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Engineering: Referencing

LRC Referencing Guide

Hints and tips with referencing

referencing

If you can't find it use the right abbreviation

Abbreviations you can use when you can't locate all the referencing details:

No author is given use [Anon.]

No date of publication is given use [n.d.]

No place of publication is given use [s.l.]

No publisher is given use [s.n.]

Something other is not known use [n.k.]

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To et al. or not to et al.

Only use et al. in the main part of your assignment when there are 3 or more authors.