It is important to gain clarification from your lecturer about their expectations around referencing on your poster.
Read your assessment instructions carefully, including the marking criteria - which may give you tips and hints for how your poster should be presented and referenced.
Make sure to leave enough space to account for your in-text references and reference list on any poster you design. Generally, a reference list is presented in a box on the poster itself, or is the final slide in a Powerpoint presentation.
As always your in-text citations and reference list need to be formatted properly according to the style for your discipline.
This guide will help you identify and use the correct referencing style to acknowledge the information sources you use in your writing.
Most referencing style guides are designed for written works, so it is difficult to find advice on how to cite your sources when you are speaking in an oral presentation.
Paraphrasing:
For the words you speak, if an "in-text" citation would be needed you will need to mention the authors in the sentence:
"As Thompson and DePaul mentioned in 2020, children will learn to…"
Quoting:
Draw attention to the direct quote with your words:
"Wang et al. stated, and I quote, 'little can be done.'"
"As Winston Stuart said, 'this is only the first step.'"
Some disciplines (for example, law) have specific conventions for the kind of oral presentation you are delivering. Check with your lecturer to see if there are conventions you should be following.
