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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


Writing the report / assignment

Example of a book and its entry in a bibliography

Title page

Bluff Your Way

in

Publishing  

DOROTHY M. STEWART

Ravette Limited

Horsham


Imprint page

Published by Ravette Limited
3 Glenside Estate, Star Road,
Partridge Green, Horsham,
Sussex RH13 8RA

Copyright c. The Bluffer's Guides 1987
All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.

Series editor - Anne Tauté

Printing and binding - Cox and Wyman Ltd.


The bibliographic entry for the above example, Harvard style, will look like this:

STEWART, D. M. 1987. Bluff your way in publishing. Horsham: Ravette.