In-text referencing when paraphrasing from a published conference paper with two or three authors.

There are two options for in text referencing:

1. Adding a citation at the end of a sentence.
2. Using the author’s name as part of your sentence.

Essential information to includ:

• The family name of all the authors.
• No initials are required.
• The year of publication.

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The sentences below have been paraphrased from the following reference:

Hu, SC & Chan, VL 2001, ‘The Taiwanese experience: impact on production and trade’, in P Drysdale (ed.), Proceedings of The 27th Pacific trade and development conference (PAFTAD), Australian National University, Canberra, 20-22 August 2001, Routledge Curzon, London, pp. 140-171.

(a) Hu and Chan (2001) offer the opinion that over the past decade, Taiwan has experienced major growth in the information and technology industry,  benefited from the globalisation of the computer industry to become a leading producer of computer hardware.   

or

(b) Over the past decade, Taiwan has experienced major growth in the information and technology industry,  benefited from the globalisation of the computer industry to become a leading producer of computer hardware (Hu & Chan 2001).     

Note: 

• Do not add page numbers or quotation marks when paraphrasing.
• the different uses of ‘&’ and ‘and’ in the examples above.
  ‘and’ is used when the authors’ names are used as part of the sentence (See - Example a).
  ‘&’ is used when the authors’ names are used in the bracketed citation (See - Example b).
• the full stop is placed after the bracket when the citation is at the end of the sentence (See - Example b).

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