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What Is Referencing?: Why Do I Need To Reference My Work?

Referencing is a system used in academic work to indicate the sources of ideas, facts, and information used. It is important to reference work to avoid plagiarism, give credit to authors, and demonstrate thorough research. All information used from sources must be referenced, including details recorded as research is conducted. The Harvard referencing style requires in-text citations and a reference list in alphabetical order by author, with guidelines on capitalization, italics, underlining, and punctuation to be consistent.

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What Is Referencing?: Why Do I Need To Reference My Work?

Referencing is a system used in academic work to indicate the sources of ideas, facts, and information used. It is important to reference work to avoid plagiarism, give credit to authors, and demonstrate thorough research. All information used from sources must be referenced, including details recorded as research is conducted. The Harvard referencing style requires in-text citations and a reference list in alphabetical order by author, with guidelines on capitalization, italics, underlining, and punctuation to be consistent.

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What is referencing?

Referencing is a system used in the academic community to indicate where ideas, theories, quotes, facts
and any other evidence and information used to undertake a report, can be found.

Why do I need to reference my work?

 To avoid plagiarism, a form of academic theft.


 Referencing your work correctly ensures that you give appropriate credit to the sources and
authors that you have used to complete your report.
 Referencing the sources that you have used for your report demonstrates that you have
undertaken wide-ranging research in order to create your work.
 Referencing your work enables the reader to consult for themselves the same materials that you
used.

What do I need to reference?

 All the information that you have used in your report will need to be acknowledged.
 It is essential to make a note of all the details of the sources that you use for your report as you
go along.

The basics

Harvard is known as the Author & Date system:

1. Citations in the text of your report should be made following the in-text guidelines given in the
examples on the following pages.

2. A complete list of all the citations used in your text will need to be provided at the end of your
report. This is called your reference list or bibliography and needs to be presented in alphabetical
author/originator order.

Capitals:
Harvard is not prescriptive about capitalization of authors’ names in your reference list. If you do wish to
use capitals, then the family/surname of authors are only capitalised in this reference list and not in the
body of your work. If you prefer not to use capitals in this list, that is fine, but you must be consistent in
the style you decide to use.

Italics & underlining:


Only the title of the source of information is italicised or underlined, but you should choose only one
method throughout your report and stick to it! Do not use both italics and underlining.

Punctuation:
Harvard has no one true style of punctuation so the generally accepted rule is to be consistent with your
style of punctuation throughout the whole of your report.

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