Notes, References, and Resources
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The body of your Wiki Reports should contain sections and headings (that you select) to help with the overall flow and organization of your report. In addition to this, each report should contain three sections at the end of your report, in the order provided below.
Notes
Use Footnotes, if and when needed, to add material that explains a point in greater detail, but that would be distracting if included in the main text.
- To create a footnote, place this code: <ref> YOUR NOTE TEXT </ref> where you want a footnote reference number to appear in an article. (Type the text of your note between the ref tags, where I've written "YOUR NOTE TEXT."
- This text will then appear in a "Notes" section at the bottom of your report if you:
- Create a section towards the bottom of your Wiki Report that you label "Notes."
- Under your "Notes" section, write this code: <references /> . This code will automatically generate a list of your notes.
References
Use Harvard referencing (also known as the author-date system, or parenthetical system) to cite your sources. Under the Harvard referencing system, a book (or article, etc.) is cited in the text in parentheses, after the section, sentence, or paragraph for which the book was used as a source, using the surname of the author and the year of publication only, with the parentheses closing before the period, as in (Author 2005). A complete citation is then placed at the end of the text in an alphabetized list of "References".
Many citation and reference style guidelines for Harvard referencing can be found online. See for example, Wikipedia: Harvard Referencing and Citing your sources - Harvard style from The University of Western Australia. Note that interviews and personal communication are generally documented in the text, such as, "When interviewed on 8 August 1998 J Carr responded..." Details of a personal communication do not need to be included in a reference list.
Resources
Your reports should also include links to relevant web-based materials that help illustrate the issues and examples addressed in the report, and/or that provide a useful resource for those interested in following up on the topic. These links should be included and referenced in the body of the report where appropriate, and at the end of the report in a section called "Resources." In the "Resources" section, please provide a bulleted list that includes the relevant links and a short description of each resource.
