LibGuides: Foundation in Arts and Social Sciences: Referencing

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Referencing

Referencing well will improve the quality of your academic work and help you avoid accidental plagiarism.

You will be directed by your tutors on which referencing style to use. The two most common styles in Humanities and Social Sciences are Harvard and MHRA. The School of Law uses the OSCOLA style.

The Library provides referencing guidance and resources. You can also contact your subject librarian with any questions you have about referencing.

Key referencing resources

Below are some key sources of guidance for referencing. If you need to use the Harvard style, Cite Them Right will be useful.

Cite Them Right by Richard Pears; Graham Shields
ISBN: 9781350933446
Publication Date: 2022-05-19
Covers Harvard, APA, Chicago, IEEE, MHRA, MLA, OSCOLA, and Vancouver referencing styles. This guide to referencing and avoiding plagiarism covers everything from understanding plagiarism and identifying sources to setting out quotations and creating a reference list. It gives detailed examples of how to reference print and electronic sources, business, government, technical and legal publications, works of art, images and much more.
MHRA Style Guide: Fourth Edition by Chloe Paver and others (editors)
Call Number: PN147 MHR
ISBN: 9781839542480
Publication Date: 2024-01-01
he MHRA Style Guide has been widely used by scholarly authors writing about the Humanities since its first edition in 1971. It offers practical guidance on how to cite sources from medieval manuscripts to software and social media. Rules are provided to help working authors deal consistently with issues from quoting weights and measures (‘5kg’, or ‘5 kg’?) to the spelling of European city names (‘Lyons’, or ‘Lyon’?). There is detailed advice on indexing and on the compilation of bibliographies, including thorny issues around how to alphabetize names.

Reference management software

Reference management software can make collecting, storing and using references easier. EndNote reference management software is available for free to University of Bristol students and staff.

There are two versions of EndNote: EndNote Desktop and EndNote Online. The latter is recommended for the Foundation Year, undergraduates and taught postgraduates.

Guidance on using EndNote Online

Guidance on importing references from Library Search and other research databases to EndNote Online, generating bibliographies, and guidance on using Cite While You Write.
Microsoft Word document.

EndNote referencing software

General guidance from the Library on using EndNote.