1. Oliver Smith’s Attempt at spotting referencing mistakes within a
piece of text and bibliography.
BA (Hons) Sport Business Management
Referencing Exercise
The way in which sport is represented in the British media has a profound effect on how
people‟s perceptions are shaped (Briggs and Cobley 1998, Panorama 1995). In the
Wrong order In a game such as football, fans‟ identities, attitudes and behaviour can be
seriously influenced by what is represented in various tabloid newspapers such as The
Sun (1994, Blain and O‟Donnell). Date in the wrong place An example of this is the
media representation of the England v Germany game in Euro 1996, with emotive
headlines referring to war, encouraging people to see it not just as another football game
(Jackson 1997, quoted in p165 of Hubbard 1999) Page Number in the wrong place. This
can thus be viewed as a contributing factor in the trouble that ensued between the two
sets of fans. This nationalistic style of reporting is quite common within the tabloid press
(Thomas 2000). Comma after Thomas
Media coverage is also influential in forming opinions on crucial issues within the game.
Fullbrook‟s („Foreigner policy is killing us‟, 2000) Title not needed article on the problems
created by the introduction of foreign players into the English game is another example
of how public opinion may be swayed by reporters. This article indicates that the lack of
success of the national side can be laid at the feet of those players not actually playing
for the country. It is not only in football that this type of nationalism can be seen. After
Michael Schumacher‟s triumph in the 2000 Formula 1 world championship, the Daily
Star reporter John Murray (2000) focused upon the efforts of the British technical brain
behind the victory rather than on the driver himself: “Michael Schumacher‟s backroom
crew proved that British is best as the technical supremo Ross Brawn guided the
German ace to victory in the Australian Grand Prix winning with a landslide victory”
Quotation should be indented as it is more than a line (2000: p43). It is questionable
whether this report would have mentioned the British influence had Schumacher not
been successful.
It is also noticeable that, in the sports media, coverage of women‟s participation is often
overlooked (Caudwell 1999a).Comma needed after Caudwell More sophisticated
analysis of women‟s sport and leisure participation has emphasised the different leisure
experiences encountered by women (Hargreaves, Kelly, Marie and Minogue
1986).Should be Et al as more than three authors During a conference at Leeds
Metropolitan University, Powell noted that the lack of coverage given to women‟s football
was
symptomatic of the problems faced by women‟s sport Less than a line so no
need to indent (1998: p24)
in trying to gain the necessary exposure to promote participation for young women. In
addition, Caudwell (1999) B missing after date as it is second time Caudwell has been
used asserts that male-dominated media sources often present a skewed picture of the
reality of women‟s football participation. As a response, the government, via the
Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is working with other relevant
organisations to raise the profile of the sport in the UK

2. (http://www.culture.gov.uk/sport/professional_sport/womens_football.htm). Website not
needed with the text
Bibliography
Blain, N No full stop after initial & O‟Donnell, H. Game Without Frontiers:
Football, Identity & Modernity, Aldershot, Arena. 1994 Date in the wrong place
Cobley, P & Briggs, A Authors names in wrong order and full stop missing after
initials (1998) The Media: An Introduction, New York, Addison Wesley
Longman.
Caudwell, J. (1999a) Men, Modernity and the Media, London, Falmer Press Full
stop missing at the end
Caudwell, J No full stop after initial(1999b) Women‟s football in the United
Kingdom Title doesn‟t need to be underlined as its a journal, Journal of Sport
and Social Issues, 23 (4) pp.390-402.
DCMS (2003) Women’s Football [Internet], London, Department for Culture,
Media and Sport. Missing URL link
Fullbrook, D Full stop missing(2000) Foreigner policy is killing us, 11th November,
p.26 in Daily Star. In the wrong order, daily star should be before the date
Hargreaves, J et al All authors need to be listed in the bibliography(1986) Sport,
Culture and Media, Cambridge, Polity Press Full stop missing at the end
Thomas, P. (2000) Nationalism and sport, In: Carew, J. Gonzales, K. and Santos,
H. (eds.) Sport and Society, London, Polity Press, pp.134-151.
Jackson, D. (1997) Images of sport, London, Routledge. quoted in Hubbard, Y.
(1999), A Game of Two Halves, Harlow, Longman. No comma is needed after
the date
Murray, J. (2000). „Schu‟s Brit of alright‟, Daily Star, 9th October, p.43.
Sport and the Media. Panorama. (1995), BBC, 21st January, (video:VHS).
Location is missing
Powell, H. (1998), Representation of women‟s football in: Totten, M. (ed.)
Proceedings of the 3rd Football Media Conference, August 12-14, Leeds UK,
Leeds, Leeds Metropolitan University, pp.23-31 Missing full stop at the end
Bibliography not in alphabetical order