The Bell Program Referencing Guide

This guide provides instructions for the three most commonly used referencing systems for academic writing at UTS. These include the author and date systems in the Harvard and APA styles and the numerical Note system.

The guide has been prepared in consultation with the UTS Faculties and lists the preferred styles for each Faculty unless otherwise stated.Your lecturer/tutor may impose other conditions that would override this general guide and these conditions will be noted in Subject Outlines.

A brief introduction to the importance of acknowledging sources, plagiarism and referencing provides a basis for the following style guides. Staff and students can also use Endnote bibliographic software to collect, store and organise references.

This table links you to the referencing system preferred by your Faculty and includes a comprehensive list of both in text citation and reference list formats and examples for each style.