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The Faculty of Education uses the APA style for referencing.

Why Reference your sources?
It is important to reference the sources you use so that the reader can follow your arguments and check your sources. It is essential to correctly acknowledge the author when quoting or using other peoples' ideas in your work.

APA is a citation style create by the American Psychological Association. This guide is based on the following information contained in:

1. Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed),
2. Pocket guide to APA style by Robert Perrin

How to use APA

Sources must be cited in two ways:

1.   As in-text citations in the body of the text when other people's ideas or words are used.

Examples below after T:

In-text citations consist of the author's name and year of publication inserted at an appropriate point in the text.

Sternberg (1993) suggests results should be carefully analysed

                                                         OR

a discussion of results analysis (Sternberg, 1993)

• Page numbers are included in the in-text citation for direct quotations, such as (Sternberg, 1993, p. 59).
• Direct quotations 40 words or less should be typed within the text surrounded by quotation marks. 
• Direct quotations more than 40 words should be included as a separate paragraph, and indented left and right, without quotation marks.

2.  In a list entitled References at the end of the main body of the text.

     Examples below after R:

A reference list entry includes information about the source such as author, publication date, title, place of publication and publisher, but may include additional information depending on the type of source.

• The reference list starts a new page and is arranged alphabetically by author's last name.
• References are double spaced with the second and subsequent lines of each reference indented.

If you cannot find an example for what you are looking for then use the APA manual.