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So what I'm going to do is reference this report in my writing and show you different ways of doing it I've also got up this second page which is free for everybody to look at it's the BCU Harvard referencing guide it is my go-to for everything because it was just so easy to understand and if you click on electronic sources for example it's got all these different types of resources so we are using a report is it a PDF it's not a PDF it's just from the website so but it is like a report so I'm going to click on report and this says electronic reports in PDF format but this isn't a PDF format so we're going to scroll down to get something that's not in PDF format so this is not a PDF format but it is electronic report so I'm going to follow this description here which I've highlighted way too much and but it says there look it gives you the exact example on this it says write the author write the year write the title in italics because it's got that and it's got a little full stop so you need to put a little full stop at the end of it it's got brackets for the years you need to put the brackets this is how you write it like exactly like this and then it gives an example here done easy simple to follow I'm ready I've got up my report on the left of split my screen so you can see like like what I'm doing here so I've got this is what I've just been looking at the report I've taken and summarized this section here on my document so how do I reference that doesn't matter about the word in and things like that that I've just written write it however you want to write it as long as the information is correct there's two different ways to cite this in your main body so I can either put in brackets here UK health security agency comma 2021 because it's 2022 to help if I could actually spell like that that's it that's your reference done for that that's all you need to do and then you're going to add your reference list at the end so reference list at the end of your assignment end of your PowerPoint wherever you put your reference list put it at the end as well as in your body so in your main body you should have this UK health secretary agency 2022 then at the end you're putting the full citation so you're going to use this UK health secretary agency is going there again you're going to have brackets around the 2022 remove that we're going to go back just to check so we're going to authorship that's the author UK health secretary agency security keep staying secretary security agency is security right security yeah UK health security agency 2022 yeah is in brackets like it says so the title you're going to go back sexually transmitted and that is your title talix yep there you go it's done in italics available at available which is not italics yep and then you're going to copy and paste the URL this is the URL it's the website information at the top the white so if you're going to use YouTube do not use YouTube but www.youtube.com for example this is www.gov.uk forward slash all the rest of the jazz so you're going to copy and paste that into there there you go and then so that's your URL and then access date after is the URL so access what is today's date 12th of February 2023 full stop and that is your reference so you've got like I said in the body your reference to show where that's come from then your reference list at the end is going to have the full shabam the full whack of where to find this information so people can go and check your information is correct and people do check so make sure it's correct and that's how you reference so the second way to reference like I was saying there's two ways to do this this is just one way putting at the end of a sentence that you've got is one way the other way which is a really good way as well is so recent statistics from the UK health security agency 2022 and then obviously if you're not a Birmingham City University student bcu that's what that means bcu student and make sure you're using your own university Harvard reference and guide make sure it matches this guide because every university has a different style of Harvard references you want to make sure that you're meeting your university standards don't get it wrong please is my big tip but I use bcu for everything and I always have done even when I was at a different university I use bcu guidelines because I just found it's so easy man look how easy this website is it's just so simple easy to understand to do your reference but I always went back so I went to warm a few university as well to do my GP course I use bcu but then I checked it against those guidelines to make sure it was the same sort of structure and style and luckily it was so just double check that before you do anything but this is really really good this Harvard referencing guide is really good and it's got everything so if you want a printed book you got printed books chapters reports directories all sorts in here music sources other sources in tech size citations so it's got a whole page on how to cite in your text which is this part here on the word document that's how you're citing in the text in your main body that's where you're putting your reference to start with and then on the reference list of this just shows you how to do it let me just click on one just to see so yeah exactly what I've done here that is a direct direct incitation there's indirectly is putting at the end like I said here those are the two examples of doing it they're the best two examples the several sources so you would use et al sometimes depending if you've got two or three then that's okay you can do it like this but if you've got a report that's got like ten different offers on it so let me just try and find something so STI STI rates UK let's go Google scholar hopefully I'm gonna find something for you yeah so here this one's a really good example so this is an article that's on STI risk perceptions and all that jazz and this has got one two three four five six seven eight nine that's got nine offers you're not gonna put all those names down in your main body that's gonna bulk out your word count so what you would do is just put the first one and then et al so I'm gonna do this one here so do a separate one so Clifton because that's the surname it usually goes first name and surname on these so just put Clifton et al comma 20 what is this 2018 they go 2018 so you can do it like that as well and then in the main body down here you will have to list all of those people so you would put Clifton s Johnson am dot and then the year what did we say 2018 and then you would go on to doing exactly this what's above so copy and paste I usually copy and paste just because it's easier but it will come out like that so you need to put it back to normal where's the little thing that little thing there send it back to normal and so you're doing it like that and let's go back three or more offers just like it says on here et al after the first offer and that's what you do Kim et al 2007 and that's how you would do it in here so up here instead of health secretary agency you would go Clifton et al 2018 and then you would just remove that one obviously it's gonna be different information because it's a different different paper but this is just an example to show you different ways of referencing when it's got more than one or two or three offers even if it's got two you can just put like Adam and Smith 2018 but if it's got three or more you're not gonna want to write that like I said so you literally just do it like that Clifton et al 2018 and then in the main body bit you're gonna put all of the names down and then all of this yes so going back to my authors when you've got loads of offers all these commas and dots and things like that so this is how you want it to look like this when you've got more than one on this page here so you go the surname comma then the initial and then you can put dot if it's got two so in here I should have put a dot sorry it's got two initials they go dot and then you put full stop comma I think I did it the other way around actually tonight there you go full stop comma see when I get these little things the other way around I mean does it really matter where you put your comma if you put the comma in the dot are you gonna get penalized for it I'm not sure should look something like that so it should look something like this anyway this BCU guide so this is on this the style guide so I went to this page here in tech citations and then style guide and when you click on style guide it comes up with this so it shows you example reference list and it's got it here to show you all the different ways to to put it it's just it's so easy to understand if you just take some time to get your head around it and read it and look at it and practice you'll be well aware you'll be referencing in your sleep like in no time honestly so back to this reference anyway because this is a journal article so this is a journal article it does have a DIYs you can press it as well I always press the link to make sure it opens and make sure it works there you go that's it look and this will have the full DIY here the HTTPS there to put on here so I'll go back and I'm gonna check my guide again nope not that one so authorship we've got all the authors we've got the year yes we've got the article title yes we've got the journal title article title full stop journal title so what is the journal title the journal article is e clinical clinical medicine as you can see I misspell a lot of things all of the time so yeah so we've got that so what's the next thing so journal title comma oops comma let's go back to this page journal title comma yet the volume and issue so what is the volume and issue so I'm gonna come to this page because usually this one's got a lot yet there you go volume to hasn't got an issue number so I'm gonna do volume to article identifier think is the page number you normally put the page number so that'd be this 22 to 29 to 36 so 29 to 36 is the identifier because that's the page number so you've got the journal title the volume and the page number so that they can find it and then what we're gonna do full stop available at DOI done when you've got a DOI you don't need to put an access date so you know with this first one we put access date you don't need to do that if you've got a DOI but if you haven't got a DOI page or number then you have to put an access date at the end of it as well so yeah we're gonna go back and do this in italics as well because your journals should be in italics so if it's a journal your journal title should be the one in italics if it's not a journal and it's something else it should be the the title of that like the first one sexually transmitted infections that bit got highlighted because it's not a journal on this it's the journal title that gets highlighted so they're the two differences between articles and website reports and that sort of thing so that is how you would reference that and I'm gonna stop talking now because I feel like I've chewed your ear off about referencing I don't even know how long this video is gonna be probably about 30 minutes on referencing I'm so sorry if this video is that long but I hope you've got something from it and I hope you all have an amazing day any more videos I can do that you think will be really good you want to know a bit more about put a comment below as always don't forget to look in the description as well because my new book is coming out come on I'm gonna be plugging this into every video now it is available for pre-order it's great for student nurses just starting out on the nursing journey it's got all the tips from start to finish so please go and check it out and I'll see you next time