1. Is referencing needed when quoting directly from a published source.

• Yes

• No

Is referencing needed when using statistics or other data that is freely available from a publicly accessible website?

• Yes

• No

Is referencing needed When summarizing the cause of undisputed past events and where there is an agreement by most commentators on cause and effect?

• Yes

• No

Is referencing necessary when paraphrasing a definition found on a website and when no writer, editor or author’s name is shown?

• Yes

• No

Is referencing needed when summarizing in a concluding paragraph of your assignment what you discussed and referenced earlier in your text?

• Yes

• No

Where should the citation go in the following text?

A major study of British school leavers concluded that parents had a major influence on the kind of work entered by their children. The children were influenced over a long period of time by the values and ideas about work of their parents. A later study reached the same conclusion, and showed a link between the social and economic status of parents and the work attitudes and aspirations of their teenage children.

• After the first sentence

• At the end of the text

• Both 1 and 2

Is this the correct way to do referencing?

Http://www.bbc.co.uk/bob/callcentres/ [Accessed 09/08/2004].

• Yes

• No

Is referencing necessary when summarizing undisputed and commonplace facts about the world?

• Yes

• No

Is the following an acceptable form of reference?

It has been argued (Hayden White, 1978) that history is simply a special sort of fiction governed by particular rules of presentation.

• Yes

• No

A trainee submitted an assignment with only in-text citations and no list of references. Is this acceptable?

• Yes

• No