When using information found in books, on the web or from other sources in your assignment, you need to reference the sources correctly to:
Use the guides below to reference in a particular style.
The reference management tools below make saving your references and generating reference lists in various styles easy.
In many cases the guides above will be enough to get your referencing right. But if you want more comprehensive guides to authorship here are some more ideas:
Check out these style manuals and other guides to writing from the Library's resources.
Find and learn about more citation styles from plagiarism.org
Reference management tools allow you to store and manage the references that you gather in the course of your research. Most of these tools share the following common features:
Contact your Faculty Librarian for help and support, or if you would like to organise a workshop for a group of your classmates.
EndNote is installed on all computers in the Library and is available to Bond students and staff to use on personal computers and laptops. There are two ways to obtain the EndNote software:
The EndNote Library Guide will help you learn about EndNote.
Similar to RefWorks and EndNote, Mendeley has additional social features, acting as an academic social network.
It is free to use but has paid plans for users who require more storage space. Bond University has access to the Mendeley Institutional Edition providing increased personal and shared storage and unlimited groups of up to 100 members.
Your Mendeley account can be integrated into the Resource List system.
RefWorks is a cloud-based tool allowing users to access their accounts on any device. If you wish to create a RefWorks account follow these steps:
Once registered, you will be able to log in from the RefWorks homepage. Then read the ‘Welcome to RefWorks Quickstart Guide’ available from the ‘All Documents’ folder within RefWorks. More help is available from RefWorks Support Centre.
Your Refworks folders can be integrated with the Resource List system for easy list building and exporting of citations.
Another reference management tool that you might want to try is Zotero. The Library and IT Services do not provide training or support for Zotero. It is a free application, with connectors for both Chrome and Firefox. As you browse the web the connectors allow you to save a citation to Zotero.
You can integrate your Zotero library in the Resource List system for easy building of lists.
EndNote is installed on all computers in the Library and is available to Bond students and staff to use on personal computers and laptops. There are two ways to obtain the EndNote software:
The EndNote Library Guide will help you learn about EndNote.
Similar to RefWorks and EndNote, Mendeley has additional social features, acting as an academic social network.
It is free to use but has paid plans for users who require more storage space. Bond University has access to the Mendeley Institutional Edition providing increased personal and shared storage and unlimited groups of up to 100 members.
Your Mendeley account can be integrated into the Resource List system.
RefWorks is a cloud-based tool allowing users to access their accounts on any device. If you wish to create a RefWorks account follow these steps:
Once registered, you will be able to log in from the RefWorks homepage. Then read the ‘Welcome to RefWorks Quickstart Guide’ available from the ‘All Documents’ folder within RefWorks. More help is available from RefWorks Support Centre.
Your Refworks folders can be integrated with the Resource List system for easy list building and exporting of citations.
Another reference management tool that you might want to try is Zotero. The Library and IT Services do not provide training or support for Zotero. It is a free application, with connectors for both Chrome and Firefox. As you browse the web the connectors allow you to save a citation to Zotero.
You can integrate your Zotero library in the Resource List system for easy building of lists.
