REFERENCING HELP - Is re:cite reliable?

[katiesaliba]

Hey guys,

I always follow UOM's 're:cite' website when referencing, however I was told by an academic skills advisor not to use it due to its apparent inaccuracy. Thoughts? Surely I'm not going to lose marks for following a resource that UOM has provided...

[CossieG]

I've used it for all my assignments previously that needed proper referencing. Never lost marks on referencing.

Hope that helps you

[Stick]

Hey guys,

I always follow UOM's 're:cite' website when referencing, however I was told by an academic skills advisor not to use it due to its apparent inaccuracy. Thoughts? Surely I'm not going to lose marks for following a resource that UOM has provided...

If it was really inaccurate, you'd think Academic Skills would get onto the university library team to get it fixed up given the incredibly large volume of students relying on it to reference their work (or, at the very least, make it well known to the student body). :S Personally, I haven't had any problems using the re:cite website. That's really confusing to hear. :S

[literally lauren]

Re:cite's always been totally accurate for me. There've been times when I've had to look up proper Style Guides (eg this one for MLA) because I'm doing something really specific like citing two texts by the same author, or a series of letters someone wrote, etc. But I've never been pulled up for incorrect formatting and I use re:cite every time.

Perhaps your adviser was talking about this function on the Discovery site:

where if you're looking at an article or other resource and click 'Cite' on the side, it brings up a list of references for all the different styles. This one, I usually have problems with It's only ever something small, like incorrect capitalisation, or a space/punctuation mark where it doesn't belong, but for MLA, APA, Harvard and Chicago which are the only one's I've ever used, I have to double check that info every time because one in every three or so will have a mistake.

In the unlikely event you do get pulled up for 'incorrect' referencing, I'd just contact your tutor or subject coordinator and be like 'Yo, re:cite told me otherwise.'

[katiesaliba]

In the unlikely event you do get pulled up for 'incorrect' referencing, I'd just contact your tutor or subject coordinator and be like 'Yo, re:cite told me otherwise.'

I almost want to lose marks for referencing so that I can send my tutor that^ HAHAHA

Quick question: Are online references (website, blog, online newspaper source, etc.) NEVER included in the bibliography for the Chicago Manual of Style? Thanks

[literally lauren]

Quick question: Are online references (website, blog, online newspaper source, etc.) NEVER included in the bibliography for the Chicago Manual of Style? Thanks

They're a little buried in the UoM guide here but I always put them in the bibliography just in case. I believe if you're only citing it once then it's not required... I've only done a couple of essays using the Chicago style, but I tended to mention everything in the bibliography out of habit.

Sacrilege though it may be, the Monash guide here shows you how to do so, but it seems like a more optional inclusion anyway so I doubt you'd get told off either way

[mahler004]

Suggest using Endnote.

It's kind of annoying to set up, but once you've set it up you'll never worried about referencing again.

[vox nihili]

Suggest using Endnote.

It's kind of annoying to set up, but once you've set it up you'll never worried about referencing again.

Second this.

First time I used EndNote it was dreadful. But after I got used to it, it made referencing wonderfully easy (yeah basically because I didn't have to reference anymore because of it...)