Bibliography and quote exclusion definitions

Your Turnitin has several exclusion options. When enabled, your Turnitin will exclude all content that is between a Beginning Phrase and a Terminating Phrase.

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Bibliography

Bibliography beginning phrases

  • reference
  • references
  • reference list
  • reference cited
  • references cited
  • reference and note
  • reference and notes
  • references and note
  • references and notes
  • reference & note
  • references & note
  • reference & notes
  • references & notes
  • references and further reading
  • resource
  • resources
  • resources directory
  • bibliography
  • bibliographic Information
  • works cited
  • work cited
  • citations
  • literature
  • literature cited

Terminating phrases

  • appendix
  • appendices
  • glossary
  • table
  • tables
  • acknowledgement
  • acknowledgements
  • exhibits
  • figure
  • figures
  • chart
  • charts

Quotes

Supported marks

Your Turnitin will disregard any matches that use the following quotation marks:

"..." «...» »...« „…“ 『...』 「...」

Unsupported marks

Your Turnitin will not disregard matches that use the following quotation marks:

'...'

Block quotations

Your Turnitin will exclude block quotation (an indented block of text) when the original file is a .doc or .docx file.