introduction to referencing

REFERENCINGIntroduction to

Suzanne ParfittAssistant LibrarianSenior Library7th January 2013

Referencing at Tanglin Trust School

At Tanglin we use theHarvard Anglia Referencing Style

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Many different referencing styles – e.g. MLA, Chicago, APA…

1. Citation

(Farrington, 2009)

Harvard Anglia Referencing System

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Referring to another author’s work in the text of your own.

Harvard Anglia Referencing System

2. Reference

Farrington, T., 2009. The average life of the average person: how it all adds up. London: Square Peg

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Providing full details of the source in a reference list at the end of a piece of work to enable someone else to find each source.

Bibliography

Listing relevant resources that have been used in the preparation of the work but not necessarily cited in the text.

Citing and referencing a book

Find the information you need…

Create a citation

First, identify the author or authors

Authors can be a person (or persons) or an organisation.

In this instance, it is an authorTadg Farrington

Create a citation

Then find the date of publication

The publication date for this book is 2009

So the citation will be (Farrington, 2009)

Using a citation

Farrington (2009, p.338) states that 165 million cups of tea are drunk every day in Britain.

An average person will spend £658 on Christmas crackers in their lifetime (Farrington, 2009, p.84).

Create a reference

Farrington, T., 2009. The average life of the average person: how it all adds up. London: Square Peg.

Have a go!.....

Have a go…Author and date

Haddon, M., 2004. The curious incident of the dog inLondon: Vintage.

Title

Place of publication

Publisher

Correct punctuation is very important!

Farrington, T., 2009. The average life of the average person: how it all adds up. London: Square Peg.

the night-time.

Need help?

Referencing tool in Word

Referencing Tool in Word

Click ‘Insert Citation’

Click ‘Add New Source…’

Referencing Tool in Word

Referencing Tool in Word

Click ‘Edit’

Referencing Tool in Word

Referencing Tool in Word

Referencing Tool in Word

Haddon , M., 2004. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time. London: Vintage.

TTS Libguides

http://libguides.tts.edu.sg/referencinghttp://libguides.tts.edu.sg

Choose ‘Use the Harvard Anglia Referencing System’

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Finding a date for a website

http://archive.org/web/web.php

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