introduction to case study harvard style of referencing 10/21/20151by lillian tamale - fict

INTRODUCTION TO CASE STUDY

Harvard Style of Referencing

04/20/23 1By Lillian Tamale - FICT

Overview

• What is referencing? • Why should you reference?• Which referencing system should you use?• Ways of citing• Verbs that help with Author-Prominent

Referencing• Paraphrasing• Should you Paraphrase or use Quotations?04/20/23 By Lillian Tamale - FICT 2

Terminologies

Referencing is the an act or instance of referring or pointing to the source of the information.

Citation is the practice of referring to the work of other authors in the text of your own piece of work. Such works are cited to show evidence both of the background reading that has been done and to support the content and conclusions.


Terminologies Cont• References list: an organised listing of the works

cited in the text, placed at the end of the document.

• Bibliography: a full listing of all material consulted in relation to the research, including any source material not directly cited in the text, placed at the end of the document.

N.B: It is therefore important, in any formal piece of work, that you are clear exactly what the requirements are for referencing and that you fulfill those requirements.


Why accurate citation & referencing.• To give credit to the concepts and ideas of other

authors.• To provide the reader (often the marker/examiner

of the assignment) with evidence of the breadth and depth of your reading.

• To enable those who read your work to locate the cited references easily.

• To enable someone reading the document to find the material you have referred to or consulted.

• To demonstrate your width of reading and knowledge about a subject.

• To support and/or develop points made in the text.04/20/23 5By Lillian Tamale - FICT

Why accurate citation & referencing conti.

• To avoid accusations of plagiarism: using somebody else's work without acknowledging the fact.

• Plagiarism is passing off the work of others as your own. This constitutes

• academic theft and is a serious matter which is penalised in assignment marking.


Which referencing system should you use?• Cavendish University Uganda desires to use the Harvard

Referencing Style other than other different referencing systems used in academic writing because of the following:-

• One of our objectives is to become the Harvard of Africa, so we tend to embrace Harvard Referencing Style looking up to that best University.

• Still, it is easier than others where by the reader and the researcher can not be confused due its details and order.

N.B: It is important that you use this referencing system required for your assignment

• and maintain consistency in using that system.04/20/23 By Lillian Tamale - FICT 7

Harvard style

• Commonly known as the author-date systems, alphabetical/name-date system.

• It uses a single line spacing (1.5) and a font size of 12.


Ways of citing• There are two ways of citing references:1. Author prominent• This way gives prominence to the author by using the

author’s surname (family name) as part of your sentence with the date and the page number in parentheses (round brackets).

Direct quote example• Cowie (1996, p. 91) argues that ‘socialism rejected the

liberal ideals of individualism and competition’.Paraphrase example• Cowie (1996) suggests that unlike capitalism, socialism

promotes the good of the whole before the good of the individual.04/20/23 By Lillian Tamale - FICT 9

Ways of citing continued..2. Information prominent• This gives prominence to the information, with all the

required referencing details in parentheses at the end of the citation.

Direct quote example• It has been argued that ‘socialism rejected the liberal ideals

of individualism and competition’(Cowie 1996, p. 91).Paraphrase example• Unlike capitalism, socialism promotes the good of the

whole before the good of the individual (Cowie 1996).

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Paraphrasing• Means to repeat accurately and concisely or briefly

in your own words something you have read. • If your work does not refer to specific ideas on

particular pages of a resource but to general themes mentioned throughout the resource, page numbers need not be shown.

General theme• Studies (Tanner 1999) indicate that the economic

structure of Australia today is far more• unpredictable and unstable than it was thirty years

ago.04/20/23 By Lillian Tamale - FICT 12

Paraphrasing continued..

Specific idea• Tanner (1999, p. 22) claims that the

introduction of the GST in the Australian economic structure

• has not impacted the price of fuels.


Should you Paraphrase or use Quotations?

• It is preferable that you paraphrase (put ideas in your own words) as too many quotations (using the exact words) can lead to a poorly written assignment.

• A general rule in academic circles is that no more than 10% of an assignment should be in the form of direct quotations.

• No matter whether you use quotations or paraphrase another’s words, you always need to give references—both in the text and in the reference list.


Citations• Harvard style citations consist of author or editor

family names and the date of publication of an item. One of two forms may be used:

1.Wangi (1989) considers how to run a ...2.One commentator (Gray 1989) has looked at ... • Where a work has more than three authors or

editors, cite the name of the first named author or editor only, followed by, et al.:

e.g. A study of flora in Kenya (Stadler, J., et al. 2000) suggests ...


CitationsIf you refer to two or more sources by the same

person from the same year, distinguish them by adding a lower-case letter after the year, as follows:

Collins (2001a), Collins (2001b), Collins (2001c) etc. Where quoting directly from a work, or referring to

particular pages, provide the page number(s) after the date:

"How well you select your professional and business advisers will have a direct bearing on your business success." (Gray 1989, p.118)


References lists and bibliographiesGeneral points• References list or Bibliography is listed in alphabetical order

by author's family name. If an author has written more than one work, the works for that author should be listed in date order, oldest first. Where more than one work by the same author from a single year is referenced, put them in the alphabetical order of the additional lower-case notation. Thus (2000a) would go above (2000b) in the list.

• If a work is a second or subsequent edition, the edition number should be noted after the title in the form 2nd ed., as appropriate.


• It is customary to put the titles of books and journals in italics. An alternative is to underline them. Whichever method you use, use it throughout. The examples below all use italics.

1. Academic thesis• Author - family name, initials. (Year). Title of

thesis. Type of thesis. Institution.Example• Maloney, D.R. (1996). An investigation into the

mechanism of catalytic chain transfer polymerisation. Ph.D. thesis. University of Warwick.


2. Book• Author(s) - family name, initials. (Year). Title of

book. Edition. Place of publication: Publisher.Examples1.Anthony, G. (2002). UK public law and

European law. Oxford: Hart.2.Cohen, H., Rogers, G.F.C. and

Saravanamuttoo, H.I.H. (1996). Gas turbine theory. 4th ed. Harlow: Longman.


3. Web site (excluding online journals)• A Web site has no identifiable author, and is not

the work of an organisation, leave out the author details, beginning the reference with the title of the Web page.

• Author(s) - family name, initials. (Year, month day). Title of document. [Online]. (URL). Place of publication: Publisher. (Date accessed).

• Benn, T. (2002, June 21). Recognition in a democracy. [Online]. (URL http://www.tonybenn.com/reco.html). (Accessed 12 February 2004).


4. Report• It is important to be able to identify the body on whose

behalf research was carried out. For this reason, if a research report is part of a series, the title for the series and the volume/number of the report should be given at the end of the reference.

• Author(s) - family name, initials. (Year). Title of report. Edition. Place of publication: Publisher. (Series and vol./no.).

Example• Chang, D., et al. (2001). Modernizing service delivery: the

better government for older people prototypes. Leeds: Corporate Document Services. (Department of Social Security research report no. 136).


5. Conference paper• Author(s) - family name, initials. (Year). Title of paper. In:

Editor(s) - family name, initials, ed(s). Title of conference, location, date held. Place of publication: Publisher, Page number(s).

E.g: Micelli, F., Myers, J.J. and Murthy, S.S. (2002?). Performance of FRP confined concrete subjected to accelerated environmental conditioning. In: Benmokrane, B. and El-Salakawy, E., eds. Durability of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites for construction: proceedings of the second International Conference (CDCC 02), Montreal, May 29-31 2002. Sherbrooke: Université de Sherbrooke, pp. 87-98.


6. CD-ROMExample• Title of product. [CD-ROM]. City of publication:

Publisher, Year.World development indicators. [CD-ROM].

Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 2003.


Other Reference Styles

1. American Psychological Association (APA) Style Guide

2. Modern Languages Association (MLA) Style Guide

3. Turabian Style Guide4. Chicago Manual of Style


BibliographyLia, X. and Crane, N.B. (1996). Electronic styles: a guide to

citing electronic information. 2nd ed. Medford, N.J.: Information Today.

Staffordshire University. (2011). Harvard referencing examples. [Online]. (URL http://www.staffs.ac.uk/uniservices/infoservices/library/find/references/harvard/index.php). Stafford: Staffordshire University. (Accessed 6 June 2011).

University Library. (2010). Guide to the Harvard style of Referencing [Online]. (URLhttp://libweb.anglia.ac.uk /referencing/Harvard). Anglia Ruskin University. (Accessed 6 June 2011).


introduction to case study harvard style of referencing 10/21/20151by lillian tamale - fict

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