REFERENCING INSTRUCTIONS
You need to acknowledge the ideas and information that you use in your assignments and reports by referencing them – that means writing in your document who came up with the idea/information and where you found it. This is called ‘citing your sources’ or referencing.
**Footnoting: see the Referencing- Footnoting tab on this website.
Reasons to cite sources:
1. Other people might like to follow up on the research you have found and need to know where to find it.
2. Using other people’s research will give credibility to your argument and show depth of reading and understanding.
3. Claiming other peoples work as your own is plagiarism. This is a violation of copyright law and is cheating.
The Harvard referencing system is a well recognised system for acknowledging sources and is commonly used by Universities.
How to reference:
Whenever you refer to another person’s work in your report, you must immediately acknowledge where it came from.
In Text Referencing:
· Direct Quotes use the exact words of an author. Enclose the quotation in single quotation marks and add the page number. For example:
Dr John Carlsberg (2011, p289) states that ‘children in western society have a higher rate of obesity than those eating traditional diets’.
· Indirect quotes are when you have paraphrased another author’s idea. You must still give page number and year. For example:
Dr John Carlsberg (2011, p289) concludes that children in eating processed food are more likely to have a higher incidence of obesity than their traditional counterparts.
End Text Referencing:
All work that you have cited must be referred to fully at the end of the assignment (usually with a Bibliography).
A List of References refers to sources actually cited.
A Bibliography refers to sources that are actually cited plus other sources you consulted in your research but which were not directly referred to.
Some tips on Bibliographies:
· Use a separate page.
· Set out sources in alphabetical order (by Author surname).
· Leave double line spacing between entries.
It usually goes…
Name, year, date, title of article, title of book/journal, publisher, place of publication… But each source will vary slightly. *Using Microsoft Word to enter citations as you go will automatically determine how this is set out.
If in doubt, come and get some guidance from the library.
Below is the End Text Reference for this article, it is in our library and very handy to have by your side if you are stuck!
King, J. (2010). A Guide to referencing and bibliographies. Brisbane: School Library Association of Qld Inc.
**Footnoting: see the Referencing- Footnoting tab on this website.
Reasons to cite sources:
1. Other people might like to follow up on the research you have found and need to know where to find it.
2. Using other people’s research will give credibility to your argument and show depth of reading and understanding.
3. Claiming other peoples work as your own is plagiarism. This is a violation of copyright law and is cheating.
The Harvard referencing system is a well recognised system for acknowledging sources and is commonly used by Universities.
How to reference:
Whenever you refer to another person’s work in your report, you must immediately acknowledge where it came from.
In Text Referencing:
· Direct Quotes use the exact words of an author. Enclose the quotation in single quotation marks and add the page number. For example:
Dr John Carlsberg (2011, p289) states that ‘children in western society have a higher rate of obesity than those eating traditional diets’.
· Indirect quotes are when you have paraphrased another author’s idea. You must still give page number and year. For example:
Dr John Carlsberg (2011, p289) concludes that children in eating processed food are more likely to have a higher incidence of obesity than their traditional counterparts.
End Text Referencing:
All work that you have cited must be referred to fully at the end of the assignment (usually with a Bibliography).
A List of References refers to sources actually cited.
A Bibliography refers to sources that are actually cited plus other sources you consulted in your research but which were not directly referred to.
Some tips on Bibliographies:
· Use a separate page.
· Set out sources in alphabetical order (by Author surname).
· Leave double line spacing between entries.
It usually goes…
Name, year, date, title of article, title of book/journal, publisher, place of publication… But each source will vary slightly. *Using Microsoft Word to enter citations as you go will automatically determine how this is set out.
If in doubt, come and get some guidance from the library.
Below is the End Text Reference for this article, it is in our library and very handy to have by your side if you are stuck!
King, J. (2010). A Guide to referencing and bibliographies. Brisbane: School Library Association of Qld Inc.
