Urgent: References in my assignment Please Help ASAP

booklover

I hope some can help me. I know I should know this but anyway... I have a 2000 word limit for my assignment, now do the References and dates used within the text of the assignment count towards the 2000 word limit??

I always get confused with this as I know the References in the Reference section aren't counted in the word limit!

Thanks in advance for your help.

booklover

QuirkyChemistry

As far as I'm aware they do not count. References, quotations and anything else that isn't your own work generally isn't included. Hope that helps.

booklover

Thanks Quirky thats very helpful.

Now i can get this work finished...

booklover

Gemmzie

Depends on your uni I'm afraid, they count for us.

bestpud

Yep, it depends on your uni.

They have only just started to count for us - they didn't up until Christmas.

It depends on the subject at my uni too.

Have you got a handbook or subject guide, printed or online? It should be written somewhere I'd have thought.

QuirkyChemistry

Sorry for misleading you. Normally I only write lab reports so don't have to deal with such problems.

phlash

I always used to go by the main body of the text for teh word count. i.e exclude titles, references etc.

The_One_Who

You should really ask someone in the department because every uni and every department has different rules for referencing and suchlike.

cupid_s

They definately count for us too.

hemc

the qoutes count for us but not the in text refrences (which can add up considrebly!) I always copy and pase document remove in text refrences and then word count
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booklover

Thanks everyone for all your help and support. :T They do count the Refs in the text in our uni it seems.

Take care
Booklover

Ps are there any Final Year Social Work Students here as I would love to talk to you