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CITING SOURCES
When writing assignments, research reports or theses, you are required to find both secondary and primary sources. This involves looking for books, journal articles and websites that will give you information on the topic you are researching. These sources must be cited in your work whenever you refer to them. This includes quotations as well as paraphrasing information. It is therefore important to write down the details of a book or article when you make notes from it. This will help prevent accidentally plagiarising someone else’s work. ‘Citing’ means to refer to the author of your source, the date of publication, and where necessary the page number.
• When using quotations, use the original words and put them in quotation marks in your text.
• In brackets identify the author, the year the book was published and on which page(s) you found the information. See the examples below.
• add the full reference to the source in your reference list. This will include more details such as the title of the publication, publisher, place of publication, etc. See the examples on page 46.
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Different universities, and sometimes academic faculties within a university, may follow different formats for citing and referencing in academic writing. Check with your lecturer which type of reference style your faculty requires, and how to use it.
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