Cite Them Right is an online platform that can help you with your referencing. It provides clear guidance on how to reference with lots of examples.
Referencing is a way of acknowledging that you have used the ideas and written material belonging to another author. It shows that you have undertaken an appropriate literature search and that you have carried out appropriate reading in order to show your knowledge, understanding and analysis of your topic.
By referencing your sources you are demonstrating to your tutors the breadth of your research and reinforcing your own arguments. Using a wide range of sources is excellent academic practice and can improve your marks.
All information, ideas and quotations from anything you have consulted in order to write an assignment at University must be correctly referenced. Correct referencing enables your tutors and assessors to access your source material.
Particular referencing styles are preferred by particular academic disciplines because they work better with the kind of texts that are most commonly used in that discipline.
The University supports four main referencing styles, Harvard, MHRA, APA and OSCOLA.
With a few exceptions, most London Met courses use Harvard.
Find guidance for each of the styles below.
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Most of the courses at London Met use Harvard, with a few exceptions.
