Referencing
Reading and writing
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Reading - Achieve@UniGet more tips for reading from this Achieve@Uni guide
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Note-taking - Achieve@UniLearn how to take effective notes from your readings and lectures that will help you revise later.
Referencing
Criminology and legal studies are interdisciplinary in nature: because of this you are likely to encounter a range of referencing styles in your studies. At La Trobe University the main styles you will encounter are the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC) and American Psychological Association style (APA).
Check with your lecturer or tutor if you're not sure which style to use: and make sure you use a single style consistently within a piece of work, rather than a combination of styles.
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Referencing - Achieve@UniLearn why it's important to acknowledge information, find tools to help you get your referencing right every time, and get answers to your referencing FAQs.
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Academic Referencing Tool (ART) - APA7This links directly to the APA7 section of the ART, which includes examples of rules for in-text referencing of the most common resources types you will encounter.
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Using citation generators responsibly - Purdue OWLCitation generators can help you get started with referencing, but they often generate incorrect citations. You should always check the accuracy of any generated citation, even one from La Trobe Library's collection search against the rule in the ART. Read more at this resource from Purdue University in the USA.
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Indigenous Knowledges Referencing Guide (APA7)The Guide is designed to provide referencing guidance for undergraduate students when citing Indigenous knowledges in academic writing.
More than just a referencing guide, the document provides decision making tools for assessing content to use in your assignments as well as a guide to referencing Indigenous resources.
Key tips for referencing
Citation Politics
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Reference lists as sites of diversity? Citations matter by Deborah M. Netolicky (2018)Reflections and resources on citation practices in the field of education.
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for the reader – citations, reference lists, tables of contents and indexes by Pat ThompsonReflections on citations as signposts for readers as well as politics and performativity in citation practices.
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Citation Power: Overcoming marginalization one citation at a timeThis chapter describes citation justice in detail and why it is important for students to understand and incorporate it in academia.
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Are citations political?Join a recorded expert panel as they discuss citation politics as part of Monash Diversity and Inclusion Week 2020.
Consider the following questions from Netolicky (2018) when looking at reference lists:
- How does this list situate my work in the field? With what kind of scholarship am I aligning my work?
- From what nations, cultures and classes do my references come?
- To what extent do they represent Euro- or Anglo- centric ways of knowing and being?
- What is the gender mix of my reference list?
- Whose voices are silent?
- Whose scholarship have I ignored or excluded?