In the School of Health and Social Care we use the APA 7th style of referencing and we have an APA 7th referencing guide, which you can use to help you format your references.
Referencing is an important skill at university that allows you to demonstrate the sources you have used to help you complete your assignments and acknowledge the work of others. If you include the work or ideas of others without referencing these, this is called plagiarism. Plagiarism is a form of academic misconduct, please see the university guidance on academic integrity for more information on how to avoid plagiarism.
You may also want to consider using reference management software to organise and manage the sources you are using, and help input citations and references into your assignments. You can learn more about these tools on our Reference Management guide.
Watch the video below to help understand basic referencing.
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We have also created the printable quick guide below which covers the basics of in-text citations and referencing.
This guide can be printed out and folded into a booklet. Use the pages in number order.
Use this version if you need to edit the formatting of the document to use it.
We would always recommend that you use Referencing in APA 7th style guide to make sure that you are referencing is accurate.
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