Media, Film & Communication: Writing & Citing

If you follow a citation style correctly, you will avoid plagiarism and help your reader find your information sources. 

Sometimes your lecturer will provide you with their preferred citation style/variation. Always follow your lecturers' instructions, or contact your subject librarian!

The Library has guides for all the most popular referencing styles - Referencing Guides

Other universities also have helpful guides to consult:

• APA  | University of Canterbury 
• Harvard | Auckland University 
• Chicago | AUT University 
• MLA  | Massey University (Interactive) 

There is software available to help you to keep track of all of the information that you find and ensure that your citations are formatted correctly.

Managing Your References - Introduction (Citation Library) 

• References -  Introduction 

Know which reference manager you are looking for?  Use the following links to quickly navigate to their tabs in this guide:

• Zotero

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use, refencing management software to help you collect, manage, cite, and share your research sources. It has a google extension to make saving your refences easier, and integrates with both Word and Google Docs. Highly Recommended. 

• Endnote 
• Endnote videos 

EndNote is software used to manage bibliographic citations. It can be used to organise references, cite them in papers, and automatically generate bibliographies - in the citation style of your choice. 

• Mendeley

Mendeley is a free reference manager that can help you store, organize, note, share and cite references and research data.