Referencing done right
Referencing causes more misery among students than anything else. I have attempted to distil our collective wisdom into just five tips that should make your referencing as straightforward and restful as possible.
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Relax – it’s only referencing
We have all been there. You reach the end of an assignment and breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that there is nothing more to do than complete the reference list. Several hours later, now looking like you are carrying …
Here to help
We know that everything at university can seem rather complicated at times. That’s why we are here to explain how everything works in person, by email or you can chat online for instant answers 24/7. You will always get through …
Return of Referencing@Portsmouth
Cite Them Right has gone away and been replaced with the return of our own in-house referencing platform, Referencing@Portsmouth. We think you’ll like the changes. Bringing referencing back in house allows us to give you more relevant examples and tailor …
Referencing@Portsmouth gets a new look
You may have noticed a change to the Library referencing page yesterday. We have returned to using an in-house system that is tailored precisely to your needs, offering more precise referencing advice and examples specific to how we use different …
Making the most of Mendeley
Mendeley is a versatile and powerful reference management platform that helps automatically create pre-formatted reference lists that reliably match the citations in the body of your assignment. It can save you time and hassle referencing things, whichever referencing style you …
4 referencing top tips Cite Them Right might not tell you
When it comes to referencing these days, it is usually pretty straightforward. Click the icon on the Library website and then on Cite Them Right, log in (if you are not using the VPN – but seriously, if you can …
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Introducing Cite Them Right: referencing made simple
Referencing is most people’s least favourite part of researching and writing an assignment. Tedious, pedantic and seemingly comprised of the wreckage left by a violent collision between a number of different rulesets, referencing systems seem to be designed to cost …
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Law referencing (OSCOLA) drop-in sessions
Our lovely Law subject team, Mystery and Sharon, will be running OSCOLA (law referencing) drop-in sessions via Zoom three times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays between 5 October and 18 December from 11 am – 12 noon each …
APA (6th ed.) referencing bite-sized: gather your reference links as you go!
Your reference list is a single alphabetical list of all the sources you have cited. Everything you have cited should be included in your reference list and everything in your reference list should have been cited at least once in …
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