Referencing | Academic Skills Kit

What do you need to reference?

You need to reference every time you use the work of others. This could include:

• ideas
• words
• data
• designs
• images
• music
• computer code

Whatever the information source: website, textbook, journal article, magazine, newspaper, YouTube Video, or social media site, if you have quoted, paraphrased or summarised another person’s work, you need to reference it.

However, you do not need to reference commonly known facts, for example:

"Newcastle upon Tyne is in the North East of England".