Referencing Help

What is Referencing?

When you are writing a piece of work and use someone else’s words or ideas you must reference them.

This means that you need to include detailed information on all sources consulted, both within your text (in-text citations) and at the end of your work (reference list or bibliography).

MUST Referencing Style

American Psychological Association (APA)

Referencing Illustration

Plagiarism

You commit plagiarism – intentionally or not – in written work when you use another person’s sentences, ideas, or opinions without acknowledging them as being from that other person.

MUST's Stand on Plagiarism

MUST Senate Rules And Regulations For Academic Examinations And Assessment

  • Deliberate use of any outside source without proper acknowledgement where “outside source” means any work published or unpublished, by any person other than the student
  • Plagiarism is not permitted because it is a misrepresentation of the material as the student’s original work
  • Unreported collaboration on written assignments
  • False data submitted for practicals or field work or false citation

Zotero Referencing

Zotero instantly creates references and bibliographies for any text editor, and directly inside Word, LibreOffice, and Google Docs. With support for over 9,000 citation styles, you can format your work to match any style guide or publication.

APA 7th Edition

Download MUST APA 7th Edition Guide - The seventh edition of the APA Publication Manual contains a number of updates and additions designed to make APA style more useful.

Other popular reference styles

There are other major citation styles that are used in academic writing that MUST does not make use of.Read More

Alternative reference management tools

A considerable number of other good reference management tools exist that can be used to organize and manage references. Read More