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An illustrated guide to compiling your references: • Books • Web Pages • E-books and E - m agazines • Magazines • Newspaper articles • Television Programmes • Online video sharing platforms • Government Publications Referencing

In text referencing

Through your assignment: • Direct quotes and paraphrasing - the author then date in round brackets and page number, e.g. David E. Newton (2020) pg64 "As early as 1965, a group of climate scientists expressed their concerns about global warming in a report commissioned by President Lyndon Johnson, 'Restoring the Quality of Our Environment.'" • Summarising - author & date in round brackets, e.g. Climate change is not a new issue, with prominent people raising their concerns about the problem from earlier than the 1970s as stated by (David E. Newton 2020)

Books

Author(s) / Editor(s )

Title (in italics)

Date of publication

Edition - if other than 1 st

Place of publication

Publisher

Web Pages

Author

Year

Title (in bold, italics or underlined)

Yau, T (2001) Dragon Project . Available at: http:www.geocities.com/dragon project2000/ (Accessed: 14 March 2010).

Available from - URL of document

Date last accessed

Notes : If a web page has no author use the title first, then the year and then ‘Available at: ……’. If a web page has no dates use (no date) to replace the year in brackets. For examples and further help, see the book ‘Cite them Right’ copies available to borrow in the Library.

e-books &

e-magazines

ebook

In the latest edition of ‘Cite them Right’ by Pears and Shields it says, “When an ebook looks like a printed book, with publication details and pagination, you should reference as a printed book” (Pears and Shields, Pg. 31).

Therefore, write as a printed book (see ‘in text referencing’).

ejournal

Title of Journal (in italics)

Author(s) of article

Date of publication

Title of article

Volume no. & part no. & page no.s

Bright, M. (1985) ‘The poetry of art’, Journal of the History of Ideas , 46(2), pp. 259 277, JSTOR [Online] Available at: http://uk.jstor.org/ org/ org/(Accessed: 16 February).

Web address of the article and date it was accessed

Magazines

Author(s)

Title of article

Date of publication

Title of Journal (in italics)

Volume no. (& part no if available)

Page numbers

Newspaper articles Electronic

Author(s)

Date of publication

Title of article

Kollewe, J. (2023) ‘Grocery inflation falls to lowest rate this year in Great Britain but is still at 16.5%’, The Guardian , 20 June. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/20/gr ocery supermarket inflation great britain eases remains high kantar (Accessed: 20 June 2023).

Title of newspaper (in italics)

Web address of the article and date it was accessed

Television

programmes

Title of programme (in italics)

Year of transmission

Transmission channel

The Apprentice (2019) BBC One Television, 23 June, 21:00.

Date of transmission (day/ month) time of transmission

Programmes viewed via streaming services (including catch up services e.g. BBC iPlayer and subscription services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime)

Title of programme (in italics)

Year of broadcast

Name of channel

Panorama: The Antidepressant Story (2023) BBC One, 19 June, 20:00. Available at: BBC iPlayer (Accessed: 20 June, 20:00 2023).

Date of transmission (day/ month) time of transmission

Available at: Name of streaming service (Accessed: date)

Online Video

sharing platforms

(including YouTube, Vimeo, IGTV)

Name of person/organisation posting video

Year video was posted

Title of programme (in italics)

Channel 4 News (2019) Brexit explained: what happens when the UK leaves the EU? 8 June. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eoDwvl0QGk (Accessed: 9 June 2019).

Available at: Name of streaming service (Accessed: date)

Date uploaded (if available)

Government

Publications

Year

Name of government department

Title (in italics)

Department of Health (2008) Health inequalities: progress and next steps. Available at: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/ PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_085 307 (Accessed: 18 June 2018).

Available from - URL of document

Date last accessed

Extra Resources

‘Cite them right: the essential referencing guide’ by Pears and Shields. Copies are available to borrow in the Library and online through Digital Bookshelf. Sometimes you may have to reference a wide variety of resources such as blogs, emails or You Tube videos or you may find that a resource doesn’t have an author, Cite Them Right has examples of how to reference these resources and lots more.

Digital Bookshelf

On Digital Bookshelf each book, journal, eBook and article has your reference ready made for you. Just click on the three dots on the right of your result and then click ‘Cite’. You can change the referencing style to the one you use. ‘Harvard’ is the style mostly use in Runshaw. Always check your reference with this guide to see if additional information is required.

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