Natalie Lamb and the referencing guide for school pupils

Today I delivered my eight Tutorial 6 with The Brilliant Club, this time at Deepings School. In this session I deliver 1:1 feedback about the draft final assignments that have been submitted to me. A reoccurring point of discussion was the formatting of referencing. I produced this guide and activity on how to reference for KS3 pupils but it could equally be used with older or younger pupils. A free PDF document of this guide and an in-class or homework activity that can be printed and used in class can be found using this link.


Natalie’s Guide on How to Reference
You should reference anything that has not come from your own mind. 
It is OK to do it slightly differently than the below, just make sure all your references have the same format. Don’t forget to reference images/graphs too! If you look under the heading “Books:” you will see the proper way to reference the Brilliant Cub handbook.

Referencing in your essay
In your final assignment, do a short reference. This means you are proving the information is true and from a reliable source but not interrupting the flow of your essay by adding loads of text. Instead, people reading your work can look up the full reference using the bibliography at the end of your work.

Examples: 

• BBC (2017) said “water is the most useful thing in the world”.
• This was also discussed by BBC (2017), who said “water is the most useful thing in the world”.
• BBC (2017) said “water is the most useful thing in the world”, which means the BBC thinks water is great.
• In the world, water is useful because it helps people (BBC, 2017).
• Some experts say that water is very helpful (BBC, 2017).

Referencing at the end of your essay
At the very end of your essay, you should use the heading Bibliography. The bibliography is where all the references are written in full in a list in alphabetical order. There are slightly different ways of writing the reference, depending on what the source is (for example, a website, a book, a journal paper).

Website:

• Structure
• Last name, First initial (Year published), Website Title, URL (Accessed: Day/Month/Year)
• Company (Year published), Website Title, URL (Accessed: Day/Month/Year)
• Example 
• City of Toronto (2017), How does lake water get turned into drinking water?,https://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=baa807ceb6f8e310VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD (Accessed: 23/08/17) 

Book:

• Structure
• Last name, First initial (Year published), Title. Edition. (Only include the edition if it is not the first edition) City published: Publisher, Page(s)
• Company (Year published). Title. Edition. (Only include the edition if it is not the first edition) City published: Publisher, Page(s)
• Example
• Lamb, N (2017), From distant rivers to your kitchen sink: The chemical, microbiological and civil engineering journey of drinking water treatment, Brilliant Club Handbook, pp 17

Journal Paper:

• Structure
• Last name, First initial (Year published), Article title, Journal, Volume (Issue), Page(s)
• Example
• Ross, N (2015), On Truth Content and False Consciousness in Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory, Philosophy Today, 59(2), pp. 269-290

Example bibliography:

Bibliography

City of Toronto (2017), How does lake water get turned into drinking water?,https://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=baa807ceb6f8e310VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD (Accessed: 23/08/17)
Lamb, N (2017), From distant rivers to your kitchen sink: The chemical, microbiological and civil engineering journey of drinking water treatment, Brilliant Club Handbook, pp 17
Ross, N (2015), On Truth Content and False Consciousness in Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory, Philosophy Today, 59(2), pp. 269-290



References Test