Computing and Games Design

Referencing is an essential part of academic writing.

It helps you acknowledge other people's work and establish your own ideas. You can find out more about referencing using APA on the Referencing at Sheffield Hallam University guide.

• Click here to go to the Library guide: Help with Referencing.

There are online tools for referencing that can be used to help you reference.

If you use an online referencing tool e.g. ProQuest Online or the Microsoft Word referencing tool, you still need to know what is required for a reference according to the referencing style you are using e.g. what information is required for a book reference and how it should be written.  This is important as you still need to check the references created by any online referencing tool to make sure that they are correct.

The Library Help with Referencing guide contains a section called I want to use RefWorks and is full of lots of useful information about getting started using these products and details of up-and- coming Library webinars - Getting started with ProQuest RefWorks.

• Click here to go to I want to use RefWorks or other tools.