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Skills at Library Essentials (Retired page)

Guides to search skills and using library research resources

This page is retiring!

Our Skills at Library content has moved, and this guide retired in August 2024. Although we will no longer be supporting and updating this guide, there's still a lot of useful information you can find here. We'll make sure all the tools and training saved here is given a new home before this guide officially retires.

Finding your department's referencing style

You need to reference all information sources you use. To do this, you just need to insert a citation in your text and then expand on this in a footnote or full reference list at the end of your work. The exact way you need to do this depends on your referencing style.

Finding your referencing style

Each department of the University uses a particular referencing style. Use the menu below to find out which referencing style your department uses. You'll find each department listed alphabetically, with the referencing style given in brackets. 

Once you've found your department and style, click the link to be taken to guidance for your style!

Getting help

There are several places you can find help with understanding referencing.

  • Watch our introductory videos for each of the referencing styles
  • Check out Cite Them Right Online. This is a comprehensive referencing resource which will help you to cite and reference just about any source and to avoid plagiarism.
  • Visit CareerHub to find details of upcoming workshops that target your referencing skills.
  • Pick up a book on referencing from one of our libraries.
  • Have a go at our online tutorial that guides you through referencing a book and a journal article.

Link to referencing tutorial