ways to ensure that your work is correctly referenced. Make sure that you understand what needs to be referenced:
Plagiarism of ideas occurs when you paraphrase facts or arguments without citation. Anything you get from a book, even if you write it in your own words, needs to have a citation or footnote.
Plagiarism of words happens when you copy another author exactly without putting the words in quotation marks. This type of plagiarism may occur in conjunction with plagiarism of ideas, or on its own. Even if you provide citation information, you also need to put the text in quote marks, or you will be plagiarising. Citations of quotations ought to include page numbers.
The University of Melbourne has a comprehesive website that will tell you more about plagiarism. It is highly recommended that you read this site to get a greater understanding of the University's approach to plagiarism.