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182 STUDY SKILLS FOR PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS
Exercise A.1 When is a reference required?
1 When you quote exactly what someone said in speech marks
2 When you draw on information from another specific source
3 When describing a theory originated by someone else
4 When you include tables, figures or diagrams from another publication
in your assignment
5 When you incorporate data from another study
6 When you identify original references that you have not read
(secondary sources) from something you have actually read (primary
source)
7 When you collect together material from a number of sources and
paraphrase it
8 When you copy and paste items from websites
9 When you want to refer to something you saw in a newspaper
10 When you use material from a textbook
11 When summarizing facts that are part of general knowledge
See Appendix 2 for the answer.
Quotations
Yes No
Short quotations, of fewer than 40 words, should be enclosed in double quotation
marks and incorporated in the text. For example:
Nijstad, Stroebe and Lodewijkx (2006) conclude that “people produce more ideas when
working alone as compared to when working in a group” (p. 31).
Longer quotations, of 40 words or more, should be started on a new line and
indented by about 1.25 cm. For example: