Wednesday 5 August 2009

Referencing

Refworks
Referencing on the course follows the Harvard structure Some examples

H808 Guidance
Braeking all rules at the moment I have pasted the main bits here to edit and provide quick reference for me later. Ref works has also been setup.

Referencing
Referencing is important in the presentation of work, particularly at postgraduate level. Complete and accurate references are a hallmark of high-quality academic writing. You may be familiar with another referencing system, but for your assignments in this course please use the Harvard (author/date) system, which is the one we use in the MAODE programme. List your references at the end of your assignment, alphabetically by author, and by date within author, as explained below. When marking your work, your tutor will look for accurate use of the Harvard system.

Library: Cite references:
"How to organise your references
You can acknowledge your sources by creating a list of references or bibliography. You do this in 2 steps:

Step 1:
In text citations In text citations are where you indicate in your work where you have used ideas or material from other sources. How you do this depends on which referencing style you use. Here are some examples using the Harvard referencing style. Further work (Brown, 1999) supports this claim Further work by Brown (1999) supports this claim 'This theory is supported by recent work' (Brown, 1999, p.25)

Step 2:
List your references at the end of your work Everything you have cited in the text of your work , e.g. journal articles, web pages, podcasts etc, should be listed at the end. These are your references. References should include everything you need to identify the item, and should be in a standard and consistent format. Your reference list can also include items you have read but not referred to directly in your text. Electronic sources should also be cited consistently and systematically. With e.g. web pages, e-journals, podcasts, you need to say when you last accessed them. This is because electronic sources are updated frequently, so saying when you accessed them is like giving the edition of a book."

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