Citing references

As I said before I never wrote essays before that is why I never did citing as well. I browsed the web and found this web page that helped me a lot in this hard work: http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/harvard.htm.

Also my friend L.A. has presented me a book “Citing references” made by David Fisher and Terry Harrison.

Here it is:

So why bother to cite references?

The first reason is to acknowledge debts to other writers.

Secondly – to demonstrate the body of knowledge upon which your research I based.

Finally - to enable all those who read your work to locate your sources easily.

The process of citing consists of two interrelated parts:

a) Citing – the way a writer refers from the text to the sources used.

b) Referencing - the process of creating the bibliographic description of each source. Put simply, this means the provision of consistent description of the elements needed to identify a source: author, date title, publisher, etc.

There are two main citation/reference systems – the Harvard (also known as Name and Date) and the numeric.

Our class was asked to make citations/references according to a Harvard system.

Here couple of examples of Harvard referencing system:

IN TEXT REFERENCING

Author’s name cited in the text

When making reference to an author’s work in your text their name is followed by the year of publication of their work, in brackets (parentheses) and forms part of the sentence:

Cormack (1994, pp.32-33) states that 'when writing for a professional readership, writers invariably make reference to already published works'.

In general, when writing for a professional publication, it is good practice to make reference to other relevant published work. This view has been supported in the work of Cormack (1994, pp.32-33).

CITATIONS FOR A REFERENCE LIST AND BIBLIOGRAPHY CITATIONS FOR A REFERENCE LIST AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

Using the title page not the book cover, for the reference details. The required elements for a book reference are:

Author, Initials/first name., Year. Title of book. Edition. (only include this if not the first edition) Place: Publisher.

Redman, P., 2006. Good essay writing: a social sciences guide. 3rd ed. London: Open University in assoc. with Sage.

Baron, David P., 2008. Business and the organisation. 6th ed. Chester (CT): Pearson.