Plagiarism occurs when sources of information and ideas are not acknowledged. Deliberate plagiarism is regarded as a serious act of academic misconduct. Academic Misconduct including plagiarism is covered in the University of South Australia's Assessment Policy and Procedures Manual . Other authors have produced electronic style guides based on various style principles, but there is quite a lot of variation between these guides. The 'Harvard' or author-date style does not have an organisation responsible for it, so again different authors are producing different electronic style guides.
Electronic information can be ephemeral.
Information which is available on a World Wide Web page at the time you are writing your assignment, may not be there next time you look. Therefore you need solid proof of its existence, which involves complete citation and in some cases a printed copy of the information. Not all the citation elements may be listed. For example, some World Wide Web pages do not include an author or publication date. Conventions such as n.d.