Referencing for researchers (standalone online learning course)
Duration 0.5 days
Team Central Short Courses
This course is delivered by the Libraries, Research and Learning Resources (LRLR)

Target audience

Early stage postgraduate research students [especially off-campus]

Early career researchers

Pre-requisites

To study this course you must have access to the internet.


Process

This is a standalone (self-study) online course.

This course is delivered entirely online via Moodle and is self-study.  You may access the course as often as you like until the end of the academic year.

If you wish to gain a training point for this course you will need to do the short assessment tasks associated with it. Working through the material and completing the assessment should take you approximately 3 to 4 hours in total. Completion of the assessment is optional.

Researchers across all 3 campuses can self-enrol on this course in Moodle by following this link: 
https://moodle.nottingham.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=65540

 

Aims

 

This course is designed to help you cite, organise and use references effectively, and to create bibliographies for your thesis and for publication.

Objectives

By the end of this course you will be able to:

  • set out references to a variety of sources, including electronic publications, correctly
  • use an appropriate style of citing references from the text of documents
  • organise references effectively
  • make an informed choice of referencing system
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