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Referencing

What is Referencing?
When you research a topic for an assignment you may use ideas or information from a number of sources, including books, articles from journals or newspapers and websites to support your own work.

Referencing is a way of showing what sources you have used, giving credit to the original authors.


Why Do We Reference?
  • To avoid plagiarism by giving credit to the original source of an idea, piece of information or resource.
  • To support your work with the authoritative work of another author.
  • To demonstrate your knowledge and familiarity with a topic that you have researched.
  • To help readers of your work to find the original source of information or ideas that you have used.

What Do We Reference? 
Any quoted text - use quotation marks whn directly using someone else's words.

Any idea or information paraphrased or summarised from a source which is not common knowledge.


How Do We Reference?
As you do your research, keep a list of all the sources that you use. You need to record specific information for each source - this is called the citation.

Here are some examples:

  • Book = Author, Title of Book, Place of Publication, Date of Publication
  • Journal Article = Author, Title of Article, Title of Journal, Volume, Issue No, Page numbers
  • Website = Author (if available), Date, Title of the source, Retrieval information
Keeping a record of these details will help you to find the source again if you need to refer to it, and will also form the basis of your reference list.

Sound too complicated? Use citethisforme.com
Cite This For Me

Citethisforme is a handy online tool that takes the pain out of referencing  


You can easily cite: 
- a webpage by simply copying an pasting the URL into the Website tab
- a book by searching using title and author's last name
 

It will even collect and collate a downloadable Bibliography for you.
Note: APA is now the preferred referencing style for most Australian universities.
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Reference List

ReferencesCite This For Me, (2014). Cite This For Me: Automatic bibliography generator. [online] Available at: https://www.citethisforme.com/cite/website/autocite [Accessed 8 Sep. 2014].

Cite.auckland.ac.nz, (2014). Referencite - Why do you need to reference?. [online] Available at: http://www.cite.auckland.ac.nz/index.php?p=why_reference [Accessed 8 Sep. 2014].

Learnonline.canberra.edu.au, (2014). Referencing: Why do we have to 'reference' at university?. [online] Available at: http://learnonline.canberra.edu.au/mod/book/view.php?id=180722 [Accessed 8 Sep. 2014].

Newcastle.edu.au, (2014). Building A Strong Foundation For University Life | Referencing - What Is Referencing?. [online] Available at: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/service/library/foundation-portal/referencing-whatis.html [Accessed 8 Sep. 2014].

Rosemary Clerehan, T. (2014). Why do we reference. [online] Monash.edu.au. Available at: http://www.monash.edu.au/lls/llonline/writing/general/reference/index.xml [Accessed 8 Sep. 2014].

Skillsyouneed.com, (2014). Academic Referencing - How to Cite & Reference | SkillsYouNeed. [online] Available at: http://www.skillsyouneed.com/write/academic-referencing.html [Accessed 8 Sep. 2014].

Www2.gsa.ac.uk, (2014). Why Reference?. [online] Available at: http://www2.gsa.ac.uk/library/infosmart/infosmart-cite/infosmart_06.htm [Accessed 8 Sep. 2014].

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