Guide to Referencing
You should refer to course texts and other books to give support to the points that you make in your essays. Avoid long quotes without any original comment expressing your own opinion; instead, try to link the author’s perspective to your own point of view, for example:
While Harmer (2007:85) discusses the need to respond to students individually, experience in the language classroom in Greece shows that this may not always be possible, particularly in large classes with a wide range of ability levels.
Whenever you refer to a source of ideas that is not your own work, you must clearly acknowledge this. References in the text (in text citations) are referred to by the author’s name and year of publication, for example:
It is stated that… (Harmer, 2007)
or
Harmer 2007 states…
If you are citing a specific point, either as a paraphrase or a direct quote, you should also give the page number.
It is stated that… (Harmer, 2007:153)
or
Harmer 2007:153 states…
In the reference list at the end of the essay, books are listed only once in alphabetical order. For each book, you need to include:
Author's (or editor's) surname and initials, year of publication (in brackets), title (in italics), edition (if not first) place of publication, publisher;
for example:
Harmer, J. (2007) The Practice of English Language Teaching, Fourth Edition, Harlow, Pearson Education.
