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 Emma's assignment
These days the growing accessibility of information technologies puts the tools required to collaborate at everybody's fingertips. People now are liberated to participate in innovation and wealth creation within every sector of the economy.
Reference list
Tapscott, D., & Williams, A. D. (2006). Wikinomics: How mass collaboration changes everything. New York: Portfolio.
Emma is writing an assignment about digital media and collaboration. Read the source text and extract from her assignment above.
Has Emma adequately followed the conventions of citation and referencing?
Feedback
Although Emma has made minor changes to the original text, she has failed to use her own words and there are two quoted passages which have not been acknowledged. Emma still needs to: 1) add quotation marks around the quoted words; 2) add an in-text citation; and 3) indicate the page number of the quoted words.