Referencing Guide: Home

There are several different styles of referencing available. Following are the most popular styles at Salesian College:

• Harvard 
• APA (American Psychological Association)

Harvard and APA Styles are also known as Author-date, parenthetical referencing which involves the use of a partial reference contained within parenthesis as in-text markers (such as the author and date). The complete reference is then included in a list on the last page of the document.

What is referencing?

Referencing is a standardized method of acknowledging sources of information and ideas that you have used in your assignments, in a way that uniquely identifies their source. Direct quotations, facts and figures, as well as ideas and theories, from both published and unpublished works, must be referenced.

Why do I need to reference?

• Referencing is necessary to support your arguments/ideas.
• To verify quotations, to enable readers to follow-up and read more fully the cited author's arguments/ideas. 
• If you have used anything in your work that was originally written or created by someone else, including graphs, statistics, images etc. you must reference it. 
• Similarly, any ideas you have paraphrased or summarized must be referenced.
• To avoid plagiarism.  Plagiarism is completely unacceptable. 

Free Online Reference Generators :

• BibMe
• Citation Machine
• Cite This For Me (this tool can generate in-text citations)
• EasyBib
• ResearchoMatic