What is Referencing?
Anything that you have read, and refer to in your academic writing, you must:·
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This means books, journals, magazines, newspaper articles, websites, documents on websites (PDFs), lecture notes, PowerPoint slides....
There are hundreds of various styles of referencing. The Harvard style (or name and date) is one most used in AIT. However, always check with your lecturer on which style they require.
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A free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. Download a client for Windows, Mac or Linux; a connector for Firefox, Edge, Chrome, or Safari; plugins for Microsoft Office and LibreOffice.
Browser connectors can pick up detailed record metadata from library catalogue entries, official publications and websites as well as ejournal articles.
Zotero's desktop client will also store pdfs where available online. To add saved PDFs, drag and drop into the desktop client, Zotero will create the reference entry if the metadata is retrievable.
Additional styles can be added from the repository.
If the Word plugin doesn't install, click on Cite - Word Processers - Install...
To use for referencing a chapter in an edited book
To use for In-text citation of secondary references
Importing Word bibliographies - requires third party software.
Mendeley is free reference manager. It includes a desktop version and a web importer.
When installed, a Microsoft Word plugin may be added.
References may be extracted from pdf documents.
Material Type | Examples of an 'In Text Citation' | Examples of a full Reference |
Image, figure, illustration, photo or table (Reproduced in your assignment) |
Template: (Author date) Diagrams etc. are usually accompanied by a brief description and are listed throughout a piece of work by figure number. When referring to diagrams, graphs, tables, illustrations, photographs, etc. in the text, you should use Figure number (and Source if relevant). Note: Images adapted from other works - reproduced in your text A table of data or graph which is taken from another work should be acknowledged as a reference like any extract from a published source. In the context of a graph, it is labelled a figure, e.g. Figure 1. The source citation or InText Caption is placed after the title of the graph with the author’s, the year of publication and page number (if a book) Example Figure 1: Questions the Literature Review can Answer (Source: The Learning Centre, 2007, p.66) |
CITATION ORDER FOR IMAGES IN BOOKS
The Learning Centre (2007) Questions the literature review can answer. [Diagram] A guide to writing a literature review. Dublin: Arrow publishing, p. 25., illus. |
Reference to an image in a Book (not reproduced) | As shown in a photograph, Fig. 2. (University of Limerick 2003, p. 10 )... |
University of Limerick (1999) Postgraduate student at work in the telecommunications laboratory. [Photograph] University of Limerick: a celebration. Limerick: University of Limerick, p.105., illus. |
Image – on the web (Not reproduced but mentioned) |
(Author, date) |
CITATION ORDER FOR IMAGES ON THE WEB
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and 3; Image on the Web (mentioned not reproduced) |
(Coca Cola 2007)...
Note: If there is no responsible person or body given then use the image title and date for in-text citation see internet example below..
(Where to study for finals 2012) |
Coca Cola (2007) New Coke logo. [Image] Available at: http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/presscenter/img/imagebrands/downloads/ lg_new_coke_logo.jpg [Accessed 16 August 2007].
Note: If there is no author: use image title as author
Where to study for finals (2012) [photograph] Available at: http://bettermarksnow.com/category/studying/ [Accessed 16 December 2013].
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In an Online journal |
As shown in a diagram labelled, 'Storyboard for Ivan's mornng routine' (Buggey 2007) |
CITATION ORDER FOR IMAGES IN ONLINE JOURNALS
Buggey. T. (2007) Storyboard for Ivan's morning routine. [Diagram] Journal of Positive Behaviour Interventions, 9 (3) p.151. Available at: Academic Search Premier, [Accessed 18 December 2013]. notes When referencing images that come from articles,
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