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1st Year Referencing Quiz

This quiz is designed to introduce some of the key points about referencing, each of which will help your work demonstrate good academic practice. This is a cornerstone of academic writing and a key part of your degree. You can retake this quiz as many times as you like and can revisit it as often as needed over the course of your degree.

To make it (slightly) more interesting it is themed around everyone’s favourite Italian treat: pizza! Hope you enjoy this slice of footnoting fun.

1. The key to good footnoting is:
2. Where can you go for help with referencing and good academic practice? (select all that apply)
3. Guidance is that you can use any footnoting style provided it is an established format, you are consistent with it, and you use footnotes not in-text references. This is great if you are comfortable with a particular style from previous experience and studies. However, the department does have a preferred style that we advise you use if you don’t already have a preference, called:
4. A bibliography is a key part of referencing and demonstrating good academic practice. It should list all sources and literature you have engaged with over the course of an essay, even those not directly quoted. When should you include a bibliography?
5. Okay, the first proper pizza question. Pizza has importance not just as food but as a social and cultural phenomenon. How would you reference this eBook upon the political history of Italian food tv in the first instance? Book linked here
6. Today many people recognise Naples as the birthplace of pizza as we know it. Antonio Mattozzi tracks this history in his book Inventing the Pizzeria which has been translated and edited by Zachary Nowak. With this dual authorship in mind, how would you reference this book in a bibliography? Book linked here
7. Pizza also featured in Socrates’ Ecclesiastical History of Constantinople (so writes Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos). Whether its inclusion in this article’s title is more for show and to catch attention than anything else, the authors name shows us the importance of paying attention to all given names in a reference. How would you include this as an entry in a bibliography? Article linked here
8. Pizza and its various forms, toppings, and styles, often varies in reception. The same goes for academic works and at times the reviews of specific works is as interesting as the original itself. How would you footnote this review of Greg Pizzoli’s book? Review linked here
9. Pizza has been written about by many many people, sometimes at the same time – take this article about Pizza Hut for example, which has four authors. How would you reference page 55 of this article in a footnote? Article linked here
10. We can track pizza at least as far back as 2,000 years ago from a fresco found in Pompeii. In July 2023 Rachel Roddy attempted to recreate this ancient recipe (with mixed success!) in an article in the Guardian. How would you correctly footnote this newspaper piece? (remember, newspapers differ from journal articles in their footnoting) Article linked here
11. Footnoting is not just about what goes in the footer of your page but also how the body looks. This means ensuring footnote numbers are in the right place and doing the right job! Choose the correct way to use footnotes below: (select all that apply)
12. Finally, and perhaps most importantly: does pineapple belong on a pizza?
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(Authentic Neapolitan pizza, Valerio Capello at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

(Pizzeria in Venice, Italy, Marco Correa, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

(View of the Gulf of Naples from Castel Sant'elmo, Miguel Hermoso Cuesta, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

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