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It is very important that you acknowledge any of the work
of others that you use or adapt in your own work, or that
provides the essential background or context to your
dissertation. The use of references is the standard way to
do this.
References should be listed after the conclusions
chapter and before the appendices. Start a new page with
the title 'References'. In the main body of text, they may
be referred to in one of the following ways:
| ...some early work by Brooks (1975) suggests that
throwing men at a problem is counter-productive...
or ...some early work (Brooks, 1975) suggests that
throwing men at a problem is counter-productive...; |
| Early work in this area [1, 9, 12] shows that...;
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In the references, each citation would be listed in the
relevant format. The first style leads to an
alphabetically ordered list:
Brooks, F.P. (1975), The Mythical Man Month:
Essays on Software Engineering, Addison-Wesley.
Pickle, X.X.X. and H.O.T. Chilli (2001), "Very
strong pickles", Department of Pickling Technical
Report CS-01-07, University of Pickling, UK.
Pickle, X.X.X. and H.O.T. Chilli (2002a), "Very
strong pickles", Journal for pickling, 15:7, pp.
101-7.
Pickle, X.X.X. and H.O.T. Chilli (2002b), "Very,
very strong pickles", Journal for pickling, 15:8,
pp. 91-8.
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The second style leads to a list ordered by first
occurence of the reference in the main text
1 Brooks, F.P. (1975), The
Mythical Man Month: Essays on Software
Engineering, Addison-Wesley.
2...
15 Pickle, X.X.X. and H.O.T. Chilli
(2002), "Very strong pickles", Journal for
pickling, 15:7, pp. 101-7.
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Whichever technique you decide to use, be consistent. It
is fine to use URLs in references, and it is good practice
to include a "last date visited" field for these. Remember
that the point of the references list is to enable a
reader to locate those works you have referred to in a
library, so make sure you include all relevant
information: for a journal this would include author,
title, year, journal title, volume, pages; for a book this
includes author, title, year, publisher.
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