The referencing style you will be expected to use in Psychology is APA, if you study any modules from another school please ask your module leader which referencing style you are expected to use for that school.
There are lots of copies of the current APA referencing style guidelines available in the library Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition. (Your lecturers won't mind if you use the 6th or 7th edition guidelines). Unfortunately there is no ebook of this book available to buy for institutions, despite personal e-book purchase options being available, however there are supplementary e-book APA guides available to help support you such as:
Cite them right A clear online guide to referencing with lots of examples and walkthroughs of different citation styles, including APA.
or one of these online guides:
There is a tool built into library search which will format citations for you as you find new material, this includes an APA style option. Make sure you always double check the citation before using it in your work as, like all auto generated information, there can sometimes be errors.
you can find out more about this tool in the 'first assignment' pages.
Referencing is part of the wider topic of academic integrity which is an essential part of academic life. Academic integrity underpins good practice and values such as honesty, trust and respect. You can find information and activities to help you understand the importance of these values and how to ensure your work meets the University's expectations in relation to plagiarism and collusion on the LET teams pages, there is also extra support on referencing available from the LET team:
once you are feeling confident that you understand referencing and can do it manually you may want to investigate using reference management tools for longer pieces of work like dissertations. Find out about reference management software and collaborative working apps plus software and browser extensions in your Digital Toolkit.
You can also learn more about how to get started using one of the most popular reference management tools Zotero in the following video
Please visit the following guides for copyright guidance depending on if you are a member of staff or student:
Please also see the UEA web pages available from the Information Compliance team.
