Sources to Support Your Referencing Practice
This guide has introduced you to the fundamentals of referencing, but you will likely have more questions as you start to reference in practice. You may even have heard of reference management tools that you can use to reference more efficiently. To meet your needs, this final section of the guide introduces you to Cite Them Right—a crucial referencing-support tool— and Endnote a reference management tool that some may find useful.
Cite Them Right
The most important resource at Derby for referencing is called Cite Them Right. Cite Them Right is available as a printed book, but it is most effective and user friendly in its online form. Cite Them Right helps you to understand why referencing is important, and it provides guidance on how to create and structure your citations and references according to the 'rules' of a variety of referencing styles. If you want to develop your knowledge and score well for referencing, then you are highly encouraged to use Cite Them Right. Here is a short, video introduction about how to find it.
Endnote
Referencing management tools can help you keep track, store, organise, and manage your references. You can use them in conjunction with Word to create citations and references automatically in the referencing style of your choice. Reference managers are particularly useful when completing large assignments, such as dissertations or a post-graduate thesis, when you are likely to be using more literature.
Reference managers that you may have heard of are the freely available Mendeley and Zotero. The university, however, has a subscription to EndNote, and you can access this via the software section on course resources.