harvard referencing Flashcards
what are types of intellectual property?
Patents
Copyright
Design rights
Trademarks
Confidential information
Which type of intellectual property? is important for academic work?
copyright
what is plagiarism?
“using the work of others without acknowledging your source of information or inspiration”
what is cheating?
copying and colluding
what is copying?
Using someone else’s work and pretending it is your own
what is colluding?
Working together for mutual benefit, but with the intention to deceive a third party
Good referencing directs your reader to the source of the information without cluttering the text
true or false
true
what do you put to reference in your text?
In the body of your text you only need to put:
Author(s) surname – no initials required
Year
Take care with the brackets
As follows:
Hand washing in the NHS has been a hot topic for decades (Perry, 2001).
Or
Perry (2001) discussed antibacterial hand wash gel
how do you reference with two authors?
put both nams eg
Psychological resilience in Olympic champions (Fletcher and Sarkar, 2012) has been….
what should u put if theres more than two authors when referencing?
use et al and et al should always be in italics with a full stop after it
where should your full stop be?
after the brackets
when do we write the page number when referencing?
for direct quotes
what should you do if you have more than one article by the same author?
use letters to distinguish eg (PwC, 2022a)
(PwC, 2022b)
when referencing a journal what order must it be in?
Author
Year
Name of article
Place publihed and page
how do you reference for authors?
Start with the surname then a comma
First names as initials, with full stops as they are abbreviations
For multiple authors, list ALL of them in the order they appear in the article (et al. not to be used in reference list)
must the year always be in brackets?
yes
how should you write where to find it?
The name of the journal (in italics)
Include the number and volume (in brackets)
Finally the page numbers
Each of the above separated by commas
Full stop at the end
should the title of the article have quotation marks?
yes
example of a perfect reference
Agha, N., Fairley, S. & Gibson, H. (2012) ‘Considering legacy as a multi-dimensional construct: The legacy of the Olympic Games’, Sport Management Review, 15(1), pp. 125-139.
how should you reference for a book?
Author
Year
Name of book (italic) and which edition
Place
Colon
Publisher
when can you not include a page number when referencing?
Websites
how do you reference for a website
The same information is required as for any other article ie author, year etc
include the web link (URL – uniform resource locator) and the date you accessed the web site
how do you reference a newspaper?
Always needs name of newspaper
Always needs day and month
Then for print version – add page number, for web version add the URL
how to reference for government?
Government department is the author (NOT Gov.uk)
Separate convention for legal/court transcripts
