using wrong reference stlye.

khan1 · 22-04-2013 04:28PM #1

Hey guys, I am a student at Smurfit Business School. In my individual assignment, I used Chicago referencing style with footnotes instead of the Harvard referencing style. One of my colleagues told me just now that we had to use the Harvard referencing. I am a bit tensed right now. Will the lecturer deduct marks because of this? I referenced everything correctly just used the wrong style. I put so much effort into this assignment and I will be so gutted if they deduct marks because of this.

Red Alert · 22-04-2013 09:03PM

What did it say on the assignment you were given? (I'm sure you realise that you'll have to have marks deducted, if you didn't follow the requirements. Harsh but fair!)

khan1 · 22-04-2013 09:20PM

Red Alert wrote: »

What did it say on the assignment you were given? (I'm sure you realise that you'll have to have marks deducted, if you didn't follow the requirements. Harsh but fair!)

The lecturer did not tell us which reference style we had to use. If it was written in the guidelines that we needed to use Harvard style referencing in our essay then I would have used that one. Do you think it will be a case in my favor in case the lecturer deduct marks for that?

geetar · 22-04-2013 09:39PM

khan1 wrote: »

The lecturer did not tell us which reference style we had to use. If it was written in the guidelines that we needed to use Harvard style referencing in our essay then I would have used that one. Do you think it will be a case in my favor in case the lecturer deduct marks for that?

id say your grand, but email him/her just in case. harvard style is the usual for UCD, so it would normally be expected, but since the reason for referencing is to avoid plagarism, i cant see why they would make any deal out of it since you did actually reference your work.

Sugar Free · 22-04-2013 10:13PM

In my experience they won't care unless it's a thesis submission or was specifically noted in the assignment guidelines.

Once it's been systematically entered using EndNote or similiar you'll be fine.

Red Alert · 23-04-2013 09:02AM

I'd imagine there wouldn't be any marks implication unless the assignment itself said specifically what referencing style to use.

triseke · 28-04-2013 10:49PM

khan1 wrote: »

Hey guys, I am a student at Smurfit Business School. In my individual assignment, I used Chicago referencing style with footnotes instead of the Harvard referencing style. One of my colleagues told me just now that we had to use the Harvard referencing. I am a bit tensed right now. Will the lecturer deduct marks because of this? I referenced everything correctly just used the wrong style. I put so much effort into this assignment and I will be so gutted if they deduct marks because of this.

In my experience, they are pretty harsh on referencing and the ilk. Every module should have a set of guidelines handed out at the beginning of the semester, which details what referencing style to use. Each department tends to use different methods. I used Harvard style all the way through, but friends of mine doing history and classics used a completely different style, which I had no experience off.

Email your lecturer and explain what happened. I would be surprised if you didn't get penalised. Best of Luck!

Red Alert · 30-04-2013 04:10PM

It helps if you use something like EndNote - you can flick referencing styles even after you've finished. (Maybe you're using it already? There's a huge number of people who still do it the old way!)

Mycroft H · 01-05-2013 07:52PM

I never got my head round end note. Manually referenced my dissertation. Pain in the backside.

using wrong reference stlye.

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