work project

REFERENCING

CSCI 303– Technical Communication for Computer Professionals

Outline

 Referencing

 Citations

 Importance

 How to Find Articles

 Related Work

 Reference Management Systems

Referencing

Referencing includes:

 A citation within your text

 A detailed reference information.

Referencing

 Choose a style

 Identify the resource

 Collect information

 Write your reference list

Referencing - Citation Format

 Humanities

◼ MLA

◼ Chicago

 Social science

◼ APA

◼ CBE

 Computer Science

◼ ACM

◼ IEEE

Citation

Book:

 Author’s initials. Author’s Surname, Book Title, edition (if not first). Place of publication: Publisher, Year.

 Author’s initials. Author’s Surname, “chapter title,” in Book Title, edition (if not first), Editor’s initials.

Editor’s Surname, Ed. Place of publication: Publisher, Year, page numbers.

Journal:

 Author’s initials. Author’s Surname, “Title of article,” Title of journal abbreviated in Italics, vol. number,

issue number, page numbers, Abbreviated Month Year.

Citation

Referencing - Importance

 Allow the reader to find the source of your information

 Avoid plagiarism by acknowledging that you’ve used the ideas and

work of others

 Strengthen and add credibility to your arguments

 Demonstrates the depth and the breadth of your research

Related Work

How to Find Articles

 Online Search

 TAMUC Library

 Google Scholar

Google Scholar

Related Work

 What recent advances or interesting ideas are there?

 what have others done?

 what have others not done yet?

Related Work

From: The language of programming: a cognitive perspective

Related Work

From: What is Cybersecurity and what Cybersecurity Skills Employers are Seeking?

Reference Management Systems

Reference Management Systems

 Microsoft Reference Manager

 Mendeley

 Endnote

 Zotero

 https://www.citethisforme.com/

Mendeley

Zotero

Zotero

Zotero