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Before you start

STEP 1: STARTING OUT

STEP 2: FINDING

STEP 3: EVALUATE

STEP 4: LEGAL USE

STEP 5: COMMUNICATE

- Writing a report/assignment

Consulting information sources

Reading and making notes

Preparing the bibliography

In-text referencing

Compiling the bibliography

Example

Elements required

Harvard style

APA style

Vancouver style

Chicago style

Abbreviations for USA

Other links

Writing the first draft

Revising the assignment

Writing final draft

Collating the assignment

Checking the final draft

Example

- Tips for presentations

- Tips for posters

- Tips for brochures

- Tips for displays

- E-communication guidelines

- Writing styles

Secondary source (one source cited in another source)

Author(s). (Date). Title: subtitle. Journal Title, Volume, Page references.

APA

Coltheart, M., Curtis, B., Atkins, P., & Haller, M. (1993). Models of reading aloud: Dual-route and parallel-distributed-processing approaches. Psychological Review, 100, 589-608.

Notes

A study was done by Seidenberg and McClelland. Coltheart et al later refers to this study in their article titled "Models of reading aloud..." (The study is cited in Coltheart et al.). The secondary source (the second source) should be given in the reference list. When the cited work (the first work) was not read then the in-text reference will look like this: Seidenberg and McClelland's study (as cited in Coltheart, Curtin, Atkins & Haller, 1993) confirmed that ...

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