Reference Management

Reference Management

The best way to ensure you sustain good referencing practices is to manage your reference sources

Reference Management software enable you to archive your sources and then to use them according to the referencing style required by the publisher

Good referencing principles

Referencing is the research practice that researchers:

• acknowledge the contribution of other authors in your own work

• respect the intellectual property rights of the author

• enables the readers of your work to discover and trace the sources of information you have used

Using other sources in your work

When you use other sources in your work, you are showing that:

• you have researched the topic by reading topical knowledge written by other experts in your discipline

• you have good research skills

• you use library sources (largely peer-reviewed)