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References and Citation
Comprehensive guideline on how to do referencing and
citation in essay/reports
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What format of reference should be used? What is Harvard referencing?
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Is referencing and citation a must?
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Where to use citations (and references for)?
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Step 1: Go to the website
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Step 3: Click on books
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Step 5: Complete the process by clicking next and adding to references
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Step 7: For websites, though, Copy the URLs of the websites
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Step 9: Click the copy and paste section and select the whole text
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How to do citations?
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How many references should be made?
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General Dos and Don’ts
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It also enhances the reliability of the report and your report can achieve up to 10-15% of higher
marks just because of how well you can do it
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What format of reference should be used? What is
Harvard referencing?
In doing UK assignments, you must do it in Harvard format
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You can see here a reference made of a journal article, which clearly indicates the whereabouts
of the journal
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While references are the complete list of the acknowledgments at the end of the report, citations
are used in the main body of the report, with the things you write
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For example, you are using a statistics about market position of a company, while you will be
putting the reference at the end of the report about it, you should also make in-text citation
just next to the line in the main body such as this-

This is a citation within your main body of the
report
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This is the snap of a full reference, referring
to the full details of Morrison’s work
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Is referencing and citation a must?
Colleges in the UK have made it mandatory to use a list of references to be used and cited in
the main body to acknowledge the work of others
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Do they have to be authentic?
There is no straight cut answer to this
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Also, it is not practical to use authentic definitions, as we make it up ourselves most of the time!
However, when you make up a theory in your own words, try to make reference and cite it
using this of a book or journals of the same topic name for your theory
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On the other hand, when you want to make reference to the company website/ market position
information, you must make it authentic reference!

Where to use citations (and references for)?
You should NOT use reference for some clear-cut sentences which are clearly your own words
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suggestion, problem identification)
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citethisforme
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 You just need to type the topic name and you can select the references
Step 1: Go to the website

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Step 2: Tick the Harvard format on

Step 3: Click on books

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Step 4: Type in the topic name and search

Step 5: Complete the process by clicking next and adding to references

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Here you can manipulate the year or name (See Do’s and Don’ts section)

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Step 6: Do the same for journals and websites

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Step 7: For websites, though, Copy the URLs of the websites

Step 8: Paste and complete the process

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Congratulations! You have the full reference list now on clipboard-

Step 9: Click the copy and paste section and select the whole text

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Step 10: Copy and paste it at the end of your word file

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How to do citations?
Look at the reference first-

Figure 4: Harvard referencing format

You can make citation from here in two ways, both ways include just the surname and year of
the journal/book/website
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For example,
for the above reference, the citation will beCitation
(Ball, 2012)
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Space needed for the bracket and full
stop needed after the bracket

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Method 2: Without bracket
Under this method also, you just take the name and year, but just use the bracket for the year
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Comma needed, followed
by space

How many references should be made?
References vary as per the level of work
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In that case, you
must use a greater number of references
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Yet, you need to make
a subjective judgment in some cases
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General Dos and Don’ts
 You should only citations for which you have made the full reference
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 You can use citations made from one reference for more than one time!
 Even if you cite a quote from someone, it has to be paraphrased
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 Double check to make sure that the reference is in Harvard format
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The teacher will never find it out!
 Suppose the topic is international marketing, you should take references fromo marketing book
o international marketing book
o journal on international marketing
o company website
o industry data from a news article
o any other topic mentioned within the tasks (such as limitations of international
marketing)
 You must avoid the websites of third parties like- Wikipedia, tutor2you, Scribd,
UKEssays!
 Sometimes after pasting the reference and citations, they are no longer in times new
roman, 12 sizes with 1
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 Not always the last line has of a para has to be cited, it can be any line

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