Proofreading Advice : Referencing and Citations

You’ve checked the spelling, grammar, and punctuation. You’ve made sure the language flows well and that it is appropriately academic. Now comes your favourite bit. Perhaps you’d like to dress up a little and pour yourself a glass of wine (alcohol-free, of course: don’t drink and proofread!) before you settle…

Remember when you used to get ‘Too Hot for TV’ videos of your favourite salacious TV shows? Remember how exciting they were? Well, prepare to feel that kind of excitement again in this brief introduction to MHRA referencing: a system considered Too Hot for the Proofreading Academy Course. Actually, we…

Sound the celebratory trombone and strike the ritual tambourine. It’s referencing time again! And today we’re concluding our series on how to cite edited books using common referencing systems. In this post we’re going to look at Chicago referencing. There are two versions of this system: Author–date citations and a…

We’re sorry. We know it’s been hard. We’ve made you wait, trembling with anticipation, for the next exciting instalment of our occasional series on referencing. A while ago we showed you how edited books should be cited in Harvard and APA styles, and then we left you hanging. Perhaps your…