Referencing and Sources

Question 1

What do academic journals have and what process do they use?

Answer 1

→ Editor who is a distinguished researcher

→ Use refereeing

Question 2

What does the academic journal send your research paper to?

Answer 2

→ 2 or more independent referees

Question 3

What do referees check?

Answer 3

→ No experimental mistakes
→ Proper controls have been done
→ Results are correctly described
→ Conclusions reflect the evidence

Question 4

What does certainty come from?

Answer 4

→ putting many pieces of evidence together

Question 5

What is a review article?

Answer 5

→ An expert describes their current understanding of the field with reference to the primary research paper

Question 6

When you start to study a specialized research area what 2 things do you use?

Answer 6

→ Review articles to get a solid overview

→ Individual research papers to weigh the evidence

Question 7

Why do you reference?

Answer 7

→ give credit
→ Avoid plaigiarism 
→ show where information came from 
→ Allow readers to check if information is reliable 
→ tell readers where to find more

Question 8

What do you not need to reference?

Answer 8

→ Common knowledge

→ eg DNA is genetic material in humans