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Library Information and Digital Literacy: Citation and Referencing

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Citation and Referencing

Citation

  •  A citation or referencing style is a standardized way of referencing research you use in your academic work
  • A citation is when one paper explicitly refers to another paper. 
  • This has to be indicated in the text of the paper or research project report. The full references is given in the bibliography.
  • In academic writing, you must cite all the sources you quote directly, paraphrase, or summarize to:
    • Answer your research question
    • Defend your arguments using other researchers findings.
    • Citing is an assurance of meeting academic integrity standards by  acknowledging the efforts of other people that have contributed to your work.

Referencing

  • Referencing is to provide a complete citation with full bibliographic information of all sources used in the document at the end of your paper.
  • A references list is organized by the author's last name in alphabetic (A-Z) order.
  • Follow the 7ed APA referencing style as provided in the APA 7ED QUICK GUIDE.
  • E.g. Electronic Journal  format:

1.Author(s)., (Year).

2.Title of the article. Note: For works that are part of a greater whole (e.g. articles, chapter), use sentence case. Only the first word of the title and subtitle and proper nouns are capitalized.

3.Title of the Journal, Note: Italicize and capitalize each word in the journal.

4.Volume Note: Italicize the journal volume. If there is no issue, include a comma before the page range.

5.(Issue), Note: If there is a issue number in addition to a volume number, include it in parentheses.

6.Page range.

7.DOI (Digital Object Identifier)