Padding Your Bibliography 

Your bibliography should list only the sources you have consulted in your research. Although when time is short you may be tempted to make it appear that you have done more research than you actually have, misrepresenting the number of sources consulted breaches academic integrity codes for three reasons:

• such practices represent attempts to obtain grades by avoiding required work and, as such, are forms of cheating
• such practices could lead you to misattribute and misrepresent source material and are thus irresponsible research practices
• such practices constitute a form of falsification and fabrication