Answered By: Brian O'Donnell
Last Updated: Feb 12, 2025     Views: 432

The Library offers training in referencing, citation and plagiarism. The library offers online and in-person classes during the semester on a range of topics, including referencing. Your lecturer may also request a referencing class with a librarian, often at the beginning of a semester.

See the links below for guides and resources the library provides around referencing. The Write it Right guide focuses on Harvard style only, while the Cite Them Right database includes all of the main referencing style.


When you write an assignment at TUS you are required to indicate that you have used the ideas and written material belonging to other authors in your own work both in the text of your assignment and in a reference list at the end of your assignment. This practice of acknowledging authors is known as referencing.

There are many different referencing systems widely used in academic writing. TUS Midwest acknowledges 2 systems:

  • Author- Date systems commonly known as Harvard or APA (American Psychological Association)
  • Numerical systems sometimes referred to as Footnoting, Endnoting or Vancouver.

There are two parts to the author-date system of referencing.

  • The author and the date are referred to in the text or main body of your writing (this is called ‘citing’ or ‘in text referencing’)
  • All of the resources referred to in the body of the writing are included in the reference list at the end of the assignment.

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