Interactive Examples
Click below to test yourself on citation and referencing techniques (based on an idea by Indiana University).
Example 1 (of 12)
Source text
Today, the tables are turning. The growing accessibility of information technologies puts the tools required to collaborate, create value, and compete at everybody's fingertips. This liberates people to participate in innovation and wealth creation within every sector of the economy.
Quoted from pages 10-11 of Tapscott and Williams (2006) Wikinomics: How mass collaboration changes everything
Extract from Kin's assignment
The growing accessibility of information technologies puts the tools required to collaborate, create value, and compete at everybody's fingertips.
[No reference list]
Kin is writing an assignment about digital media and collaboration. Read the source text and extract from his assignment above.
Has Kin adequately followed the conventions of citation and referencing?
Feedback
In this situation, Kin has quoted someone else’s words without acknowledgement. To cite and reference correctly, Kin needs to: 1) add quotation marks around the quoted words; 2) add an in-text citation; 3) indicate the page number of the quoted words; and 4) include information about the source in the reference list.