1 Reference in the text

For each quote or paraphrase, you list a brief reference to the source from which the quote was taken or on which your paraphrase is based. This reference consists of the surname of the author and the year of publication.

You will need to put a quote between quotation marks and mention the page number(s) in your reference.

You can list your reference either after the quote or paraphrase, or in the main body of the text itself.

In the main body of the text (paraphrase): author (year)

In the main body of the text (quote): author (year) “text” (page).

After the quoted text (paraphrase): text (author, year).

After the quoted text (quote): “text” (author, year, page).

 

To bear in mind

 

Surnames regularly contain a prefix. These are listed before the main part of the surname (including Dutch surnames), for example:


De Boer, F.
De Coninck, H.
De Crescenzo, Luciano