Referencing
Referencing is a crucial part of successful academic writing and is key to your assignments and research, and we know it’s one that can be confusing at times. That’s why the Library has put together a collection of resources to help you acknowledge your sources properly.
Referencing is the process of citing or documenting the sources of quotes, theories, ideas, illustrations and diagrams that you have used in writing your university assignments. When we acknowledge sources in this way, we give credit to another person’s words, ideas or opinions in the form of a note and/or bibliographic reference or citation.
There are a number of reasons why you need to reference your work:
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To show that relevant sources have been investigated
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To enable the person reading our work to trace the original sources we have used
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To provide documentary support for an argument
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To give differing points of view of an argument
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To indicate that we have not used someone else's ideas and claimed them as our own
Referencing your work adequately will ensure that you are not accused of plagiarism. You must acknowledge (reference or cite) any work, or part of any work, that you quote, paraphrase, summarize or copy
Referencing Tools/ Software and Citation Styles
Referencing software will help you to save time as it allows you to:
- Enter or import citations from your favorite databases and websites.
- Easily create, build and organize bibliography in any citation style
- Format citations for papers.
- Take notes on articles and save them in your collection of citations.
- Save and organize PDFs, screenshots, graphs, images, and other files for your research.
- Manage, edit and format your references (citations)
- Referencing can be daunting at the best of times, but fortunately there are tools to make it easier. The Library has provided best reference software.
EndNote
The Library offers an academic license, support and training for The University has a perpetual access of this reference manager tool that can help you to organize your research and discover the latest research.
It enables users to search online bibliographic databases, organize references and create and format instant bibliographies. It also contains an integration interface with Microsoft Word, as well as a traveling reference library that follows the document for easy collaboration with others.
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