This document offers a comprehensive guide to referencing literature in academic writing. It emphasizes the importance of proper referencing for acknowledging sources, avoiding plagiarism, and demonstrating scholarly work. The guide details rules for referencing works without direct quotes, paraphrasing, direct quoting, referencing via another author, handling long quotations, and citing multiple-authored works. It also addresses referencing unpublished comments, web-based sources, and compiling bibliographies. Specific examples and style guides are provided for various publication types, including books, edited books, journal articles, reports, and websites. The guide stresses the importance of consistency, clarity, and avoiding practices like using 'ibid' or 'op cit'. It also highlights the need to support claims with evidence and to use quotations judiciously to enhance the argument.