Citing and referencing material used in your assignment or thesis enable others to verify facts and ideas in your work more easily, and shows you're acting in an ethical manner. Acknowledgements may be in the form of in-text citations, footnotes, endnotes and/or a bibliography.
Choose one of the style guides below to help you cite and reference correctly. Contact your lecturer if you're unsure about which style to use for your subject.
Workshops and online tutorial
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Online Zoom workshops about citing and referencing are available throughout the year. They will help you learn the basics, see a live demonstration and discover tips and tricks to earn you better marks.
This four-part online tutorial explains the what, why and how of citing and referencing.
Using artificial intelligence
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Many major citing and referencing styles are yet to publish guidelines on how to cite and reference artificial intelligence technology sources. Each style guide will have an example based on the style’s interim advice where available, or the closest source type where such interim advice is not available.
Student Academic Success provides advice on appropriately using generative AI in your work and how to acknowledge it.
Indigenous knowledge
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Indigenous knowledge encompasses both traditional and evolving knowledges of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in many forms including cultural language, art, stories and dance and the written word.
Appropriately acknowledging this in academic writing is a part of how we show respect and recognise expertise.
When citing and referencing it is important to
There are a number of different approaches. This Indigenous Knowledges Attribution Toolkit is a good place to start.
It’s been developed by the Indigenous Archives Collective (IAC) to support students to
A key recommendation is to include the author’s Nation, Country or Language group in your citation.
The AIASTIS collection is a good resource, as they have extensive metadata that captures this information.
Manage references using software - EndNote and Zotero
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We support two reference management software, EndNote and Zotero.
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Get help
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Get help from a librarian when you need support beyond what you can find in these guides. Bookings are available for students, educators, and researchers.
