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Referencing your
sources - A simple
introduction

In higher education
when ever you include a
fact or piece of
information in an
assignment or essay you
must also include where
and how you found that
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piece of information.
Even if you 'just know it'
- it has to have come
from somewhere. This is
because in higher
education assignment
writing you are not just
being tested on what
you know, but rather
what you are able to nd
out and what you think it
means.

Details about where you

found the information
utilised to write your
assignment are kept in
two chapters right at the
very end, called the
reference list and
bibliography. The
reference list is where
you list the direct quotes
or paraphrased ndings
of another author. The
bibliography is where
you list sources you've
read for background
information, but did not
directly include in your
work. In addition, a small
mention to the author
and publish year, within
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brackets, must be given

in the main body of your
assignment wherever
you make a reference.

Referencing Styles

To make the reference

list and bibliography
consistent and easy to
read across di erent
papers there are
prede ned styles stating
how to set them out -
these are called citation
styles. Di erent subjects
prefer to each use
di erent styles. The
following are the most
popular:

APA. APA is an
author/date based
style. This means
emphasis is placed
on the author and
the date of a piece
of work to
uniquely identify it.

MLA. MLA is most

often applied by
the arts and
humanities,
particularly in the
USA. It is arguably
the most well used
of all of the citation
styles.

Harvard. Harvard
is very similar to
APA. Where APA is
primarily used in
the USA, Harvard

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referencing is the
most well used
referencing style in
the UK and
Australia, and is
encouraged for
use with the
humanities.

Vancouver. The
Vancouver system
is mainly used in
medical and
scienti c papers.

Chicago and
Turabian. These
are two separate
styles but are very
similar, just like
Harvard and APA.
These are widely
used for history
and economics.

Regardless of what
subject you're writing
for, you should use the
style your university and
tutor recommend and
you must not mix-and-
match. At the moment
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Plagiarism

If you quote or
paraphrase another
author's work without
including a reference to

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it you are plagiarising.

Not only is it very easy to
detect plagiarism using
online services like Turn
It In, but it is also very
easy for your tutor to
spot it just by reading
your work. Remember -
you are not being
marked on your ability
to write facts or show o
what you know. Any
assumptions or facts
you state must have
someone else's credible
work to back you up.
Plagiarism does not only
mean cheating, it is
mainly used to describe
forgetting or not
realising to include a
reference to other's
work or theories.

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