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Referencing and Citation in your Final Year Project
Catie TuttleSubject Librarian (Business Undergraduates)[email protected]
What I’m going to cover
1. Guidelines for avoiding plagiarism and what it is
2. Where to find out how to reference what you’ve found
3. Cite Them Right Online – and other tools for constructing references.
Plagiarism: what is it?University Definition:■ “Plagiarism is passing off the ideas or words of someone else as though they were your own. It applies
equally to the work of other students as to published sources.”
■ “Submitting, as one's own, an assignment that another person has completed.
■ Downloading information, text, artwork, graphics or other material from the internet and presenting it as one's own without acknowledgment.
■ Quoting or paraphrasing material from a source without acknowledgment.”
■ Using other people’s ideas without acknowledgement.
City University London (2012) ‘City University Assessment and Feedback Policy’ Available at: http://www.city.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/68921/assessment_and_feedback_policy.pdf (Accessed 22 September 2016).
What will you need to reference?■Journal articles
■Books and book chapters
■News articles
■Market research
■Company reports
■Financial data
… and anything else that you and your supervisor/tutors identify: government documents, corporate websites, conference proceedings, lecture slides, etc.
Why put citations and references into your work?■ We cite all ideas, quotes, data, opinions, etc. that are not our own by telling
the reader where it came from.
■ Careful referencing protects you from accidental plagiarism■ Reference as you go along in your notes and your work so you can always trace
ideas back
■ Good referencing makes your work more scholarly: ■ Shows your wide range of reading & sources■ Shows good awareness of academic norms & standards■ Helps back up your arguments with work of other scholars■ Can show how hard you worked!
Guidance on Referencing■ Cass uses Harvard Style References ■ Use Cite Them Right Online to set out your references. It covers a huge number of source
types.
■ Library Shorts Film: Basics of Referencing
■ Bibliographic Management Software■ RefWorks – university’s subscription■ Mendeley, Zotero – free online
■ You can also check with your supervisor or ask any librarian if you’re unsure
For example… Journal articlesYou can see good referencing habits whenever you look at a journal article.
Example of a Harvard Style reference:
In-text citation:Some have argued that certain qualities can be identified early in the recruitment process (Ready, 2010).
Reference list:Ready, D. et al (2010) ‘The anatomy of a high potential’, Business Strategy Review, 21(3), pp. 52-55.
For example… Book chapters
In-text citation:According to Thiel and Masters, ‘as globalisation advances, people perceive the world as one homogenous, highly competitive marketplace: the world is “flat”’ (2014, p. 98).
Reference list:Thiel, P. and Masters, B. (2014) ‘Secrets’ in Zero to one: notes on startups, or how to build the future. London: Virgin Books, pp. 93-106.
For example… webpage with an organisation as author
In text:(EasyJet plc, 2015)
Reference list:EasyJet plc (2016) Operational Efficiency. Available at: http://corporate.easyjet.com/corporate-responsibility/our-people/operational-efficiency.aspx?sc_lang=en (Accessed: 26 October 2016).
Top tips■Cass uses the Harvard Style ■This means use the author-date format for citations (Tuttle, 2016, p. 5).
■Three Vital Things to Remember:
1. Be Clear: your aim is to help your reader find the same thing you read.
2. Be Consistent: pick one style and use it all the way through your project – Cite Them Right Online will help you with this.
3. Credit all the ideas you’ve used in your work, not just direct quotes: demonstrates the hard work you’ve done and protects you from accidental plagiarism.
Referencing and Citation Help■ Cite Them Right Online Brilliant guide to Harvard Referencing, best place to find layouts, help, advice.
■ Books in the library:• Neville, C. (2010) Complete Guide to Referencing and Avoiding Plagiarism, 2nd ed. Maidenhead: Open
University Press.• Pear, R., Shields, G. (2016) Cite Them Right: the Essential Referencing Guide, 10th ed. Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan.
■ Subject Guide Citing and Referencing Tab:• http://libguides.city.ac.uk/business/referencing
■ Tools to help:• Citation software: RefWorks, Mendeley. More complex but helpful for storing/reusing references. Contact
the library for the RefWorks code. Mendeley is free. • Word has built-in functions as well.
Any Questions?Please come and ask!
Help In Person:
Library desks on the 2nd and 5th Floor, and at Cass
Contact Catie: [email protected] or 020 7040 4151
General enquiries email for Cass: [email protected]
Enquiries phone number: +44 (0) 207 040 8191
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