My Subject: Middlesex University Malta Library: Referencing

Referencing and Citation

It's really important to learn how to reference your work properly. A good piece of coursework is full of references to work that's been done by others before you, so good referencing habits will get you great marks. There are two parts to referencing:

Identify the reference in the text of your work. This is citation or in-text citation.
Provide a detailed list of all references you have used at the end of your work, this is a bibliography or reference list.

There are many different referencing styles. The most commonly used at Middlesex University is Harvard. For detailed information on how to cite and reference, please have a look at Cite Them Right basics.

Useful books

Cite Them Right by Richard Pears; Graham Shields This is the print version of Cite them Right with examples of how to cite and reference all types of different resources using Harvard and some in APA. For the online version follow the links to Cite them Right in the box above.
ISBN: 9781137273116
Publication Date: 2013-05-10
The complete guide to referencing and avoiding plagiarism by Neville, Colin
E-book and book version avilable.
MLA handbook for writers of research papers by Joseph Gibaldi

Referencing Style Guides

Cite Them Right Online is the standard source of information for citation and referencing. Please use this unless you are studying one of the subjects listed below.

RefWorks: reference management software

New RefWorks It includes Harvard Cite them Right as a referencing style. If your school specifies Cite them Right as the correct source of referencing, RefWorks will help you do this.
Legacy RefWorks Legacy RefWorks is more complex software better suited to postgraduate and doctoral research projects. We recommend Legacy RefWorks users stay with this until New RefWorks includes all the advanced features of the previous product. This is expected in January 2017.

Other reference management software

Only RefWorks is supported by Middlesex University, so if you haven't decided what to use, please look at RefWorks first. Alternatives are:

Endnote web via Web of Science Endnote is a well known alternative to RefWorks used at other universities. If you wish to have access you can use a free cut down version via Web of Science which is available via our Databases list at this link.
Mendeley Free reference manager and academic social network. Make your own fully-searchable library in seconds, cite as you write, and read and annotate your PDFs on any device.
Zotero Free Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. An online workshop on Zotero is available at: http://sites.google.com/site/zoteroworkshopsite/Home
Oxford University: Comparison of referencing software Oxford University have compiled this table of all the different reference management systems available, showing the key features and pluses and minuses of each system. If you are thinking about buying your own copy you will find this useful .