I think it really depends on the PhD supervisor. If you are applying to PhD funding, then it might be more difficult, but if you know of someone who is researching something that you are interested in, then let them know and ask them for help.

Come up with a proposal perhaps, or even ask if you can help them out with some part time work, or voluntary work to gain a bit of experience. From this they should be able to see that you are competent and will be more willing to take you on as a student.

My supervisor for example isn't that interested in what grades people got, but is more interested in their ability and also their perseverance to do what they want to do!

Good luck.

Hi Shani,

that does make sense, as you can see the numbers going in as you add them, and they then switch to the author and year. Well, I suppose I'll put all my references into one library and then redo ALL my referencing - what a pain!

It does seem pretty silly that you cant use two libraries as I'm sure I'm not the only person who wants to keep references for different subject matters separate!

Nicola

Just wondering if anyone else has had major problems with end note messing up references in a paper?

I've been writing a report for a while, and have about 20 pages with references in them. This week, end note seems to have shuffled them all about...so now I will have to go through, check every single reference to make sure it is the correct one and then update it all.

Has this happened to anyone else, and does anyone have any advice for how to stop it happening again (other than backing up every day!)?

Also...is it ok to keep separate end note libraries for different subjects, and to add references from more than one library into one paper, or is it best to keep them all in one library?

Thanks in advance,

Nicola

I've just joined this forum, as I was searching for some help on how to reference in my first year report (for transfer from MSc to PhD).

I thought I had referenced ok, but my supervisor is telling me I really need to go back to all the original literature...but Im finding it a bit of a struggle trying to figure out which statments actually need referencing, which I can use a recent review for, and which I actually need to go back to the original literature for.

Has anyone got any basic advice on what to reference, and what not to reference? i.e. do I need to reference things which are common knowledge in my field of research? Or any websites with useful advice would be good!

Thanks,