Referencing

While writing an essay a student will have to collection information from different sources. what referencing do is, it acknowledge the source where the student get information from. basically it is the way of giving credit to the original author of the information newcastle (2008).

http://www.newcastle.edu.au/Resources/Divisions/Academic/Library/information-skills/foundation-portal/referencing-whatis.html

Why need to reference?

According to emedia.rmit (2011),

• The point and the argument is strengthen.

• Can identify weather its appropriately summarized and quoted correctly.

• Avoid plagiarism.

• it also can help the reader to find out the original source of the piece of  information.

http://emedia.rmit.edu.au/isearch/use/what-referencing

Styles of referencing

According to latrobe (2008),

• American Psychological Association style (APA)

• Harvard style

• Footnoting style

• Numbering style

http://www.latrobe.edu.au/asu/assets/downloads/REFERENCING06.pdf

Harvard Referencing style

if referencing from :-

website

Author's surname, initials, (year of publication), title of the article,website name, [online], Available from URL, [Accessed on DATE].

Journal article online

Author's surname, initials, (year of publication), title of the article, title of the journal, [online] volume number, (part number/month), page number, Available from URL, [Accessed on DATE].

online books

Author's surname, initials, (year of publication), title, [online], city of publication: publisher, Available from URL, [Accessed on DATE].

Book

Author's surname, initials, (editor), (year of publication), book title, series title and volume, edition, place of publication, (page number)