Saturday, November 20, 2010

Research Papers: References

References or Works Cited page refers to the list of sources used as additional materials during the research. It is better to note data about all the sources from the very beginning. As there are many styles (e.g. APA, MLA, Turabian with footnotes or endnotes, Harvard, Chicago), ask your tutor to which one of them you should stick to. Your university may as well impose its own writing style requirements as well, so be sure to find it out in advance. One common mistake made by most of the students is copy-pasting and adding sources to their list. If you choose to do so, at least check the styles to match (isn’t it sad to lose points just because you missed or mismatched commas in two sources?). One more point: sources have to be listed alphabetically.

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