{"id":535,"date":"2016-05-03T11:15:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T22:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/?p=535"},"modified":"2016-05-03T11:15:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T22:15:43","slug":"referencing-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/2016\/05\/03\/referencing-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Referencing tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Make sure you know which <a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/referencing\/referencing-styles.php\">referencing style<\/a> you should be using. If your lecturer has not specified a style, then you may be able to choose. If you are allowed to choose, then APA style is a good choice, as there is a lot of help available regarding it on <a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/\">OWLL<\/a>. It is also the most commonly used referencing style at Massey.<\/li>\n<li>You need to <a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/referencing\/why-reference.php\">reference because<\/a> you need to credit the originators of the ideas you are referring to, enable others to locate the source, and to avoid <a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/referencing\/plagiarism.php\">plagiarism<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Unless your assignment instructions specify otherwise, <a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/referencing\/what-is-referencing.php\">you need to include a reference<\/a> every time you refer to an idea\/argument\/theory\/framework\/fact\/evidence\/author\/source. The only exception to this general rule is <a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/referencing\/common-knowledge.php\">common knowledge<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>References are needed both <a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/referencing\/what-is-referencing.php\">in the text<\/a> (where you refer to the source) and in the <a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/referencing\/what-is-referencing.php\">reference list<\/a> at the end of the assignment.<\/li>\n<li>If you have trouble with formatting and you\u2019ve got a lot of assignments, consider using the referencing software <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massey.ac.nz\/massey\/research\/library\/help-and-instruction\/endnote\/endnote_home.cfm\">EndNote<\/a> (which is free for Massey students). It can save you time as it does a lot of the formatting for you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For further help:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can ask questions referencing in the <a href=\"http:\/\/stream.massey.ac.nz\/mod\/forum\/view.php?id=169\">Academic Q&amp;A<\/a> forum.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/main\/referencing.php\">http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/main\/referencing.php<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make sure you know which referencing style you should be using. If your lecturer has not specified a style, then you may be able to choose. If you are allowed to choose, then APA style is a good choice, as there is a lot of help available regarding it on OWLL. It is also the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-referencing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}