How to cite and reference material on the LDP website

For material that was published by NCELP (i.e., between 2 Dec 2018 and 2 March 2023), please use the following conventions:

For in-text citation, if the material has a date on it, e.g., at the start or end of the document, or in filename:

"It has been proposed that grammar can be taught in small discrete units (NCELP, 2020a). Furthermore, NCELP (2020b) recommended that vocabulary should be regularly revisited."

For in-text citation, if the material has no date on it:

"It has been proposed that grammar can be taught in small discrete units (NCELP, n.d.). Furthermore, NCELP (n.d.) recommended that vocabulary should be regularly revisited."

For the full reference:

Title of the resource (year [or n.d.]). National Centre for Excellence for Language Pedagogy. University of York, UK. Retrieved from [url] on [date it was downloaded in this format: 4 March 2025].

For example,

NCELP (2020 [or n.d.]). Meaningful practice: definitions, rationale and principles. National Centre for Excellence for Language Pedagogy. University of York, UK. Retrieved from https://resources.ncelp.org/concern/resources/ng451h506 on 4 March 2025.

Note: Occasionally, individual authors are named on some of the materials, and those authors' names can be used instead of using 'NCELP’ as the author. For the in-text citation, this would be "Kasprowicz (2020)". For the reference this would be "Kasprowicz, R. (2020) …. [followed by a reference as above]”.


For material that was published by Language-Driven Pedagogy (i.e., from 3 March 2023 onwards), please use the following conventions: 

For in-text citation, if the material has a date on it, e.g., at the start or end of the document, or in filename:

"..., as suggested by the most recent KS4 Scheme of Work (Language-Driven Pedagogy, 2023)"

For in-text citation, if the material has no date on it:

"It has been proposed that grammar can be taught in small discrete units (Language-Driven Pedagogy, n.d.). Furthermore, Language-Driven Pedagogy (n.d.) recommended that vocabulary should be regularly revisited."

For the full reference:

Title of the resource (year [or n.d.]). Language-Driven Pedagogy. University of York, UK. Retrieved from [url] on [date it was downloaded, in this format: 11 April 2023].

For example,

Language-Driven Pedagogy (2023 [or n.d.]). Key Stage 4 Spanish Scheme of Work. Language-Driven Pedagogy. University of York, UK. Retrieved from https://resources.ldpedagogy.org/concern/resources/rr172059c?locale=en on 4 March 2025.

Note: Occasionally, individual authors are named on some of the materials, and those authors' names can be used instead of using 'Language-Driven Pedagogy' as the author. For the in-text citation, this might be "... as suggested by Hawkes and Marsden (2023)". For the reference this would be "Hawkes, R. & Marsden, E. (2023)". [followed by the reference as above].