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Academic Phrasebank is a comprehensive resource in which you get examples of phrases and formulations to use in your thesis. From the University of Manchester.
On this page, you will find information on references and how properly citing references can help you to avoid plagiarism.
When writing essays and other works at the university, it is important to cite the sources (for example, books, articles, web pages, images) you have used
The main reasons why accurate referencing is necessary:
There are different referencing styles. If you are studying Textile and Fashion Management, you should use the style known as Harvard. Harvard is not a standardised system, which means that different guides have different recommendations. Therefore, it is important that you keep to one certain guide throughout your work.
York St John University Harvard Referencing Guide
The recommendations in this guide is quite similar to UB's Harvardguide.
Anglia Ruskin University Library Guide to the Harvard System of Referencing is a comprehensive guide, available as a web version and in PDF format.
EndNote - information and guides.
EnNote helps you to collect and organise references, insert text references, and create bibliographies in your paper.
This is a film about how to refer to sources by paraphrasing and quoting.
By David Taylor (3:13 min.)