citing and referencing

Question 1

What is citing?

Answer 1

The way a writer refers from the text to the sources used

Question 2

What is referencing?

Answer 2

The process of creating a bibliography description of each source

Question 3

What different methods of citation are there?

Answer 3

APA, Vancouver, OSCALA, chicago MNRA, Harvard, British standard numeric

Question 4

How do you reference one author in a book?

Answer 4

(Surname, Year published)

example - smith, 1998

Question 5

How do you reference two authors from a book ?

Answer 5

surname and surname, year published)

eg. smith and jones (1998) or smith and jones 1998

Question 6

How do you cite more than two authors from a book?

Answer 6

surname et al. year publication

eg smith et al. (1999) or (smith et al. 1999)

Question 7

How do you reference a page number from a book?

Answer 7

surname, (year publication, p.)

example - smith (1999, p6)

Question 8

How do you quote?

Answer 8

use speech marks

Question 9

How do you show you have added your own word to the quotation?

Answer 9

Use square brackets [ ]

Question 10

How do you reference a ordinary journal article?

Answer 10

Author, Year of publication, Title of journal article, title of journal in italics, volume number, (part number), page number(s) of article

Question 11

Example of journal article refrence?

Answer 11

Baker, G.E and reese, B.E (1993) Chiasmatic course of temporal retinal axons in the developing ferret.Journal of comparative neurology, 330(1), 95-104

Question 12

How do you cite a e journal online?

Answer 12

Author, Title of journal article, Title of journal in italics, Date(year, month date) [epub ahead of print] accessed at: then give URL

Question 13

How do you reference for a published conference proceedings?

Answer 13

Author/editor, (year of publication) organisation, Title in italics, [lace of publication, publisher, page numbers

Question 14

How do you reference media - DVD?

Answer 14

DVD, (year), title,[video ] published date

Question 15

how do you reference CD-roms?

Answer 15

Author, (Year of publication), title of information used, CD-ROM title in italics, [CD-ROM], place of publication, publisher

Question 16

How do you reference FILM?

Answer 16

Title of film, (date) [film], director, place of production and production company

Question 17

How do you reference news paper article?

Answer 17

Reporter, (day, month and year of publication), title of article, title of newspaper in italics, page numbers of article

Question 18

How do you reference on line copy?

Answer 18

Reporter, (day, month and year of publication), title of article, title of newspaper in italics, [online] , page numbers of article, available from URL [date of access]

Question 19

How do you reference a lecture?

Answer 19

Author, (Year), Title of presentation/lecture, presented at the conference/ meeting title in italics, conference/meeting location

Question 20

give example of a lecture reference?

Answer 20

Douglas, R.H. (2007) ocular tissue types(italics), Biological Science lectures, City University London

Question 21

How do you reference online versions?

Answer 21

Author, (year), Title of presentation or lecture in italics, Presented at the conference/ meeting title conference / meeting location, [ONLINE], available from: URL, [Date of access

Question 22

How do you reference a thesis?

Answer 22

Author, (Date of publication), title in italics, type of thesis, academic institution

Question 23

How do you reference www?

Answer 23

Author/Editor/Corporate author, (Year), title in italics, [online], available from:URL, [Date of access]

Question 24

What is a bibliography?

Answer 24

All items you have found useful in background and those cited in the text not necessary