Library guides / Biblioteekgidse: Molecular Biology and Human Genetics: Referencing

Referencing styles at Stellenbosch

Authors of academic texts always need to acknowledge the sources they use for their research.

Follow the link below to learn why you need to reference, when and how you should provide references. The book covers the Harvard, APA and Vancouver methods and the footnote system.

Making sense of referencing

Mendeley training

Learn how to use Mendeley- a 6 part video series from EPE This 6 part video series provides an in-depth explanation of how to use the free Mendeley reference manager effectively during your research process. With this application you can integrate all your literature into one platform that can be accessed on any device, anywhere and anytime, allowing you to stay organised. You can also add colour coded annotations to the documents that you read, and seamlessly insert citations with a related bibliography, into your orking document. With a wide network of researchers, Mendeley also allows you to collaborate with like-minded people and to receive alerts of new research in your focus area/s - From EPE: Enhancing postgraduate environments: http://postgradenvironments.com/

Plagiarism & Referencing: Why? When? Where? How?

Plagiarism

Plagiarism

Turnitin

Turnitin guide

Turnitin is a tool to check the originality of your written work; where necessary it will provide guidelines on where and how you can improve the originality of your work