Structure of the reference for Bibliography: Surname, Initial (Year book was published) ‘Title of Chapter’, in Editors name (ed.) Title of book. Place of publication: Publisher, page numbers of chapter Example reference: Burman, M. and Geisthorpe, L. (2017) ‘Feminist criminology: Inequalities, powerlessness and justice’ in Liebling, S., Maruna, S. McAra, L. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Criminology. 6th edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 213-238.

1. Referencing and finding your way
around the library
RachelWhite
Library Information Consultant for Electronic Engineering

2. What is referencing and why do I need
to do it?
• Acknowledge when using
someone’s work
• To make clear to the reader that
this idea is not your own
• Demonstrate the breadth of
reading, viewing and individual
research
• Support your argument
• An academic skill for all levels
• To allow you, your tutor and other
readers to retrieve items that you
have mentioned
• To avoid accusations of plagiarism

3. What is Plagiarism and how to avoid
it?

4. What is plagiarism?
• Passing off as your own a piece of work
that is partly or wholly the work of
another student
• Citing and referencing sources that you
have not used
• Quoting, summarising or paraphrasing
material in your assignment without
citing the original source
• 'Recycling' a piece of your own work that
you have previously submitted for
another module or course (i.e. self-
plagiarism).
(Palgrave Study SkillsOnline, 2018)

5. Avoiding plagiarism
• Take effective notes
• Don’t leave assignments
to the last minute
• Keep a note of the
sources you have used
• Reference accurately and
correctly

6. Importance of Referencing
6

7. Harvard Referencing

8. Harvard Referencing consists of…

9. InText Citations – when are they
needed?
• When you quote someone word for word
• E.g. ‘Charge is an amount of electrical energy and can be either positive or
negative’ (Storey, 2017, p. 5)
• When you paraphrase someone i.e. putting something into your own words
• E.g. Storey (2017, p. 5) states that a charge can be positive or negative and is an
amount of electrical energy
• When you summarise e.g. sum up someone’s argument, whole theory/article
• E.g. One important study (Harrison, 2007) looks closely at the historical and
linguistic links between European races and cultures

10. Activity

11. "To Cite or Not to Cite,
That is the Question…"
Time for an interactive quiz!
• A scenario will be posted on
the screen, discuss briefly with
your neighbours whether you
need to cite or not...
• If “YES, CITE”, hold up the
green card,
• If “NO! NO CITE!”, hold up the
red card!
Quiz

12. Scenario 1:
Copying text, image, graph or data from another
source
CC BY: https://www.flickr.com/photos/katerha/5169694908
https://www.flickr.com/photos/50457344@N00/2124730152/

13. Scenario 2:
Mention a fact which is commonly known
CC BY: https://www.flickr.com/photos/markusspiske/14441758628
https://www.flickr.com/photos/1eyedz/5149519596

14. Scenario 3:
Discuss the ideas or research of another
person in your own words
CC BY:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lastyearsgirl_/7765134416/

15. Scenario 5:
Write about something you know you’ve
read about in several different sources
CC BY: https://www.flickr.com/photos/75862793@N06/6816056519

16. How to reference different
resources?

17. How to reference a book
Structure of the reference for Bibliography:
Surname, Initial (Year book was published) Title of book. Place of
publication: Publisher.
Example reference:
Shinichiro, S. and Mochizuki, M. (2016) Skyrmions in Magnetic Materials.
Cham : Springer International Publishing.

18. How to reference a chapter in a book
Structure of the reference for Bibliography:
Surname, Initial (Year book was published) ‘Title of Chapter’, in Editors name
(ed.) Title of book. Place of publication: Publisher, page numbers of chapter
Example reference:
Wengenmayr, R. (2013) ‘Solar Cells – an Overview’ inWegenmayr, R. and Buhrke,
T. (eds.) Sustainable energy: sustainable concepts for the energy change. 2nd edn.
Weinheim :Wiley, pp. 5-15.

19. How to reference an academic journal
Structure of the reference:
Surname, Initial (Year journal issue was published) ‘Title of article’,
Title of journal,Volume number (issue number), page range of
article
Example reference:
Stella, A. andTrevisan, F. (1998) ‘A model for the dynamic magnetic
field identification at the first wall of the RFX machine in presence
of passive conductors’, IEEETransactions on Magnetics, 34(5), pp.
2648-2651.

20. How to reference a website
Structure of the reference: Author/Organisation (Year) Title of web
document or web page. Available at: web site address (Accessed
date).
Example reference:
MIT (2014) The future of solar energy. Available at:
http://energy.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/MITEI-The-
Future-of-Solar-Energy.pdf (Accessed: 12th October 2018).

21. ActivityTime!

22. Bibliography
MIT (2014) The future of solar energy. Available at:
http://energy.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/MITEI-The-Future-of-Solar-
Energy.pdf (Accessed: 12th October 2018).
Shinichiro, S. and Mochizuki, M. (2016) Skyrmions in Magnetic Materials. Cham : Springer
International Publishing.
Stella,A. andTrevisan, F. (1998) ‘A model for the dynamic magnetic field identification at
the first wall of the RFX machine in presence of passive conductors’, IEEETransactions on
Magnetics, 34(5), pp. 2648-2651.
Wengenmayr, R. (2013) ‘Solar Cells – an Overview’ in Wegenmayr, R. and Buhrke,T. (eds.)
Sustainable energy: sustainable concepts for the energy change. 2nd edn. Weinheim :
Wiley, pp. 5-15.

23. 1) Must be in alphabetical order by the first author's surname
2) All references or citations used within the assignment must be listed at the
end with any other reading you may have done to supplement the
assignment.
3)The bibliography always comes at the end of your assignment
REMEMBER 1THING ABOUT
REFERENCING: BE CONSISTENT
THROUGHOUT!
Bibliography

24. 1.Your student handbook is very good!
2.There is an excellent book called "CiteThem Right“
3. Check your subject guide and student handbook for
guides
4. Always have a guide close to hand
5. Remember to be consistent!
Some really helpful guidance on referencing...

25. Any
questions?

26. 2
Don't forget:
• Rachel.white@rhul.ac.uk
• http://libguides.rhul.ac.uk/
ElectronicEngineering
• 1-2-1 Sessions