ReferencingLibrary 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:AccurateConsistentFollow 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:

Salama et 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