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Noting Sources

Finding and Recording Information

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If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Anita Roddick – founder of the Body Shop

Whose words are they anyway?

If there’s a way to do it better ... Find it.

Thomas A Edison

You may be disappointed if you fail but you are doomed if you don’t try.

Beverly Sills – opera singer and manager

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There is always a time when you say “I can’t put it in better words myself”.

This is where you quote what you need to say by putting somebody else’s words in quotation marks “ ”.

At the bottom of the page place a footnote stating whose words you have quoted.

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It is very important that you record the source of any research that you use in your work.

For the record

This detailed list is called a bibliography.

It enables other people to find the research that you used for themselves.

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There are different ways to record the information. Below is a standard way of referencing a book:

Author (surname first), Title of Book, Edition of Book, Publisher and Year of Publication, Volume number (if applicable) and the Page Numbers.

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For a newspaper article you use the following style:

Author, ‘Title of Article’, Newspaper, Date, Page.

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A web site can be referenced as follows:

Author, ‘Title of Document’, Date of Document, URL (web site address), and the Date the information was accessed in brackets.

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Other people’s words can only be used if they are placed in quotation marks and acknowledged by naming the author of the work.

All sources of information used in a piece of work must be referenced using a bibliography.

Details including author, title of publication/article, publisher/web site address and date of publication/access must be included.

A bibliography can be used to find further details about the piece of work.

Summary

What can I remember?