Referencing an Essay

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Referencing an Essay
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Quotation

• Quote to support your essay
• Quote a sentence or two
• After quote put surname of the author, the year
  of publication in brackets the page the quote
  can be found

• Put quotation marks around the quotation
• If quote is long then indent the whole quote
  leave spaces above below

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Examples of a quote

• Zinn and Dill (1996, p.321) explain the concerns
  of multiracial feminism as follows
• This perspective is an attempt to go beyond a
  mere recognition of diversity and difference
  among women to examine structures of domination

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Examples of a quote

• This perspective is an attempt to go beyond a
  mere recognition of diversity and difference
  among women to examine structures of domination
• Zinn and Dill Feminism 1996, p.321
• This shows that in unifying

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Examples of a quote

• This perspective is an attempt to go beyond a
  mere recognition of diversity and difference
  among women to examine structures of domination
  (Zinn and Dill 1996)

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Harvard Bibliography

• Bibliography is a list of all authors you used
  and goes at the end of the essay where full
  information is given

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The information should be presented as follows

• Authors surname initial
• Year of publication (brackets)
• Title of book ( in italics or underlined)
• Edition
• Place of publication
• Publisher

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Examples of Harvard Bibliography

• 1 author
• Calkins, L. (1983) Lessons from a Child,
  London Heinemann
• 2 authors
• Calkins, L. Kenway, J (1997) Answering Back
  Girls and Boys in Schools Sydney Allen Unwin
• More than 2 authors
• Field et al Alternative Energy Sources, 3rd Ed.
  New York Academic press

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Practise Time!!!

• You are using a book called Study Skills for
  Nurses. It is written by E. Whitehead and T.
  Mason. It is published by SAGE Publications Ltd
  who are based in London. It was published in
  2003.

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Websites

• Anything you read or download should be
  referenced in your work. Please ensure that you
  include the date on which you accessed the
  material

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Example

• http//www.foe.co.uk May 21st 2006

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Journals Magazines

• If you use newspapers/ magazines or journals they
  need to be referenced as well

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The information should be presented as follows

• Authors surname initial
• Year of publication (brackets)
• Title of article ( not in italics or underlined)
• Title of journal ( underlined or in italics)
• Volume nb and ( part nb)
• Page number (s)

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Example

• Bowen, B. (2001) The Life of British Trees
  Nature 68 (3), 23-37

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Practise time!

• You are using the journal of sociology. It is
  written by Claire Wallace and is entitled
  Household Strategies. It is to be found in
  volume 36, number 2 and pages 275 292. The year
  of publication is 2000

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Guess what

• We finished