A guide to more advanced features and perculiarities of the Harvard Referencing standard used at Newcastle College, with worked examples ... and appalling puns!
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Referencing
Referencing means outlining what research you have
carried out for your assignment and acknowledging any
pieces of information or ideas that you have included which
are not your own.
It is important for several reasons:
It adds authority to your work by revealing
what background reading you have done,
It allows your reader to check your findings,
It avoids Plagiarism.
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Harvard Referencing
There are two things to do:
1. Include an “Author-Date” citation each
time you refer to a source, in the body of your
essay.
2. Compile a complete Reference List
of all the sources you used, at the end
of your work.
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1.“Author-Date” Citations
In your assignment, after every source that you use
write down the author’s surname and year when
the text was written as you go along.
Examples:
(Put this in brackets if it doesn’t fit naturally into your sentence.)
“Marley was dead to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.”
Charles begins A Christmas Carol with Jacob Marley’s
death.
(Dickens, 1843, p.1).
Dickens (1843)
“Author-Date”
Citation
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2. Reference Lists
At the end of your work, write a list of all the sources you’ve
used.
Be in Alphabetical order, by the Surname of the writer.
Include full details of who wrote each source, when it was
published, what it’s called and where it was published.
Follow strict formatting, sequence and punctuation rules.
This should…:
Who When What Where
Moore, Roger (2008) My word is my Bond. Oxford: O’Mara Books.
Sandys, Jon (2009) Movie mistakes. [Internet]. Available at:
<http://www.moviemistakes.com> [Accessed: 31/02/09].
Simmons, Gene (2006) Kiss and make-up. Journal of Rock. 22 (3), pp.10-13.
8. Who When What Where
Required Reference List Details and Sequence:
Volume 6 Number 5
(June 2006)
Journal of
Television
& Media
Library Services
Referencing a journal
Author Surname, Author Forename/initials (Year) Article title. Journal title.
Volume (number), page numbers.
Front cover Article pages
et al
34
36
British Soap
Operas
Corinne A. Shanstreet,
Emma Dale, Holly Oakes and
E. Stenders trace the history of the
serial drama.
Sometimes its hard to be a woman
Giving all your love to just one man
you'll have bad times and he'll have
good times, doing things that you
don't understand.
But if you love him you'll forgive him
Even though he's hard to
understand.
And if you love him Oh be proud of
him Cause after all he's just a man
Stand by your man. Give him two
arms to cling to and something arm
to come to. When nights are cold
and lonely. Stand by your man
And tell the world you love him.
Sometimes its hard to be a woman
Giving all your love to just one man
you'll have bad times and he'll have
good times, doing things that you
don't understand. But if you love
him you'll forgive him
Even though he's hard to
understand.
And if you love him Oh be proud of
him Cause after all he's just a man
Stand by your man. Give him two
arms to cling to and something arm
to come to. When nights are cold
and lonely. Stand by your man
And tell the world you love him.
35
Author SurnameAuthor Forename
Year
(2006)
Article title
British soap operas.
Journal
title
Journal of Television & Media.
Volume
number
6 (5),
Page numbers
pp.34-36.
Corinne A.Shanstreet,
9. Who When What Where
Required Reference List Details and Sequence:
Library Services
Referencing a website
Author Surname, Author Forename/initials (Year of last update) Title. [Internet].
Available from: < URL > [Accessed: Today’s date].
URL Author
Title
Year of last update
Newcastle College (2010) Talent : it’s in your DNA. [Internet].
Available from: <http://www.ncl-coll.ac.uk/> [Accessed: Today’s date ].
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Deliberate Mistakes
William Shakespeare: The Early Years
The common belief that England’s greatest playwright, William
Shakespeare, was born on St George’s Day, 21st April, 1564, is
perhaps too much of a coincidence to be true. As Groom et al
point out though, there is reliable evidence that a boy named
William, son of John Shakespeare, glove-maker, and Mary Arden,
his Catholic wife of 7 years, was baptized on 26th April of that year
at Holy Trinity Parish church, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Needs
Date
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Deliberate Mistakes
William Shakespeare: The Early Years (continued)
Truerod (cited in Dickson, 2005) speculates that the young boy
would’ve attended King’s New School, but Amanda Mibillard
(http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/educ&youth)
believes he would’ve begun his education around the age of six or
seven at the Stratford Grammar school. Even less is known about
Shakespeare’s early adulthood, though both Millibard (no date)
and “Rough Guide to Shakespeare” (2005) think that he may have
worked as a lawyer’s clerk, a schoolmaster, or even a butcher.
Write
Year, not
URL
Write Author’s
surname, not
Title
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Deliberate Mistakes
William Shakespeare: The Early Years (continued)
What we do know, however, is that in 1582 he was married to
Anne Hathaway, a farmer’s daughter “8 years older than him and
3 months pregnant with his child” (2001, p.19) and that by ten
years later he was not only acting on the London stage with his
own theatrical company, The Chamberlain’s Men (Soakes, 1995),
but also, as another critic points out, writing the first of his 37
celebrated plays and over 150 sonnets.
Needs a
Reference
Needs
Author’s
surname
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Deliberate Mistakes
Reference List
Andrew Dickson, (2005) Rough guide to Shakespeare. Penguin Books: York.
Soakes, R.A. (1995) The repertoire of Shakespeare’s company. The Review of
English Studies. 46 (182) pp.266-268.
Groom, Nick; Heminge, John; Condell, Henry; Knight, Edward & Kempe, Tom
(2001) Introducing Shakespeare. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Icon Books.
Millibard, Amanda (no date) Shakespeare: education and childhood.
Available at: <http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/youth > [Accessed:
31 November 2008].
Surname must come
before forename
City must come
before publisher
Write “et al” if 3+ Authors
Don’t swap between Bold and Italics titles
Needs the word
“[Internet]”
Needs to be Alphabetical Order
by Surname
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True or False
True False
1. The system of Referencing used at Newcastle College is
called the British Standard Referencing Method.
2. A “Bibliography” is exactly the same thing as a “Reference
List”.
3. If your quotation refers to another book, write a reference
for the original source, NOT the book where you read it in.
4. If you have two books written by the same author in the
same year, you should miss out the year.
5. You must reference all interviews that you have carried
out.
True False
True or False?
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True False
1. The system of Referencing used at Newcastle College is
called the British Standard Referencing Method.
2. A “Bibliography” is exactly the same thing as a “Reference
List”.
3. If your quotation refers to another book, write a reference
for the original source, NOT the book where you read it in.
4. If you have two books written by the same author in the
same year, you should miss out the year.
5. You must reference all interviews that you have carried
out.
True False
True or False?
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True or False
True False
1. The system of Referencing used at Newcastle College is
called the British Standard Referencing Method.
2. A “Bibliography” is exactly the same thing as a “Reference
List”.
3. If your quotation refers to another book, write a reference
for the original source, NOT the book where you read it in.
4. If you have two books written by the same author in the
same year, you should miss out the year.
5. You must reference all interviews that you have carried
out.
True False
True or False?
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True or False
True False
1. The system of Referencing used at Newcastle College is
called the British Standard Referencing Method.
2. A “Bibliography” is exactly the same thing as a “Reference
List”.
3. If your quotation refers to another book, write a reference
for the original source, NOT the book where you read it in.
4. If you have two books written by the same author in the
same year, you should miss out the year.
5. You must reference all interviews that you have carried
out.
True False
True or False?
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True or False
True False
1. The system of Referencing used at Newcastle College is
called the British Standard Referencing Method.
2. A “Bibliography” is exactly the same thing as a “Reference
List”.
3. If your quotation refers to another book, write a reference
for the original source, NOT the book where you read it in.
4. If you have two books written by the same author in the
same year, you should miss out the year.
5. You must reference all interviews that you have carried
out.
True False
True or False?
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True or False
True False
1. The system of Referencing used at Newcastle College is
called the British Standard Referencing Method.
2. A “Bibliography” is exactly the same thing as a “Reference
List”.
3. If your quotation refers to another book, write a reference
for the original source, NOT the book where you read it in.
4. If you have two books written by the same author in the
same year, you should miss out the year.
5. You must reference all interviews that you have carried
out.
True False
True or False?
20. … and you have been working like a dog!
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In Summary
Plagiarism means copying someone else’s work. It is taken very
seriously by the College.
You must properly reference all your assignments.
The Harvard system requires Author-Date citations in your
text and an alphabetical Reference List at the end.
There are established rules about detail, sequence and
punctuation.
The person who wrote this presentation has a dreadful sense of
humour!
(Lennon & McCartney, 1964)
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