Citation and Referencing

Virtually all good scientific work builds on work done previously by others. In Computer Science, you will consult technical material, documentation and scientific literature as part of your work.

When reporting on your own work, you need to demonstrate the work that is your own and the sources of the related work that you have consulted to do your work. For assessment purposes, this helps your markers understand the ideas that have influenced your work. More generally, this helps anyone reading your work to find out more information.

This document highlights good practice when referencing these sources. This is intended for undergraduate students producing reports for assignments and projects in the Department of Computer Science at Aberystwyth University.

Version

This is version 1.2, released on Mar 01, 2022. See the Document History section for details of changes.

Contents

• About references
  • References, styles and citations
    • Information about references
  • References and hyperlinks
  • Using references
• Good Academic Practice
  • Unacceptable academic practice
  • About good practice
  • Using your own words
  • Quoting sources
  • Ethics of citation
• Styles
  • Author-Date Style
  • Numeric Style
  • Annotated references
• Tools
• Examples
  • IEEE examples
    • Book (print)
    • Ebook
    • Conference paper
    • Periodical/Journal
    • Website
    • Using URLs
  • IEEE citations example
  • Harvard examples
  • Annotated references
• Document History
  • Author List

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