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THE ROLE OF REFERENCING IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING

The Role of Referencing in Scientific Writing Referencing can be considered as a systematic and scientific technique to define a source of data by presenting a set of information that facilitates a particular text to be easily identified, sought and retrieved. Though referencing would specifically refer to information sources that are included within a scientific paper, the detailed list of sources is presented within the bibliography. There are several styles of referencing that have been in use in the medical, scientific and other domains which would include:- Vancouver The Harvard and APA referencing styles would comprise of including the name of the author and the year of publication while the Vancouver style involves the use of numbers to denote a reference. APA ( American Psychological Association ) Harvard University The Problems The increased number of diverse fields of data for every single material that can be cited often gives rise to re