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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

Conference Proceedings
Author(s). "Title of paper." In Title of proceedings, edited by, Page numbers. Place: Publisher, Date.

Chicago (B)	Winger, D. "Society in an Industrial Revolution." In Immigrants in Industrial America, 1850-1920: Proceedings of the National Immigration Society Held in Philadelphia, PA 1-3 November 1973, edited by Richard L. Ehrlich, 22-34. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
(N)	1. D. Winger, "Society in an Industrial Revolution," in Immigrants in Industrial America, 1850-1920: Proceedings of the National Immigration Society Held in Philadelphia, PA 1-3 November 1973, ed. Richard L. Ehrlich (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), 35.
Notes	Note the differences between the note and the bibliography entry with regards to commas, full stops and brackets. Also note the difference between the "In" in the bibliography entry and the "in" in a note. "edited" in bibliography entry and "ed." in a note.

(Source: http://www.lib.usm.edu/~instruct/guides/turabian.html)

(B) = bibliography entry
(N) = note (footnote)

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