Referencing also know as citing is a way of giving credit to individuals for their creative and intellectual works that you used to support your assignment or research. It can also be used to locate particular sources and combat plagiarism.
A reference (citation) style dictates the information necessary for a reference (citation) and how the information is ordered, as well as punctuation and other formatting.
Referencing is important because it:
Good note taking habits can assist you in differentiating between references from other sources and your own ideas.
Whenever you use an idea or information from someone else's work, for example from a journal article, textbook or website, you should acknowledge the original author to make it clear where that idea came from. This is the case regardless of whether you have directly quoted, paraphrased, translated or summarised their work.
Use this diagram to help you decide when you need to reference (cite):
Referencing the work of other people involves two distinct elements:
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