Writing a paper
On this page you will find links to guidelines that applies for all students theses/papers at GUC.
Current literature within this subject (Bibsys)
Bibliographies
Faculty of Health, care and nursing and some sections within Faculty of technology, economics and management use the Harvard style of reference. Faculty of Informatics and media technology and some sections at Faculty of Technology, economics and management use the Vancouver (numbered) style. Please contact your academic supervisor if you are in doubt of which style you should use.
Copyrights: What can you use?
Generally, you do not need permission if you want to cite a small part of a text, e.g. a quotation from a book, one verse of a poem etc. If you want to cite a larger part of a work, e.g. an entire poem, you need permission from the publisher/author in order to use it in your paper. You can usually contact the author directly or through the marketing department at the publisher. The exception is if it is 70 years or longer since the author died. Then the work is freed and you can cite, e.g. the entire "Peer Gynt" without permission.
When it comes to images, graphs, figures etc. you need the author/publisher`s permission. You can often find images that has socalled CreativeCommons licences online. If you use such images, make sure that you operate within the limits of the licence (most often, you just need to cite the originator. GUC has also bought access to a stock photo service called Colourbox where all contents are available for download and use. If you want to read more on copyright and use, please see www.clara.no
PDF- format
Are you handing in your paper in PDF? No problem..
If you use Word, choose "Save as" and "PDF" (document type). There, you`re done!
If you have multiple files that needs to be combined: convert all files to PDF first. Afterwords, you use web software, like pdfjoin.com to combine the files (but do not download java applet).
Do you need help?
- See our guide
- Request a librarian (individual guidence sessions)
- Page numbers Word (ekstern video)
