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Media, Film & Communication: Writing & Citing

Help with 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!

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Referencing Management Software

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) 

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

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