Referencing

When doing any piece of writing or work it is important to reference where the information you are writing about is coming from. This includes but not limited to, any kinds of essays or reports, books, articles, podcasts, pieces of art, videos and blog posts. Sometimes I have read something and been inspired to write something from it, and so I need to make sure that I state the original source of where I got my inspiration. If you are talking about someone’s idea, but aren’t using quotes, it is still important to reference them.

A great site to use is:

https://www.citethemrightonline.com/

It explains clearly how to reference the many different styles of sources. It shows you how to cite sources in your piece of writing and in the bibliography.  

This is an example of using a quote from a book;

Montagu (1986) explains that touch is referred to as ‘the mother of the senses.’ (pg. 3)

Bibliography

Montagu A. (1986), Touching- The human Significance of the skin, third edition. New York: HarperCollins Publishers

Surname, Initial. (Year of publication) Title. Place of publication: Publisher. Series and volume number if relevant.

This is an example for referencing a web page in your bibliography:

Bhatia. M. (2018) Humans of Data, Your Guide to Qualitative and Quantitative Data Analysis Methods. Available at: https://humansofdata.atlan.com/2018/09/qualitative-quantitative-data-analysis-methods/#Analyzing_Qualitative_Data (Accessed 08/12/2020)

Organisation (Year that the page was published/last updated) Title of web page. Available at: URL (Accessed: date).

It is also important to see what is in italics and what is in brackets. This varies depending on what refencing method you are using. This is Harvard style referencing.

I hope this helps! Here is a blog that helped inspire this post;

https://helenbapp.blogspot.com/2020/11/presenation-of-essays-and-referencing.html


Bibliography

Costello. C. Virtual Library (2020) Referencing. Available at: Referencing - Virtual ​Library (Accessed 06/03/2021)

Comments

  1. Lauren Mitchell9 March 2021 at 04:48

    Hi Alys :)
    Thank you for this clear and informative post, I often am unsure whether I have referenced a source correctly, but will definitely use the website you posted above for some help!
    Lauren X

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    1. Alys May-James12 March 2021 at 12:57

      Hi Lauren,
      Thank you- I think referencing can be really tricky and time consuming- especially as there are so many different methods of doing it! I'm glad this helped :) Alys x

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