Referencing: Home

There are a number of different referencing styles used in academic writing. Two most common types are:

Author-date systems, such as the Harvard Style

Number systems, such as the Chicago Style

The Appendix or if there are more than one, Appendices, appear at the end of the document after the list of references. They include material which is too detailed to include in the main body of the report. Make sure that each of the Appendices is titled and diagrams, tables and sketches etc are clearly labelled and captioned.

The content should be summarised and referred to at the appropriate point in the body of the report. The conventions for appendices are as follows:

• each appendix must be labelled with a number (or letter) and title
• each appendix must be referred to by number (or letter) at the relevant point in the text.

Referencing appendices in someone else's work

If you wish to refer to an appendix in someone else's work, then you note this, along with a page number if appropriate, in the citation in your text, for example: It has been shown (Jones, 2015 Appendix A p. 2) that ...

The book, journal article etc is referenced in the normal way in your reference list.

Plagiarism is the presentation of another person's work, ideas, or creations as your own, without acknowledging where those ideas came from. In other words - you take credit for someone else's work.

THIS IS CHEATING!!

What constitutes plagiarism?

• copying phrases and passages word-for-word without quotation marks and without a reference to the author
• paraphrasing an author's work and presenting it without a reference
• copying any part of another students' work
• submitting a piece of work that has already been submitted for assessment in another subject
• presenting other people's designs and images as your own work
• submitting work as your own that someone else has done for you.

If you have used someone else's work without acknowledging your source, you have plagiarised.

The  Online Reference Generator uses the Harvard Style  to create citations for in-text references and bibliographies. You will be redirected to the Subscription Page

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research.

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MyBib is a free online service that allows users to generate citations and bibliographies. You can paste in a ISBN, DOI or URL and have the fields populate automatically. MyBib is new, continually updated, and totally free to use.

HOWEVER,

They are not infallible you may need to find some bibliographic details yourself and sometimes the format of the reference is not correct. If you are using these free generators be sure to check that the reference is correct.