What is Referencing?
- If you use someone else's work, you must acknowledge your original source or sources. Referencing means acknowledging your source:
• In the body of your work (in-text referencing or citation) AND
• Linking your citations to your list of works cited (also reference list or bibliography).
Proper references must be given and must be sited in text. Depending on the referencing style you use, you may use numbers (in text) and then list them in the order of appearance OR use surnames (in text) and list in alphabetical order.
Reference Management Tool: Mendeley
- Mendeley
Mendeley is a citation management tool that, like many others, lets you collect & organize citations, & then easily insert them into documents & format bibliographies. But it also lets you drag & drop PDFs into your library & extracts the metadata to create a library!
You can highlight and annotate your PDFs and share them with others. Colleagues can then also annotate the same document, with each author displaying as a different colour.
Use more than one computer? It's not a problem! Download Mendeley Desktop to as many computers as you want, then sync them with a click of your mouse. Need to use your library away from your computer? Mendeley Web gives you access to your citations no matter where you are.
Mendeley is social: create a profile, follow other researchers, create a network of people doing similar research. Discover the articles and journals that are being read in your field right now.
Create collections of papers. Make them public & share them with an RSS feed (great for class reading lists!).
Reference Management Tool: Zotero
- Zotero
Zotero is a free and open-source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials (such as PDF files). Notable features include web browser integration, online syncing, generation of in-text citations, footnotes, and bibliographies, as well as integration with the word processors Microsoft Word, LibreOffice Writer, and Google Docs. It is produced by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
Plagiarism
According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, to "plagiarize" means:
- to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own
- to use (another's production) without crediting the source
- to commit literary theft
- to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source (Merriam-Webster Dictionary 2023)
Harvard referencing guide
In text citation example
Reference list examples Harvard styles
