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Law

Referencing style for Law 

The referencing style for Law is OSCOLA, if you study any modules outside of Law please ask your module leader which referencing style you are expected to use. The cite them right guide below will introduce you to a range of styles as well as OSCOLA. 

  • Cite them right  A clear online guide to referencing with lots of examples and walkthroughs of different citation styles, including OSCOLA.

  • UEA Referencing LET  The UEA Learning Enhancement Team's website, has lots of useful information and study guides for referencing, paraphrasing and quoting sources.
  • Plagiarism awareness A useful guide on Plagiarism

Academic integrity 

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: 

LET integrity and referencing

LET integrity sway 

Reference management tools 

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.

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 

Intro to Zotero

Copyright

Please visit the following guides for copyright guidance depending on if you are a member of staff or student:

Copyright for staff

Copyright for students

Please also see the UEA web pages available from the Information Compliance team