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Referencing Style
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2. “There is no way to get experience
except through experience.”
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3. Terminology:
 Citation
 Refrence
 Bibliography
 Dissertation
 Thesis
 Research Report
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Referencing Style
 The Vancouver system – used in medical and scientific journal
 The Harvard system
 Chicago manual of style
 American Psychological Association (APA)- Psychology,
education and other social sciences
 American Medical Association (AMA) – Medicine &
biological sciences
 Modern Language Association (MLA)- literature & arts
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Referencing Style contd..
Why do we need reference?
 To give credit to the ideas/works of other authors.
 To allow others (readers) to find the original sources
easily (cited reference)
 To make the work informative. (Quality)
 To get recognition & authentication of the work.
 To address the issue of plagiarism
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Referencing Style contd..
Plagiarism
Examples:
 the verbatim copying of others work without
acknowledgement.
 the close paraphrasing of others work by simply
changing a few words of altering the order of
presentation.
 the unacknowledged quotation of phrases.
 PROGRAMME: IThenticate and Turn it in
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Referencing Style contd..
Sources of Information
1. Book
2. Journal
3. Newspaper / magazine
4. Conference paper/proceedings
5. Annual report
6. Institutional / Government publication
7. Electronic sources- Website, CD-ROM, Databases
8. Theses/ Reports/ unpublished works
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Referencing Style contd..
Elements in the reference list
1. Author
2. Title of document
3. Date ( year of publication)
4. place of publication
5. Edition
6. Periodicity (volume/ issue/ part number)
7. Series
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Referencing Style contd..
Format of book in various system
APA: Surname, initial. (year). Title. Edition. Place: Publisher.
Vancouver: surname initials. Title. Edition. Place of
publication: publisher; year.
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Referencing Style contd..
Format of journal in various system
APA: surname, initial. (year). Title of article. Title
of journal in italics, volume number (issue/part), pages.
Vancouver: surname initials. Title of article. Title of
journal in abbreviated date/year;volume(issue):pages.
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The Vancouver system
Reference List- Book
Format: surname initial. Title. Edition. Place: Publisher; year. P.
page number. (series title; volume number).
Example: (one to six author)
1. Mehta RS, Mandal GN. Nursing concept: fundamental of
nursing. Kathmandu: Makalu Books and Stationers; 2005.
For chapter (in editorial works)
2. Yadav BK. In: Mehta RS, Mandal GN, editors. Nursing concept:
fundamental of nursing. Kathmandu: Makalu Books and
Stationers; 2005. p. 125 - 35.
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The Vancouver system contd..
B. Reference List- Book
More than six author
3. Fauci AS, Braunwald E, Kasper DL, Hauser SL,
Longo DL, Jameson JL, et al., editors. Harrison,s
principles of internal medicine. 17th ed. New york:
McGraw Hill, Medical; 2008.
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The Vancouver system contd..
Conferences
Format: surname Initials. Title of paper. In: Editor's surname
Initials, editor. Title of the Conference; Date of conference;
Place of publication: Publisher's name; Year of Publication. p.
page numbers.
Example:
Anderson JC. Current status of chorion villus biopsy. In:
Tudenhope D, Chenoweth J, editors. Proceedings of the 4th
Congress of the Australian Perinatal Society; 1986: Brisbane,
Queensland: Australian Perinatal Society; 1987. p. 190-6.
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The Vancouver system contd..
Journal
Format:
surname Initials, surname Initials. Title of article. Title
of Journal. [abbreviated] year/dateYear Month
date;Volume Number(Issue number):page numbers.
Example:
1. Pass RF, Zhang C, Evans A, Simpson T, Andrews W,
Huang M, et al. Vaccine prevention of maternal
cytomegalovirus infection. N Engl J Med 2009 Mar
19;360(12):1191-99.
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The Vancouver system contd..
Electronic Journal (online journal)
Format:
surname Initials. Title of article. Abbreviated Title of Journal [serial
online]. Year of publication Month day [cited Year Month Day];
Volume Number(Issue number):[about number of pages or screens].
Available from: URL:
Example:
Aylin P, Bottle A, Jarman B, Elliott, P. Paediatric cardiac surgical
mortality in England after Bristol: descriptive analysis of hospital
episode statistics 1991-2002. BMJ [serial on the Internet]. 2004 Oct
9;[cited 2004 October 15]; 329:[about 10 screens]. Available from: URL:
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/329/7470/825
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The Vancouver system contd..
Website
Format:
Author/Editor/Organisation's name . Title of the page
[homepage on the Internet]. Place of publication:
Publisher's name; [updated yr month day; cited yr
month day]. Available from:
Example:
HeartCentreOnline [homepage on the Internet]. Boca
Raton, FL: HeartCentreOnline, Inc.; c2000-2004
[updated 2004 May 23; cited 2004 Oct 15]. Available
from: http://www.heartcenteronline.com/
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Example of reference list written in Vancouver style:
Reference list
1. Dybvig DD, Dybvig M. Det tenkende mennesket.
Filosofi- og vitenskapshistorie med
vitenskapsteori. 2nd edition. Trondheim: Tapir
akademisk forlag; 2003.
2. Bick, J. 101 Thing You Need to Know about
Internet Law [electronic book]. New York: Three
Rivers Press; 2000 [cited 30 March, 2004]. Avalible
at: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ntnu/.
3. Beizer JL, Timiras, ML. Pharmacology and drug
management in the elderly. 2nd edition. In:
Timirad PS, ed. Physiological basis of aging and
geriatrics. Boca Raton: CRC Press; 1994. pp. 279-
284.
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19. Thank you
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APA STYLE GUIDE
For the Fifth Edition
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APA Citation Style
Journal or Magazine Article
(use for journals that start each issue with page one)
Wilcox, R. V. (1991). Shifting roles and synthetic women in Star trek:
The next generation. Studies in Popular Culture, 13(2), 53-65.
Dubeck, L. (1990). Science fiction aids science teaching. Physics
Teacher, 28, 316-318.
Journal or Magazine Article
(use for journals where the page numbering continues from issue to
issue)
Newspaper Article
Di Rado, A. (1995, March 15). Trekking through college: Classes
explore modern society using the world of Star trek. Los Angeles
Times, p. A3.
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Article from an Internet Database
(for more details, see the American Psychological Association's official
site)
Mershon, D. H. (1998, November-December). Star trek on the brain:
Alien minds, human minds. American Scientist, 86, 585. Retrieved
July 29, 1999, from Expanded Academic ASAP database.
Book
Okuda, M., & Okuda, D. (1993). Star trek chronology: The history
of the future. New York: Pocket Books.
Book Article or Chapter
James, N. E. (1988). Two sides of paradise: The Eden myth according
to Kirk and Spock. In D. Palumbo (Ed.), Spectrum of the fantastic
(pp. 219-223). Westport, CT: Greenwood
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Encyclopedia Article
Sturgeon, T. (1995). Science fiction. In The encyclopedia Americana
(Vol. 24, pp. 390-392). Danbury, CT: Grolier.
Website
(for more details, see the American Psychological Association's official
site)
Lynch, T. (1996). DS9 trials and tribble-ations review. Retrieved
October 8, 1997, from Psi Phi: Bradley's Science Fiction Club
Web site: http://www.bradley.edu/campusorg/psiphi/DS9/ep/
503r.html
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Reference List
Book with one author.
What is included in a Reference list entry:
 Author(s). (Date of publication). Title of book. City of
publisher: Publisher.
 Carter, R. (1998). Mapping the mind. Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press.
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