CITING &

REFERENCING
SOURCES 01 Evaluating sources

02 Citing Sources
Week 6
03 Reference List
 Evaluating Sources
The publication Anything within 5 years
01
date from current time

It is not from non-reputable The

location / source / author and 02
reputationn
recognized

Purpose of Purpose of archiving,

03 sharing, or publishing etc (as
publication/website
long as it is informative)

The content can be used to Content

04
support your text relevance

Quality of the 05
Is the language and
source presentation appropriate
Citing Sources

1 2 3 4

to help readers
to give credit to the distinguish between to allow readers to to demonstrate that
originator of the your ideas and the follow up the you have used
idea ideas of other references that you reliable sources to
people who have have used in your support your ideas
contributed to your writing
work
 Reference List
 documenting sources includes both citing sources and providing a
reference list
 the reference list is the second of the two-part documentation
process
 the format of information in the reference list corresponds to the
in-text citations
 Reference List
General guide for reference list

double-space all entries

have the first line of each entry at the left margin; indent subsequent lines five spaces
use the author’s full last name and only the initial of his/her first name
If there is more than one author, separate the names by a comma and put an ampersand (&) before
the last author’s name
surnames and initials for up to 20 authors should be provided in the reference list
if the author’s name is unknown, write the title of the article first
organise the entries alphabetically by the author’s name/title of the article
at the end of each item in an entry, type a period (.) unless the entry ends with a web address
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Refer to
Lecture
Notes 2