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“ If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants” Isaac Newton (letter to Robert Hooke, 5 February 1676) Poussin N (1658) Paysage avec Orion aveugle cherchant le soleil Metropolitan Museum of Art

“ If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants” Isaac Newton (letter to Robert Hooke, 5 February 1676) Poussin N (1658) Paysage avec Orion aveugle cherchant le soleil Metropolitan Museum of Art Yes, this needs to be referenced too…

[object Object],2. I learned this from Karl Popper who, in his autobiography, wrote of ‘my custom, whenever I am invited to speak in some place, of trying to develop some consequences of my views which I expect to be unacceptable to the particular audience. For I believe that there is only one excuse for a lecture: to challenge. It is the only way in which speech can be better than print’. [Popper K Unended Quest. Illinois: Open Court Publishing Company, 1976, p.124]

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That quotation was from; ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],The structure of the flag is where the system gets its name from; Author/Date (Also known outside the US as the “Harvard system” – but no formal connection with Harvard University)

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],The “flag” in the text; Author’s surname and date The full reference at the end Hadfield P and Atherton J (2008) “Beyond compliance: accountability, assessment and anxiety, and curricular structures to help students engage with troublesome knowledge” in C Rust (ed.) Improving Student Learning; through the curriculum Oxford; Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development 2009 pp 158-170

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The full citation ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Separated onto different lines for clarity here; in practice on normal lines. All the authors, with initials (conventions about punctuation vary, chiefly so journal editors can prevent authors from submitting exactly the same manuscript to several journals)

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The full citation ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],If you refer to several items from the same author in the same year, identify them (both in the flag and the citation) as “a”, “b”…

The full citation ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],The title! But it’s not that simple. We’ll come back to that

The full citation ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Place of publication. Why? Because there may be different editions with subtle variations in spelling, local examples, currency, pagination, etc.

The full citation ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Publisher, at that location, although…

The full citation ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],In this case, it is also a free download from the web, so show that, including the date you checked its availability

The full citation ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],That’s fine for a simple book, but…

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The full citation ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],The title! But it’s not that simple. We’ll come back to that ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Paper in a collection… ,[object Object],This is the volume you can find in the library catalogue or on the shelf. It’s conventionally in italics or underlined .

Paper in a collection… ,[object Object],This is the article you would look for inside the volume; conventionally the title is in quotation marks.

Article in a journal… ,[object Object],This is the volume you can find in the library catalogue or on the shelf. It’s conventionally in italics or underlined .

Article in a journal… ,[object Object],This is the article you would look for inside the volume; conventionally the title is in quotation marks.

Article in a journal… ,[object Object],The standards for citing volumes and editions are highly inconsistent and a nightmare. Which is OK because they don’t matter much in practice.

It’s in the Handbook! Appendix 2 And on-line at ATHERTON J S (2008) Doceo; Assignment Presentation Guidelines [On-line] UK: Available: h ttp://www.doceo.co.uk/academic/assignment_presentation.htm Accessed: 3 October 2009

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