Introduction

This section will help you to understand how to cite references when writing-up your research and how to compile the bibliography at the end. Although these might seem quite marginal issues when you start your essay or research, they are key during the writing up. If you know how to do it properly, you will save crucial time and spare your energies for the intellectual endeavour of elaborating on the outcomes of your research.

When you write up your research it is important that you provide a reference any time you quote from or paraphrase another work, this guide shows how this is to be done.