Theme 03 Framework for planning research

Preparing a reference list.

Task One:
You are going to write a reference for the textbook The Essential Guide to Doing your Research
Project.

This is the information we need. Where can you find it?

Author family name and initial:
Year of publication:
Title:
Edition:
Place of publication:
Publisher:

Then, we need to organize the information in this exact format.

Author family name, author initial. (year of publication) Title in italics. Edition (unless first edition).
Place of publication: publisher.

O’Leary, Z. (

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Example:

Type of Source Information needed to

Example full reference
(e.g. book) complete a full reference
Author or editor family
name, initial(s). (year of Mackey, D., Carne, P., Cooper, A., & Ecksturt-Didier, S.
(2015). Grammar Explorer. Boston: National
Book publication) Title of book. Geographic Learning.
Place of publishing:
publisher.
Author or editor of article
family name, initial(s). (year) Yeung, A. W. K., Goto, T. K., & Leung, W. K. (2018).
Title of article. Name of Readability of the 100 Most-Cited Neuroimaging Papers
Online journal
journal, Volume of journal Assessed by Common Readability Formulae. Frontiers
article in Human Neuroscience, 12.
(issue number of journal).
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00308
Page range of article. DOI
or URL

Author or editor of article European Commission. (n.d.). European language

family name, initials(s).
Website
(year) Title of web page.
Title of website. URL
initiatives | European Education Area.
Education.ec.europa.eu.
https://education.ec.europa.eu/focus-topics/improving-
quality/multilingualism/european-language-initiatives

Christiansen, M. C., & Chater, N. (2022, March 23).

Author or department (year,
News article
date) Title of Report. Title of
[Online]
Publication [online]. URL
How language evolved: A new idea suggests it’s all just
a game. New Scientist.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25333792-600-
how-language-evolved-a-new-idea-suggests-its-all-just-
a-game/

Task Two:

Locate Source Types – Examples in the VLE. Using Sources A-C, work with a partner to
complete the table below (NB: you might not see the URL – try to find it, or leave it blank).

Sourc Type of Source

Full reference
e (e.g. book)

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