Editing & publication
Referencing and formatting
Referencing marks are lost on details nobody teaches: which Harvard variant your faculty uses, whether your department wants a DOI, how the template handles a chapter heading. We apply the document you were given.
Suited to
- Theses that must match a strict institutional template
- Documents where the referencing style changed mid-project
- Work returned with referencing marked as a weakness
- Manuscripts being reformatted for a different journal
01In practice
How this actually works
We work in APA, Harvard, MLA, Chicago, IEEE, Vancouver, OSCOLA and MHRA, plus the numbered and author–date conventions used in continental European faculties.
More importantly, we follow your own department’s guide where it deviates from the published standard — which faculties do constantly, and which is where most referencing marks are actually lost.
Formatting covers the whole document: margins, spacing, heading hierarchy, table of contents, lists of figures and tables, page numbering across front and main matter, captions, appendices and any institutional template.
02Scope
What is delivered
Written down so there is nothing to discover later.
You receive
- Every in-text citation matched to a reference-list entry, and the reverse
- Reference list formatted to your required style and variant
- Corrected handling of edited volumes, translated works, legislation, standards and datasets
- Full document formatting applied to your institution’s template
- Automatic table of contents and lists of figures and tables that update correctly
- Consistent heading hierarchy and caption numbering
Not included
- We cannot supply bibliographic details for sources you cannot identify
- We do not add citations to claims that were written without a source
03Process
From brief to delivery
Send the handbook
Your department’s referencing guide and template. Without it we can only apply the generic standard.
Citation audit
Every in-text citation checked against the reference list, and orphaned entries identified.
Style application
Entries reformatted by source type, including the awkward ones that style guides bury.
Document formatting
Template, numbering, front matter and cross-references applied and verified.
04Questions
About referencing & formatting
More general questions about how we work are answered on the FAQ page.
Which Harvard variant do you use?
Can you convert a document between referencing styles?
Do you work with reference managers?
05Related
Often needed alongside this
Editing & proofreading
Three levels of intervention, so you get the one your document actually needs.
Dissertation & thesis
Full-length Bachelor’s, Master’s and doctoral projects, delivered chapter by chapter.
Coursework & essays
Module assignments written to the assessment criteria your marker is working from.
Journal publication
Journal targeting, manuscript preparation and reviewer responses that address the review.
Get a quote for referencing & formatting
Send the assessment criteria and your department’s guidance with the brief. Those decide the shape of the work more than the topic does. We reply within a few hours on working days.
What to have ready
- The assessment criteria or handbook
- Your deadline and word count
- Anything already written or approved
Not sure which service you need? Describe the project and we will tell you — including when the cheaper one is enough.