The references are data prompted by third party providing the information of a location, person or on an investigation, the term reference describes the process by which it is mentioned or indicated (which is the same as saying "refers") to an object or person, that is to say, they are the information that allows to acquire knowledge a certain question of interest people, jobs, places, methods, etc.; For any point that you want to know, you need to search and obtain references.
Therefore, the reference can be understood as news, informative data that leads to the possession of information or knowledge, creating links or relationships with people or things, and the word can be used in sentences such as “I met Juan, I had already had numerous references to that person ” or “ let's see this movie, many colleagues have referred me to it ” .
Due to the meaning of the references, they are obligatorily added at the time of carrying out a monographic and investigative work, giving them the surname of "bibliographic" , they are the type of data that allows the location and reading of the information presented or projected in the work in question, this allows the reader to locate the sources of information that have been used if they wish to deepen their knowledge on the subject, or if they wish to have their own interpretation of the information argued in the monographic work.
In the preparation of bibliographic references, a series of steps must be followed or it is structured in different ways depending on where the information comes from, in case it is obtained from a book, the title, author, year of publication and the publisher, while if the information is obtained from a web page the title, author, year of publication, country, city and the full link of the page used must be mentioned; and so on, the data necessary for the writing of a bibliographic reference will vary.
