Research: Referencing Rules

Referencing Rules

These are basic rules that govern documentations. Omekwu and Okafor (2009:121), summarize these rules as thus:

A reference must be included every time you use someone else’s idea or information.

A reference must be included when you paraphrase (express someone else’s idea in your own words).

When you summarize (express someone else’s idea in a reduced form in your own words).

When quote (express someone else’s idea in their exact words) or copy (reproduce a diagram, graph or table from someone else’s work).

Each reference must appear in two places; in the text (in-text reference) and the end of the work (reference list). © Oformatism