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Referencing and Citation Management: About Referencing

A guide to referencing, referencing styles and citation management tools for UON students and researchers

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What is referencing? Why reference?

Referencing is a systematic method of acknowledging the sources you have used in your research assignment. 

It is a crucial aspect upholding academic integrity. Using other's work, data, or ideas without due referencing can lead to serious academic misconduct such as plagiarism.

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Effective referencing enables you to

  • demonstrate your research and support your argument
  • credit the authors for their contributions and research impact
  • provide further resources for your readers
  • practice academic integrity to avoid plagiarism

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How to reference? Need more info?

To reference correctly, you must adhere to the referencing styles specified by your discipline or course coordinators and include all necessary elements for each source.

Citation management tools can be particularly help if you have a large number of references to manage under a tight deadline. 

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  Related helpful resources:

  • Turnitin for your assessments
    A text-matching system which checks for plagiarism at UON

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