Referencing
Accurate and consistent referencing is a key academic skill. It consists of acknowledging the sources that you have consulted in preparing an assignment, in the body of your work, and in a bibliography at the end of it.
Three key reasons why referencing is important.
- It allows you to demonstrate that you have consulted high quality scholarship in your research,
- It permits your readers to consult your sources easily
- It protects you from any claims of plagiarism.
Some useful reference works are listed below. However, you should familiarise yourself with the guidance on referencing and the setting out of quotations in your work provided by academic staff in your handbook. You will find this on Blackboard.
Cite Them Right by ISBN: 9781350933446Publication Date: 2022-05-19Covers 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, 3rd editionThe third edition contains detailed advice on how to set out references (chapter 11). Note that it will be replaced by the fourth edition at the end of 2024.
Guidance on using EndNote Online
EndNote referencing software
Guidance on referencing and transliteration from Chinese and Cyrillic
- Examples of referencing in Harvard and MHRA.Microsoft Word document.