LibGuides: Linguistics and Applied Language Studies: Referencing

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Referencing:

Some call it a reference list, others call it a bibliography, but the fact remains that somewhere you have to provide the reader with a list of the sources you have consulted so that they can find them for themselves if they want to. A reference list is strictly a list of only those sources which you have explicitly mentioned in the body of your work, while a bibliography is a list of everything that you read that influenced your thinking, including all the sources you referred to in the body of your work. But seeing as you will be acknowledging all the ideas in your assignment which come from other sources, there isn’t much difference between them. This list is attached at the end of your assignment and should be set out carefully according to the instructions below.

Referencing Books

Langacker, R.W. 1997. Language and its Structure. London: Harcourt Brace.

Lunsford, A. & R. Connors. 1992. The St. Martin’s Handbook. New York: St. Martin’s Press.

Referencing an article in a journal

Greenback, P. 1994. “The language of dancehall dancers in Jamaica”. Journal of West Indian Language Varieties, 6(2), 167-174.

Referencing a chapter in a book.

Barr, H.J. & P. Henderson. 1995. “Linguistics for South African students”. In T. Johnson, ed. Linguistics for the Language Professions, 122-134. Johannesburg: Sundown Press.

(Note that the second and subsequent lines of the reference are indented and that the page numbers of the chapter are given after the title of the book.)

Referencing a website

Department of English Language and Linguistics, Rhodes University. 2011.

“Linguistics at Rhodes University”.

http://www.ru.ac.za/englishlanguageandlinguistics. 20 January 2009.

Refworks

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ProQuest Refworks Training Videos

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In this brief introduction to RefWorks, you'll learn how to find and save references while doing your research, how to organize references once they're in RefWorks, and how to cite those references in your writing. RefWorks is an online research tool to help you manage your references when writing and collaborating with fellow researchers. RefWorks organizes, stores, and shares all types of information, and can instantly create citations and bibliographies. See more details in the RefWorks User Guide: http://ow.ly/pNKO30ooMqQ

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