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Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience

Referencing

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

Looking up the work of other people, using their ideas, debate and discussion are all essential aspects of scientific work. It is important to inform your readers where you found the ideas you include in your work for a number of reasons:

  • academic integrity
  • your readers can find what you read
  • avoid plagiarism

The Library provides comprehensive guidance to help you. You can also contact your subject librarian with any questions you have about referencing.

There are a variety of reference managers available. You should choose one based on whether it supports the writing platform you will use. Have a look at our pages on EndNote, Mendeley and Zotero, which work well with Word.

There are many different referencing styles: check with your tutor if you are unclear as to which style you should be using.

You can read more about referencing on the Library web pages.

 

Tools to help you with referencing

Cite Them Right

Tutorial: EndNote Online

Tutorial: EndNote Desktop

Notebook and laptop

This interactive tutorial guides you through the process of using EndNote Desktop to manage your references.