Writing for the subject

Citing references in your work

There is no single way of writing references. Two well-known styles are the Harvard system and the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) system.  You will need to use the style specified by your department or by the body or journal to which you are submitting your work.  The Arts Faculty has produced a useful guide to citing academic work. If there are no guidelines specified, you should make sure that you write your references in a consistent way.

The Journal title abbreviations in English page gives advice on how you can ascertain journal title abbreviations to be used in your reference list.

The Plagiarism: information and advice for students page includes these sections:

• Other abbreviations used in references including ibid, op. cit. and et al.
• Software packages and websites for managing sets of references