Referencing & Citation Tools
Referencing is the acknowledgement of sources used in academic work. It gives credit to original authors, enables readers to trace sources, and helps prevent plagiarism. UNESWA Library provides guidance on major referencing styles and supports users in the use of reference management tools.
Referencing Style Guides
- APA: Quick Style Guide | Examples
- IEEE: Reference Guide
- MLA: Quick Guide | Reference Guide
- Harvard: Harvard Interactive Guide
- Chicago: UNESWA Department of History Guide |
Reference Management Tools
Reference management tools help users collect, organise, store and cite sources more efficiently. They also make it easier to insert citations into Microsoft Word and automatically generate bibliographies and reference lists. The University of Eswatini Library recommends Zotero reference management tool
Zotero is free and open source. It enables users to save references directly from web browsers, organise them into collections, attach PDFs, and generate citations and bibliographies in multiple referencing styles. Zotero seamlessly intergrates with Microsoft Word, enabling users to seamlessly cite while writing and automatically creating a reference list.
Should you encounter any challenges with Zotero, please contact svtsabedze@uneswa.ac.sz.
Finding Academic Literature
UNESWA Library assists students and staff with identifying relevant academic sources for assignments and research projects. Support includes search strategies, keywords, boolean operators and refining results.
General Academic Search Tools
Open Access Academic Resources
A joint WHO initiative indexing African health and biomedical literature, improving access to research published in Africa.
Subjects: Health Sciences; Medicine; Public Health (African focus).
AOSIS is an independent, in-house developed online publishing platform offering free access to peer-reviewed, open access scholarly journals.
Subjects: Theology and Religion; Education; Health Sciences; Human and Social Sciences; Natural Sciences; Law.
Peer-reviewed, open access scholarly monographs and edited collections published by AOSIS.
Subjects: Multidisciplinary, with a focus on Theology, Education, Health Sciences and Social Sciences.
A collection of high-quality, independent evidence, including Cochrane systematic reviews, to inform healthcare decision-making.
Subjects: Health Sciences; Medicine; Evidence-Based Practice; Public Health.
Provides worldwide access to biomedical and public health literature produced by and within low- and middle-income countries.
Subjects: Health Sciences; Medicine; Public Health.
MDPI is a pioneer in scholarly open access publishing, providing free access to peer-reviewed journal articles.
Subjects: Multidisciplinary, including Chemistry, Engineering, Medicine, Life Sciences, Environmental Science and Social Sciences.
A free full-text archive of books and documents in life sciences and healthcare, provided by the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information.
Subjects: Biomedical Sciences; Life Sciences; Health Sciences; Genetics; Molecular Biology.
Free access to OECD reports, working papers, statistics and analysis on economic, social and environmental policy issues.
Subjects: Economics; Public Policy; Education; Health; Governance; Environment; International Development.
A freely available database of theses and dissertations, developed by EBSCO in partnership with participating institutions and BiblioLabs.
Subjects: Multidisciplinary.
The Physiotherapy Evidence Database provides free access to evidence supporting evidence-based physiotherapy practice, including systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials and guidelines.
Subjects: Physiotherapy; Rehabilitation; Health Sciences.
A landmark UNESCO publication presenting Africa's history from an African perspective, freely available online in full text.
Subjects: African History; Humanities; Social Sciences.
The World Health Organization's institutional repository, providing open access to WHO publications, reports and technical documents.
Subjects: Public Health; Global Health; Medicine; Health Policy.
Free access to World Bank publications
Subjects: Development Economics, Public Policy, Education, Health, Agriculture, Governance, Finance and International Development.Research Data Management
The Library provides support for effective research data planning, organisation, preservation and sharing throughout the research lifecycle.
Data Management Plans
Students and staff can use DMPTool using their UNESWA email. Users can select a funder, add contributors, and download their completed Data Management Plan.
Storage, Preservation and Sharing
For storage, preservation and sharing of research data, users can deposit datasets in the UNESWA Research Data Hub (Zenodo). Zenodo supports embargoed files and assigns a DOI to datasets. The Library also assists with metadata, versioning and dataset review before deposit.
Before depositing or sharing a dataset, it often needs to be cleaned and standardised. The Library recommends OpenRefine, a free, open source tool for exploring, cleaning and transforming messy data, reconciling data against external sources, and converting between data formats.
- OpenRefine: Documentation | Download