UNIT 10: STUDY SKILLS

Referencing: definitions
1 To understand referencing, it is important to understand the differences between the main types of source text that you will need to refer to. If possible, go to a library and ask a librarian to show you an example of each type. Match the type of source text with the definition. 1. This has an editor or panel of editors who check the quality of the contents. It contains a number of academic articles by different authors (usually between four and eight). It will have a name, date, volume and issue. It usually has a paper cover like a magazine. It is usually published once every three or four months. It has been reviewed by experts in the subject before publication. It may possibly have an electronic version available to buy on the Internet (or free to university students). Each publication is an issue. Each year is a volume. Every issue will have the same title. 2. This usually has one or two names on the cover. It is usually divided into chapters with titles. It has a single date and a publisher. It will usually be published once only and it is unlikely to have updated editions. The chapters are written by different authors. These contributors will not always be the people whose names are on the cover. It can be any length. 3. In academic libraries, when all the issues of a journal have been published for one year, i.e. a full volume, these issues are bound together and given a hard cover. This looks like a book. However it is simply a way of storing journals in a secure and safe way. The page numbers of journals continue throughout a volume. Therefore the bound pages of journals are numbered in sequence. 4. This usually has one or two authors. It is normally divided into chapters with titles. It has a single date and a publisher. It will usually be published once only although it may have updated editions. The chapters are written by the author(s) whose names are on the cover. It can be any length. 5. This usually has one or two authors but it can have several. It has an abstract, an introduction, main body and conclusion. It will have a date and the name and details of a journal on it (probably on every page). It is written by the author(s) whose names are on the first page under the title. This is usually approximately 1,200 to 4,000 words long. It has been reviewed by experts in that subject before publication. It may possibly have an electronic version available to buy on the Internet (or free to university students)

A bound volume of journals 1 2 3 4

An academic journal

An academic article

An edited book

A book

2 Look at the information that you have gathered about some source texts which you need to use to create a bibliography. What type of source texts are they? William Baxter, The Long Walk Home, OUP, Oxford, 2007 Marlene Lemington, Social Justice in Inner Cities, pp.82 97, The Socio-Legal Review, Volume 21, Issue 2, 2005 James Tark and Irene Welsh (Editors), The Future of Britains Cities, New York, Pearson Education, 2006, 2nd Edition Susan Robinson and Rachel Evans, 2008 Does living in an inner city area in the UK lead to a shorter life expectancy?, The British Journal of Health and the Environment, Volume 43, Issue 3, pp. 186 206 Jenny Oliver and Kelly Mutt, 2007 Social Care on the Isle of Man, The Social Work Review, Volume 14, Issue 1, pp. 25 36 Pepe Manster and Shaki Lenster, Home Comforts, CUP, Cambridge, 2006

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3 Use the information about the source texts to write a bibliography, following the Harvard system outlined in Lesson 10.5.

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