"Imitation is the sincerest flattery" - C.C. Colton, 1820
The content of this website is copyright © Peter Hibbs 1998- 2010
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Viewers of NBCD wishing to use NBCD content for commercial use must obtain prior express written permission of the author. Viewers may not modify, publish, transmit, transfer or sell, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, display, or in any way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part.
Images
I have used a few images, the copyright of which I do not own. Where possible, I have sought permission from the relevant body to use such images. In cases where an image has appeared in a publication, and the publisher/press association credited with ownership appears to no longer exist, (according to searches of the Internet, Companies House, Kompass and Willing's Press Guide) I have used the image with the proviso that I will either accredit or remove such images if asked to do so by any authority that has legal ownership, depending on the specific wishes of that authority. NBCD is a non-profit making website, and financial gain does not result from the use of any of the material seen here. It should be noted that anyone copying such images from NBCD are advised to make their own enquiries as to copyright ownership, and not take my use of such images as a guarentee that copyright has expired.
Any image on NBCD accredited to a named individual or organisation must NOT be used without the specific permission of the copyright owner to do so.
Document Citation
At the bottom of every page you will find Document Citation information in the green panel. This should provide you with the information you require to properly quote that particular document, whichever method you use.
There are numerous ways to quote an electronic reference; some standards require different information to be quoted, and I have tried to include all that information in one easy-to-find place. The text between the dotted lines is a full citation to the British Standard; this can be copied and pasted into a new document.
Why bother?
Good question - after all, it's a lot of trouble to go to! However, using references raises the standard of your work; other people can see where your information came from. (Whether the information was correct in the first place is an entirely different matter.) It is also good practice and courteous to acknowledge your sources of information. Not doing so can be looked upon as plagiarism, whether intentional or not.