Transcript Bib and ref - Wiltshire College

Why and how
• 1. a list of source materials that are used or consulted in the
preparation of a work or that are referred to in the text.
Dictionary.com
• A reference list is everything you have referred to in your text
• Why do students need them?
Research skills –
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Proof you can find information
Background reading
Plagiarism
Different resources used to find information
Essay Writing
• Handling opposing opinions – compare and contrast
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What are you looking for – ideas, other people’s research
Where do you look? – catalogues, databases, e-journals
Use different resources ebooks ; online journals
Peer reviewed journals
Copyright, plagiarism
• Keep notes
• Knowing where guides are
• If the author fits naturally :
• As Chaplin (2010) said in comedy is a funny thing.
• Other wise : Comedy can be funny (Chaplin 2010)
• If there are 2 authors cite both : Smith and Jones (2011)
• (Smith et al. 2012) but add all to the reference list
• In the Harvard business review (Anon 2013), it was stated
• Loads of people like coming to Wiltshire College as it is
really good. The things they do are different and nearly
everyone gets a job.
• Ofsted says Wiltshire College is attended by nearly 5000
students (2008: p.31). It was rated amongst the top ten
Colleges in the UK (SSS, 2008: p.79)
Books
Author, Initials., year of pub. Title of book. Place of publication:
Publisher
Journal
Author, Initials., year of pub. Title of article. Title of journal.
Volume no (part) page numbers
Ebook
Author, Initials., Year. Title. [online]. (edition) Place of publication:
Publisher. Name of e-book collection. Available from:
Http://www.etc. [accessed dd/mm/yyyy]
Author’s surname/s, initials., Year. Title. Edition (if it is not the
first). Place of publication: Publisher.
Hill, D., 1999. German for beginners. 2nd ed.
London: Routledge.
If the book has a corporate author and no individual authors
corporate author, Year. Title. Place of publication: Publisher.
Open University, 1979. Electricity generation. 2nd ed.
Bletchley: Open University Press.
The volume number, issue number or date must be included for journals.
Author’s surname, initials., Year. Title of article. Title of journal,
Volume number (part), page numbers.
Harpo, T.H., 2010. Carbon monoxide poisoning in social
housing. Industrial and engineering chemistry, 41(3), p.25
Newspaper article
Author’s surname, initials. (or newspaper title if author unknown),
Year. Title of article. Title of newspaper, Day and Month, page
number/s and column letter.
Kristensen, T., 2004. The Le Mans legend. Guardian, 20 June, p.30b.
Ebook
• Hardy, G. and Laurel, A., 2011. Laughing at chaos. [Online].
3rd edition. Winchester: Book Press. Available from:
http://www.madeup.com [Accessed 20 September 2012]
• Ejournal
• Chaplin, C., 2010. How to be a comedian. Journal of Comic
Arts 23(2), pp. 23-30. [online]. InfoTrac. Available from:
http://www.wiltshire.ac.uk/learningresources/onlineresources/d
efault.asph [Accessed 21 September 2012]
Balir, T., 2011. Politics. [online]. Available from:
http://www.politics.com [Accessed 21 September]
To use or not to use
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Authors
Title
Date updated
links
If you refer to a book that has been quoted in another work,
then cite both in the text.
The first study of juvenile criminal behaviour (Pirro 1926, cited by
McNish 2000, p.47) demonstrated that…
But only list the work by McNish i.e. the work that has been seen
But there will always be oddities
• Please ask any LRC staff for help or email the LRC here
• Use HE guide from your university
• Check out the bob and ref section on Signpost here