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Referencing

In this section, you will find resources to help you manage your references. These include guidance on the APA referencing system, and links to reference management tools.

 

Citation Tools


Proper citation is necessary to avoid plagiarism if we reuse the idea or information from the others in academic writing. In this section, we would like to introduce some tools that can help us to generate proper citations easily.

Citation Generators
Our Library's OneSearch and many databases provide build-in citation generators with popular citation styles. Alternatively, you can also consider using online citation generators.

Citation Style Referencing Guide@English Language Centre
A webpage created by PolyU ELC providing guidelines for APA, Harvard, IEEE, and Vancouver styles.

Reference Management Tools
Here are more tools that allow you to manage your references, and to insert citations and reference list in your assignment using the citation style you wish to use within seconds.

Reference Management Tools


If you have to deal with many references in your assignment or course of research, it would be effective to make use of reference management tools to help you. Reference management tools are software that can help you to:

  • Organize, annotate and manage your references.
  • Import references from online databases, library catalogs, websites, and PDFs.
  • Create in-text citations and formatted bibliographies within seconds
  • Share references with other researchers.
  • Work on your references anytime, anywhere.

You may refer to the following resources to learn how these tools can help: