Referencing in your own work is important, as it’s giving credit to using other’s finding and data. Without legal referencing, it’ll be a case of copyright - and it’s also not fair to take someone’s findings and not credit them.
There is a formal way of referencing and that is called Harvard Referencing. This is a great way to reference and quote in essays and research projects, too. To quote a book you have to include the information in this order:
Author, Surname, Initials. (Year) Title. Edition if not 1st. Place of publication: Publisher.
If you want to cite a website or article, you need to include the information in this order:
Author (Year) Title of
web page. Available at:
URL (Accessed: date).
If there is no author, then you need to provide the organisation instead. How you'd put these in an essay is either at the end, or you can cite it in the paragraph you need. For example, new research from the Telegraph (2017) has shown 'a new study has suggested that eating chilli peppers could be the secret to a longer life.'
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