harvard referencing

Question 1

what are types of intellectual property?

Answer 1

Patents
Copyright
Design rights
Trademarks
Confidential information

Question 2

Which type of intellectual property? is important for academic work?

Answer 2

copyright

Question 3

what is plagiarism?

Answer 3

“using the work of others without acknowledging your source of information or inspiration”

Question 4

what is cheating?

Answer 4

copying and colluding

Question 5

what is copying?

Answer 5

Using someone else’s work and pretending it is your own

Question 6

what is colluding?

Answer 6

Working together for mutual benefit, but with the intention to deceive a third party

Question 7

Good referencing directs your reader to the source of the information without cluttering the text

true or false

Answer 7

true

Question 8

what do you put to reference in your text?

Answer 8

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

Question 9

how do you reference with two authors?

Answer 9

put both nams eg

Psychological resilience in Olympic champions (Fletcher and Sarkar, 2012) has been….

Question 10

what should u put if theres more than two authors when referencing?

Answer 10

use et al and et al should always be in italics with a full stop after it

Question 11

where should your full stop be?

Answer 11

after the brackets

Question 12

when do we write the page number when referencing?

Answer 12

for direct quotes

Question 13

what should you do if you have more than one article by the same author?

Answer 13

use letters to distinguish eg (PwC, 2022a)
(PwC, 2022b)

Question 14

when referencing a journal what order must it be in?

Answer 14

Author
Year
Name of article
Place publihed and page

Question 15

how do you reference for authors?

Answer 15

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)

Question 16

must the year always be in brackets?

Answer 16

yes

Question 17

how should you write where to find it?

Answer 17

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

Question 17

should the title of the article have quotation marks?

Answer 17

yes

Question 18

example of a perfect reference

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

how should you reference for a book?

Answer 19

Author
Year
Name of book (italic) and which edition
Place
Colon
Publisher

Question 20

when can you not include a page number when referencing?

Answer 20

Websites

Question 21

how do you reference for a website

Answer 21

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

Question 22

how do you reference a newspaper?

Answer 22

Always needs name of newspaper
Always needs day and month
Then for print version – add page number, for web version add the URL

Question 23

how to reference for government?

Answer 23

Government department is the author (NOT Gov.uk)

Separate convention for legal/court transcripts