Guide to referencing
Referencing at Roehampton:
- Roehampton University Referencing Style Guide
RefWorks- The Bibliographic Software Management tool
- RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool, designed to help you to easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies
- What is Referencing
- What is a bibliography
- What happens if you don’t reference correctly?
- What is plagiarism?
Roehampton University Referencing Style Guide
The ‘University of Roehampton Referencing Style Guide’ is accessible via: http://core.roehampton.ac.uk/repository/search/dbm.pl?guid=5eb1482e-99ea-4dd2-9042-7018fa765a71
The referencing guide contains examples of Harvard, MLA and APA referencing styles including sample bibliographies and full details on in-text citations for each style.
What is referencing?
Referencing is the practice of acknowledging and describing other pieces of work that you have read or used whilst completing your own assignment/essay/report etc…
Why do you need to reference?
- To show how widely you have read around the subject in order to complete your own work.
- To enable other people to trace the sources you have used easily.
- To acknowledge other pieces of work you may have read, quoted from or paraphrased.
What is a bibliography?
A bibliography is an alphabetical list of other work you have referred to or read, that you put at the end of your assignment or essay.
A reference is a description of your source, which includes details like the author’s name and the title of the work.
Citing is giving credit to the work of another person within the body of your own work.
What happens if you don’t reference correctly?
The consequences of not referencing correctly could include the loss of marks for a piece of work or an accusation of unintentional plagiarism.
What is plagiarism?
- Paraphrasing or copying chunks of text without acknowledging the source of the original work.
- Not quoting accurately.
- Not listing all the works you have used in your bibliography.
- Copying work from other students.
- Allowing your work to be copied.
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