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Class Referencing Doneee
Class Referencing Doneee
Class Referencing Doneee
Attribution:
Referencing &
Citation
Attribution
You will be expected to
acknowledge the source materials,
used to prepare essays, technical
write-up, research papers, project
plan etc.:
books, journal articles, WebPages
etc.
This is done by producing a list of
references and citations.
TYPES of Referencing
IN-TEXT REFERENCING SYSTEMS:
Harvard system: Harvard (mostly used by Social
Sciences, Business, Engineering and Science).
TYPES of Referencing
NUMBER-NOTE REFERENCING
SYSTEMS:
Oxford system
Vancouver system
Cambridge reference
Harvard system
In text reference
Davis and McKay (1996, p.112) note
that it is important to be flexible about
the system of referencing and adopt
whichever style is appropriate.
Full reference Davis, L.B. and McKay,
S. 1996, Structures and Strategies: An
introduction to Academic Writing, Macmillan
Education Australia, Melbourne.
APA system
In text reference Davis and McKay
(1996) note that it is important to be
flexible about the system of referencing
and adopt whichever style is appropriate
(p.112).
Full reference Davis, L.B. & McKay, S.
1996, Structures and Strategies: An
introduction to Academic Writing, Melbourne:
Macmillan Education Australia.
MLA system
In text reference Davis and McKay note
that it is important to be flexible about the
system of referencing and adopt whichever
style is appropriate (112).
Full reference Davis Lloyd and Susan
McKay. Structures and Strategies: An
introduction to Academic Writing.
Melbourne: Macmillan Education
Australia,1996.
OXFORD SYSTEM
Numbered reference: Davis and
McKay note that it is important to be flexible
about the system of referencing and adopt
whichever style is appropriate [1].
VANCOUVER SYSTEM
Numbered reference :Davis and
McKay note that it is important to be flexible
about the system of referencing and adopt
whichever style is appropriate1.
CAMBRIDGE FOOTNOTING
REFERENCE
Numbered reference :Davis and
McKay note that it is important to be flexible
about the system of referencing and adopt
whichever style is appropriate1.
Important:
You dont have separate lists of www
sites in your References or
Bibliography sections. Internet sites
are incorporated into one alphabetical
list of references.
Also, you dont give the www address
as your citation in the text of your
work! Instead, you put the name of an
author, or the source organisation.
EXAMPLE
Citation: (Introna 2003)
Reference:
Introna, L., Hayes, N., Blair, L., and Wood, E.
(2003). Cultural Attitudes Towards Plagiarism.
http://www.jiscpas.ac.uk/apppage.cgi?
USERPAGE=7508 [accessed 13/12/2005].
EXAMPLE
Citation: (National Statistics Online 2005)
Reference:
Office for National Statistics (2005).Employment:
Rate rises to 74.9% in 3 months to Sept 05.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nugget.asp?
ID=12 [accessed 13/12/2005].
There is no author(s) name(s) shown, so you start
with the main source, e.g. Office for National
Statistics (ONS), then add the year the data was
originally published by the ONS, the title of the
online screen information, full details of the website
address and finally the date you visited the site.