Now here's a strange question,

[stardustjunkie]

I couldn't find a forum for this so I hoped this one would do!

I'm currently writing an essay and I really need to reference my Skywatcher Explorer EQ5 manual but it's at my mum's house and I wont be there till the weekend! The essay is due Monday. Does someone have this manual in paper copy to hand?!

I need the author (if it's listed), year it was published (if listed), the exact name of the manual and also the publisher (again, if listed).

Thank you anyone that can help.

[Stephen]

http://www.skywatcher.com/swtinc/customer_support.php?class1=1

Manuals here

[Velvet]

i can find no author on mine it just says

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced....etc etc. and then gives Optical Vision Limited

Sorry no author or anything

velvet

[Matt Scunthorpe]

You could quote Skywatcher as the author. As it will be feasible that they wrote there own manual.

[username]

If you're having trouble getting the exact details you can just reference the webpage

for example

Skywatcher Equatorial Mount Manual, accessed PUT THE DATE HERE, http://www.webaddress

[breezy]

No such thing as a daft question here

[username]

ALL MODELS WITH EQ3-2 AND EQ5(EQ4) MOUNT,accessed 10th December 2012,<www.skywatcher.com/swtsupport/Instruction_Manuals/GENERAL_EQ3and5.pdf>

would be the way to do it

[username]

from what i can see of the pdf there is no author or year of plublication so providing details on how to get the document will be enough. So long as you provide this you won't get in trouble for plagiarism and you've provided the reader with source information and cited it as not your own work, There isn't much else you can do in this situation.

Here's a link to the Harvard system for citations for electronic stuff if you want to read more about it

http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/ref_elec1.html#elec3

[stardustjunkie]

Thank you everyone!

I was meant to say the essay is due Wednesday, so I wont get to see my own manual in time. I guess I'll just have to reference the website with the manual. Thanks again!

[username]

No problem. Working out proper referencing can take a silly amount of time compared to the work sometimes

[stardustjunkie]

Yes, pretty sure I spent longer referencing than I have on the 2000 words haha!

[Tim]

Can I quote you on that?

Tim