Importance of Referencing

Referencing is an essential part of academic writing, be it a dissertation by a student, a thesis or a journal paper by a research scholar.

This blog will aid students and research scholars and learn how to include a reference for a scholarly research article.

As a student in, say, a management course or a research scholar, it is imperative to use the correct referencing style. A scholar may face various issues due to incorrect or inappropriate use of referencing style. Some of them are as follows:

• Unclear thinking, intellect laziness or ignorant

• Unaware of the correct referencing style to use

• Mixing up various referencing style in the dissertation, thesis or research paper

• Desk reject by top journals if the incorrect referencing style is used

• Using little to no citation, fail to demonstrate your writing and thoughts

• Your thesis guide will form an opinion of a non-scholarly writing

Correct referencing will reflect the following points:

• • • You have been thorough and rigorous work in your academic research

    • Shows your understanding of the topic of research

    • Build your credibility as a scholar

    • Your ability to synthesise knowledge by drawing appropriate ideas

    • Recognition of different points of view

    • It authenticates the originality of the source

    • Project a high degree of maturity

    • Using extant literature that leads up to your study

Reference to use

Sankaran, R., & Chakraborty, S. (2021). Why customers make mobile payments? Applying a means-end chain approach. Marketing Intelligence & Planning, 39(1), 109–124. https://doi.org/10.1108/MIP-12-2019-0622.

How to read or include the details of the reference

(elements for a journal article)