Biomedical and Life Sciences: Referencing

Reference management systems such as EndNote can help you reference accurately and quickly. 

EndNote online is recommended for BLS students doing research projects.

• Gather references from different sources, such as OneSearch, Web of Science and PubMed
• Capture webpages
• Organise and store your PDFs and links
• Format your bibliography in the Lancaster University Library Harvard style
• Use with Word to insert citations into your writing
• Deduplicate reference libraries

Biomedical & Life Sciences students are expected to reference in the Harvard, or Author-Date style. Harvard has many variations.

We recommend the Harvard (Lancaster University Library) style.

We've created an online guide and a printable guide with lots of useful information about the Harvard (Lancaster University Library) style:

Harvard (Lancaster University Library) online guide

• Referencing and the Harvard style
• How to cite sources within the text
• How to reference sources in your reference list
• Paraphrasing
• Using the style with EndNote software

 At Lancaster you have access to Cite Them Right : the essential guide to referencing and plagiarism.

Cite Them Right covers the range of referencing styles which can be used including

Chicago, Harvard, OSCOLA, APA, IEEE, MLA, Vancouver and MHRA.