It is good academic practice to acknowledge another person's work in your own essay, dissertation or article, giving full details of your source. You risk being accused of 'poor academic practice or plagiarism if you fail to do so.
UoR Computer Science department recommends using the APA style, but you can choose another style such as Harvard as long as you are consistent. Find out more:
For help with citing specific types of publication contact Rachel Redrup, your Academic Liaison Librian. For advice on using references in your work to support your arguments, consult referencing guidance on the Study Advice website or make an appointment
An internet search can retrieve a wide range of different publication types. It is important that you know how to recognise these to help you judge their reliability and suitability for use in your assignments, and to know how to reference them.
Watch this short video from our Academic Liaison Team which will help you become a digital detective and use clues to help you recognise different sources in your results.
LaTeX is a tool you may have been advised to use to format your papers or other written work. If you use LaTeX you may also choose to use BibTeX as an alternative to Endnote for managing your references and inserting your citations.
We have books about how to use LaTeX in the Library - you can find them in Enterprise. A few are listed below.
LaTex beginner's guide by 
LaTeX and Friends by 
When you do your dissertation, consider using reference management software to organise and store references, then insert citations and build a bibliography in your Word document. The Library supports two reference tools in particular we think are accurate - EndNote and Mendeley. For information on these and other options see our guide to Managing references:
We also have specific a guide for using EndNote:
