Referencing and Citation

There are two main parts to referencing:

1. The first indicating within your assignment the sources of the information you have used to write your assignment. This demonstrates support for your ideas, arguments and views. This is referred to variously as: citing in text, in text citations or text citations
    
2. The second part to referencing is the construction of a reference list. The reference list shows the complete details of the sources you cited and appears on a separate page, at the end of your assignment.

When creating the reference list entry for an information source you need to identify and record specific details. It might be useful to remember these Ws!

• Who – wrote /edited it – author or editor
• When was it written – date of publication
• What is it – title of book/thesis/dissertation/report, title of the article & serial/journal, title of the web document/blog
• Where is it published (Books) – place of publication– usually city & country and publisher’s name
• Where is the article located (Serial/journal) - volume number, issue number and page numbers of the article
• Where you located it (Internet sources) - URL – web address/DOI