Referencing
You must list all resources that you have used so that the people who created the resource are given fair credit and others who wish to verify your research can go back to the original resource that you used. Bibme has this graphic to explain:
There are a number of other issues surrounding copyright, creative commons, and citations (referencing). If you need some more information, go to this website. As an academic writer, you need to understand the issues involved and get into the habit of regularly referencing the sources of your information in an appropriate format.
To make it easier for you to complete your bibliography, you should get in the habit of recording the details of every resource as you use it. As you find a useful website, you should save it in your notes document for future use.
Bibliography
The easiest tool to help you create a correctly formatted bibliography is built right in to Google Docs.
There are a number of other tools including EasyBib Add on for Google Docs and Bibme.
Insert Footnotes
For next level referencing, use ‘in-text’ referencing. This is when you cite the source in the text of a paragraph, usually by inserting a footnote. Then, the brief source detail is in the footnote (e.g. a link to the website) with the complete source detail appearing in the bibliography at the end of the report.
Footnotes are inserted at the end of a sentence to show the reader the source specific information used in that sentence. Here’s how to insert a footnote:
1) Insert-> Footnote
2) Then paste the link to the source into the footnote.
Originality Reports
Google Classroom has a feature that helps you check if you have copied and pasted information from the Web without referencing it properly. Check out the video to learn how.
