Economics and Finance: Referencing

Referencing is a practice of acknowledging other peoples works, ideas, sources used in a paper, assignment, report and conference papers in academic writing.

• To acknowledge the sources of information you have used just as authors of books and journal articles list the sources they have used
• It is academic courtesy to acknowledge the work of others – none of us know everything and we we rely on the work of others
• Your lecturers/readers need to see from where you obtained your information 
• Your lecturers/readers need to see how widely you have read; whether you have used key sources and how up to date your information is
• Your lecturers/readers need to be able to verify the information you have used
• Plagiarism – using someone else’s ideas as if they were your own is unacceptable and a punishable offence.

A referencing style refers to the way in which bibliographic details are set out in a document and in a bibliography. There is no universal style and each discipline has its own preference.

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