Referencing with APA 

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It is important to provide references for quoted text, facts, figures as well as concepts and ideas, that you use in your work. This helps you to avoid plagiarism, and also allows readers to examine these ideas in their original context. 

Researchers list the information sources they have used or published in a consistent, widely-accepted way, so that readers of the list have the best chance of locating these sources if they wish. The items on the list are called citations, or references, and they are formatted according to the desired referencing style.

You will be required to do the same when you include a list of references at the end of an assignment. The main referencing style used by the Faculty of Health Sciences is APA  (American Psychological Association) 5th. edition. This module describes how to list references you find in APA style. For help with why and how to reference within the writing of your assignments see Chapter 9 of the Study skills handbook. There are many formal guides to APA referencing, you will find links to some of these under the APA Guides tab.