Reference Psyte

Welcome to Reference Psyte, the site for psychology students in the UK, hosted by the University of Huddersfield. The website is currently being reviewed and modified so watch for new additions and revisions and also competitions with Prizes.

This website is designed to assist you in developing your skills in summary, citation and referencing in order to help you with coursework such as essays and laboratory reports. The examples and discussion are all psychology specific in order to encourage your skill development clearly located in your chosen discipline - psychology.

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Why referencing is important?

Referencing is an academic convention, a clear way in which you demonstrate your understanding of psychology as a discipline. You can thus manage your discussion of theory, opinion, and research evidence in a manner which clearly demonstrates your acknowledgement of the valuable work of others, you can also clearly differentiate between research evidence, theory and opinion and clearly differentiate between your work and the work of others.

Imagine that you have spent ten years of your life researching an important aspect of psychology, you have lived in relative poverty and limited your leisure time and activities, devoting your time to this endeavour. However when you come to publish you find that someone else has stolen your ideas without any acknowledgement to you. In simpler terms imagine that you complete your final year dissertation project in psychology but two years later you find that another student has stolen this project, submitted it as their own at another university and claimed their psychology honours degree without any of the hard work you completed during your final year.

Therefore summary, citation and referencing are important skills in demonstrating you understand scientific and publication conventions in the discipline of psychology; allow your lecturers to fairly grade your work as a reflection of your efforts; and avoid plagiarism.

The website contains a number of sections with clear guidance on the following topics: