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CBM & FBM: support for your undergraduate dissertation

A dissertation guide for Part 3 Consumer Behaviour & Marketing and Food Business & Marketing students in the School of Agriculture, Policy and Development

Referencing, formatting and abbreviations

It's important to reference, format figues and tables and write abbreviations in the correct way - it's all part of scientific writing.

These pages have information and help on;

Referencing

Formatting figures and tables, and abbreviations

Reference management software

You may wish to consider using a reference management software package to help organize your references and to insert them into your work and create a bibliography. This can save you a great deal of time if you are working with large numbers of references. The University supports both Endnote and Mendeley. You can find more details from the links below together with lots of help and guidance.

Managing references using Mendeley

Managing references using Endnote

Managing references - general guidance