I'm using another referencing style

If you are on a Chemistry course, you should reference using a version of the Vancouver system, Vancouver RSC. If your assignment asks you to use 'RSC referencing', this is the system you should use. If you are asked to use RSC referencing, you will lose marks if you use another referencing style in that assignment. If you are uncertain which referencing style to use in your assignment, check with your module tutor before you begin.

Vancouver RSC is a numeric referencing style.

If you have used RSC referencing in previous years, do not worry: any changes this year are largely around how the Royal Society of Chemistry names and supports its referencing style . The mechanics of how you write and use references have not significantly changed.

If you are using Vancouver RSC to reference a journal article, you will need to include an abbreviation of the title of the journal.

It is important that your citations and references are accurate. If you are using an app or software to help you with your referencing, you should check your references to make sure they're correct.

Vancouver RSC & Refworks

If you are using Refworks, choose the style simply called 'Royal Society of Chemistry': ignore any of the ones marked CSL.

Be aware that Refworks may sometimes add the DOI to references for journal articles which have page numbers. As the DOI is not required in journal references which have page numbers, please delete the DOI from the reference in these cases.

If you are on an Electrical or Electronic Engineering course you may be asked to reference in the style used by the IEEE. If so, this guide will help you.

• IEEE Referencing Guidance

IEEE is a numeric referencing system.

IEEE is a relatively common style of referencing, and is supported by numerous referencing tools, including:

• The referencing feature in Library Search (the quotation marks icon next to or under each record in the results list)
• The Citations and Bibliography tool under the References tab in Microsoft Word (unlike APA 7)
• Refworks and many other citation management apps

Please be aware that as a style designed for a professional publication, IEEE formally requires the use of set abbreviations for journal titles and publisher names. However, in the context of student work, this can make referencing unnecessarily complex and intimidating, as well as potentially making it harder to use referencing apps and software. While you can use the abbreviations if you really want to, it is perfectly okay to use the full names of journals and publishers for references in your assignments. 

IEEE also asks for abbreviated US state to be given as part of place of publication where available. As a UK university, it's likely that Sheffield Hallam students are not going to be very familiar with American states or their abbreviations, and so it's completely acceptable to leave the state out of your references. This is especially the case as many of your books are not going to be published in the USA anyway, and as place of publication is becoming increasingly less useful with time.

IEEE & Refworks

There are several variants of the IEEE referencing style available on Refworks. The version you would use as a default for your work is the one labelled 'IEEE- Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers'. However, if you are writing for publication, do check the required referencing style, as it could potentially be one of the other variants.

Students studying Fine art and Creative art practice should refer to the lecture slides and the course handbook for help with the Oxford system.

Please follow the guidance you are given by your tutors.

Please follow the guidance you are given by your tutors.

Videos to Support Oscola Referencing. The following videos have been created by the Learning and Teaching Support Librarian for Law from the Library Services at SHU.

Oscola - Getting Started

Oscola - Cases

Oscola - Law Reports

Oscola - Acts and Statutory Instruments

Oscola - Books and E-Books

Oscola - Journal articles

Oscola - Webpages

Some Physics assignments use a version of the Vancouver system, Vancouver Physics. Please follow the guidance you are given by your tutors.

Vancouver is a numeric referencing style.

If you are asked to use the Vancouver style you may find the Imperial College London Guide to the Vancouver Citing and Referencing Style useful.

Vancouver Physics & Refworks

There are several variants of the Vancouver referencing style available on Refworks. The version you would use as a default for your work is the one labelled simply  'Vancouver'.