Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
– Information prominent
• The other way of citing references gives prominence to the
information, with all the required referencing details parentheses:
– It has been argued that ‘socialism rejected the liberal ideals of
individualism and competition’ (Cowie, p.91)
Paraphrasing
• Paraphrasing preferred
– A general rule in academic circles is that no more than 10% of
an assignment should be in the form of direct quotations.
• Quotations
• Specific Idea
expressed
• Short quotations
• Larger quotations
– Quotation marks are not necessary but the entire quoted phrase
must be indented.
Omitting Words From Quotations
– Minimal Capitalization
– Maximal Capitalization
The Use of Capitalisation in the Reference
List
• Minimal Capitalization
• Maximal Capitalization
– First letter of all words in the title except articles (the, a, an),
prepositions (for, on, under, about), and conjunctions (and, but,
or).
Abbreviations Meaning
anon anonymous
e.g. for example
ibid. in the same work, cited just above (ibidem)
op.cit. In the work cited (opere citato)
p., pp. Page, pages
v., vol., vols. Volume, volumes
Endnotes