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Referencing. Library and Learning Centre. Why should you give references?. Fully acknowledge others work/ideas/inventions Show the breadth of your research Others can find the material you’ve used So references need to be: Accurate Consistent Follow established standards.
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Referencing Library and Learning Centre
Why should you give references? • Fully acknowledge others work/ideas/inventions • Show the breadth of your research • Others can find the material you’ve used So references need to be: • Accurate • Consistent • Follow established standards
Citation / Reference • The reference is the full bibliographic detail that you would include in the list at the end of your work. • The citation is the brief information you would include in your text
Citing References In the text of your work, whenever you include a piece of information derived from another source (textbook, periodical article, web site etc) you must say where the information came from if a direct quote you need the page number. (Hart. 2004, p56.)
If copying text directly, you must quote: “ Most deaths from measles globally can be prevented by the end of the decade, thus virtually removing a major infectious disease scourge affecting children in developing countries” (Salama et al. 2005, p213.) All names the first time , first name and et al. thereafter
An alternative is to paraphrase: • Salamaet al. (2005). concluded that by the end of the decade most deaths from measles can be prevented. OR In a recent study (Salama et al. 2005,)it was argued that most deaths from measles can be prevented by the end of the decade.
You must use a citation for: • Direct quotations • Paraphrases and summaries of others’ ideas • Arguable assertions (i.e. anything controversial or not clearly factual) • Statistics, charts, tables, graphs and images
You may not need a citation for: • Common Knowledge or facts • Your own ideas or discoveries BUT, if in doubt CITE!
Reference List/ Bibliography • Included at the end of your work • Lists the full details of all your sources (include page numbers from chapter books and journals) • Links with all your citations • References given in alphabetical order by author’s surname
Make up of Reference To reference a quotation from an item you should record: • Author, date, title, place of publication, publisher • Format if not paper [Online], • Pagination if it is an article or chapter book • URL and date of viewing [ ] or ( )
Book Author(s) Year Title in italics • Hart, C., (1998). Doing a literature review, releasing the social science research imagination. London: Sage Place of Publication Publisher
Journal Author(s) / editor(s) Year Article Title • Broadbridge, A. and Swanson, V. (2005). Earning and learning: how termtime employment impacts on students adjustment to university life. Journal of education and Work 18 (2) pp235-249 Volume Issue page no. Journal title in italics in italics
Website An example of a reference for a home page would be made up of the following elements: Organisation /name of homepage date title of page Department of health . 2008. Health inequalities: progress and next steps [Online]. Available at: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsand statistics/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_085307(Accessed: 3 June 2012) URL date accessed format
Reference Examples • HORTON, R. C., 2004. MMR: Science and fiction. London: Granta. • SALAMA, P., McFARLAND J., MULHOLLAND, K., 2005. Reaching the unreached with measles vaccination. The Lancet, 366(9488), pp.787-788.
Keep records and references • Keep records of materials you gather ; a continuous open bibliography can be useful • Be aware of the appropriate referencing style • Check your work carefully
College Policy and Procedures • Wiltshire College uses Harvard style referencing • The College subscribe to a Plagiarism Detection Service called turnitin • Any suspected piece of work may be submitted to the Service • If you have plagiarised it may result in disciplinary procedures