Nursing and Health Sciences Subject Guide

The Library & Learning Centre provides an overview of referencing techniques and standards via the Cite Them Right website. This will provide templates for referencing books, journal articles, webpages etc using Harvard referencing style.

Some useful links in cite them right:

Elements of a reference

Cite them right tutorial

Top ten tips

Or if you prefer we also have copies of the hard copies of the Cite Them Right book at all of our libraries.

If you prefer to create your references and citations manually, the Good Referencing Guide below helps guide you through all the various types of resources that you may want to use in your assignments.

We would always recommend that you use Cite them right online to make sure that you are referencing is accurate. 

MyBiB

MyBib is a new FREE bibliography and citation generator that makes accurate citations for you to copy straight into your academic assignments and papers.

1. Set up an account to save references
2. Make sure you choose the correct referencing style [for Harvard, please choose Cite Them Right, 12th edition - Harvard (no "et al.")]
3. Set up projects for each assignment; this means you can duplicate references across different projects
4. you'll need to know what type of resource it is e.g. book, journal article, webpage etc.
5. it can help tell you if the website is a credible source of information
6. create reference list and citations that can easily be copied or downloaded directly into Word
7. if you are referencing a website, remember to add the accessed date

This works really well for books and journal articles.

Find your resource in Library Search, Click on " (citation button)

Click on Cite them right - Harvard

Copy and Paste reference into essay.

REMEMBER, to double check the reference format against Cite Them Right. e.g. authors - all authors should be listed, use et al. in citation when more than 3 authors.

Q. How do I reference the nmc code?

A. When you are referencing/citing an organisation which is abbreviated, you have to write the Author out in full in the reference:

Nursing and Midwifery Council [NMC] (2018) The code. Available at: https://www.nmc.org.uk/standards/code/ (Accessed: 15 May 2023)

But as long as you add the abbreviation in brackets, then you can cite

(Nursing and Midwifery Council [NMC], 2018) the first time then every other time cite as (NMC, 2018)

This same principle applies to National Institute of Health and Care Excellence [NICE], Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network [SIGN], Royal College of Nursing [RCN], World Health Organization [WHO] etc.

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