•What are we covering today?

•Recap basics of Referencing

EPQ Session 15 – March 2018

“ Referencing is the process of acknowledging other peoples work when

you have used it in your assignment”

Pears (2016, p.1)

It allows others to locate the source material you have used.

Why Reference?

• Any information you:

• copy or paste

• repeat word for word

• paraphrase or summarise

•must be acknowledged .

Reference All Sources

•Everything Book NewspaperJournal article – print or ebookWeb pageYou tubeDownload – Spottify, Record -Face bookMAP DVDGraphStatisticsPhotographInterview

What should you reference?

•Always reference the version of the source you have actually used and seen.

Why is Referencing Important ?

Helps others

Courtesy

Credibility

Honesty

Helps yourself

Direct quotations

Paraphrasing ideas

When should you reference

When using someone elses ideas, theories or point of view

When using tables, diagrams, photographs from others

• Give a brief abbreviated details of the work you are quoting from or referring to.

• These link to the full reference in the reference list /• Bibliography

• Several ways you can include citations, depends on your own style or flow of your work

In text Citations

In text Citations• How might you show an in text citation?

• If you are quoting directly or using ideas from a specific page of a text, you can show this by one of the ways illustrated below:

• Direct quotation “It was the best of times it was the worst of times” (Dickens, 1875, p.1)

• Name, Date, Page when direct quotation

• Zarife (2017, p21) argues that

• Name outside brackets and (Date, Page inside brackets) when sentence wouldn’t make sense otherwise

• Birmingham has more canals than Venice. (Bowater, 2017)

• Name, date in brackets – if sentence stands alone, makes sense.

• You may want to refer to a source that is mentioned in a work you are reading

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• Authors quoting other authors

• Make it clear you haven’t seen the original text

• Cite original author followed by secondary author

What is Secondary referencing?

Secondary Reference Example

• Harvey (2015,quoted in Lewis, 2016,p.86) provides an excellent survey

• White’ views on genetic abnormalities in crops (2014, cited in Murray, 2015) supports the idea

• In the text for a direct quotation

•“Within three weeks of Kitzelman’s execution, Himmler addressed officers of the SS Division”

• (Taylor, 1971 in Gilbert, 1989, p.332)

•Where it was originally published , followed by where you saw it.

•How about if its not a direct quotation?

In the bibliography

•Gilbert, M. (1989) The Second World War . Oxford: Oxford University Press

•Harvard method of referencing most widely used

•Other versions dependent on subject e.g OSCOLA – Law

•What you include depends on the information/ material you are referencing, each format has its own protocol

Bibliography - What should you include

• Pears, R. and Shields, G Cite Them Right: The Essential Referencing Guide (Palgrave Study Skills) 2016

• See all formats and editionsPaperback£8.059 Used from £8.3523 New from £5.24

Cite them Right

How to reference a book

Roberts, D. (2014) Restoration Plays and Players: An introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kirwan, B and Leather, C. (2011) Student’s voices: a report of students experience of dyslexia. Dyslexia Research monthly, 29 (1), pp.28-30.

How to reference a journal article

Conflict Memory Displacement (2016) Conflict Memory Displacement: Responding to the refugee crisis in the UK and Italy. Available at: http://conflictmemorydisplacement.com/ [Accessed 28 July 2016].

How to reference a web site

• Referencing function on Word

• Ref Me - it’s free

• www.refme.com add author and title of a book and it will generate reference

• Cite this for me www.citethisforme.com – paste web page in to create citation, only saves list for a limited time. Need to copy and paste your work to save it

Online Referencing tools

Dobbie loves Referencing …

Thank you for listening

If you need help with your referencing please contact Miss Goode at:

mgoode@arthurterry.bham.sch.uk