Introduction > Reviewing Literature > Acknowledging Sources

Acknowledging Sources From the start of your University career, particularly when you produce written work and presentations, you will be expected to acknowledge any sources eg books, papers, web sites, etc that you have used in the production of your work. When you acknowledge someone else's work/ideas in the body of the text, an abbreviated acknowledgement, known as a citation, is used. At the end of your work you should produce a list of all the work you have cited. This is called a reference list. The exception to this rule is if you are quoting from a conversation you have had with someone then the reference should only appear in the body of text, this is referred to as a personal communication often abbreviated to Pers. comm.: '... according to Fraser (Pers. comm.) ...' '... is not dependant upon temperature (Fraser, G., Pers. comm.) ...'. Citations and references should be used when you: mention a fellow researcher's work directly quote a fellow researcher re-word a quote use a fellow researcher's data.

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