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Why you need to reference (Open Learning)

Examples of in-text citations and a reference list

This paragraph includes several in-text citations, to both information from specific pages and to whole studies.  When citing more than one source to support the same statement, separate the in-text citations with a semicolon.

Paragraph incorporating in-text citations

The reference list appears at the end of the assignment. It is a list of all the sources referred to in the assignment, in alphabetical order by author surname.

Example reference list