Referencing is acknowledging all of the sources of information or ideas that are not your own, that you have used to create your assignment. Using the work of others in your assignments as evidence and support for your arguments is part and parcel of academic writing and it shows that you have engaged with academic materials during your research.
You must reference any type of material that is not your own original idea such as:
The referencing style the college uses is cite them right which will be explained thoroughly in this guide however for more help please go to the Cite Them Right tool which can be found here: https://www.citethemrightonline.com/.
There are three steps to referencing correctly:
There are many ways to cite sources within your own work. Learning how to cite well and weave academic sources into your own writing is part of the challenge of learning to write academically. Reading academic material can help with this. There are many online courses and tutorials that can help you to develop your academic writing skills.
This course from Lund University is a good example.
We acknowledge and appreciate the help given from other staff members in the making of this guide in particular Una Keating (Library assistant) who helped with the editing.
