Authordateviitteet

Authordateviitteet, often translated as author-date referencing, is a citation system used in academic and scholarly writing to acknowledge the sources of information. This method involves placing the author's last name and the publication year within the text of a document, typically in parentheses, immediately after the material that has been borrowed or referenced. For example, a direct quote might appear as (Smith, 2020, p. 45) or a paraphrased idea as (Jones, 2018).

The primary purpose of authordateviitteet is to provide readers with immediate access to the origin of the information, allowing them to verify the source or explore it further. This system is widely adopted across many disciplines, particularly in the social sciences and humanities, due to its clarity and ease of integration into the flow of writing.

A key component of the authordateviitteet system is the reference list or bibliography, which appears at the end of the work. This list provides full publication details for every source cited in the text. Entries in the reference list are typically alphabetized by the author's last name and include information such as the author's full name, publication year, title of the work, and publication details (e.g., publisher, journal name, volume, and page numbers). Different style guides, such as APA (American Psychological Association) or Harvard, may have specific variations in how these citations and references are formatted, but the core principle of author and date remains consistent.