Referencing a book

If an electronic book has the same structure and page numbering as the equivalent print version, reference it as the print version. Otherwise, use the electronic book format below.
PRINT SOURCES (1) BOOK (2) CHAPTER IN AN EDITED BOOK (3) ARTICLE IN A JOURNAL (4) ARTICLE IN A MAGAZINE/NEWSPAPER (5) GOVERNMENT REPORT (6) CONFERENCE PAPER (7) UNPUBLISHED MATERIALS (8) VIDEO/DVD/MOVIE/CD-ROM (9) TV/RADIO ELECTRONIC SOURCES (10) BOOKS (11) JOURNALS (12) WEB DOCUMENTS Notes Author may be a person or an institution. In cases of multiple authorship, cite every author. If there is no author, place the title first. If there is no date, place n.d. in the category of year.

PRINT SOURCES (1) BOOK Author surname, initials Year, Title of Book, in italics Edition, Publisher, Place.

Burdesss, N.

1998,

Handbook of student skills,

2nd edn,

Prentice Hall,

Sydney.

If the book is an edited collection of papers written by different authors, cite only the editors name in the author column, and insert (ed.) or (eds) after the editors name, eg Jones, G.M. (ed.) If the place of publication is not a major city, also cite the state or country, eg Geelong, Victoria.

Example with a translator: Marquez, G.G. 1998, One hundred years of solitude, trans. G. Rabassa, Perennial Classics, New York. Example with no author: Maximum Linux security: a hacker's guide to protecting your Linux server and workstation 1999, Prentice Hall, Hemel Hempstead, UK. Examples of edited books: Hamilton, P. (ed.) 2005, Visual research methods, vol. 4, Sage, London. Turner, S.P. & Roth, P.A. (eds) 2003, Blackwell guide to the philosophy of the social sciences, Blackwell, Oxford.

(2) CHAPTER IN AN EDITED BOOK Author surname, initials Yea r, Title of Chapter, in single inverted commas Managing organization futures in a changing world of power/knowledge, i n Name of editor(s) Title of book in italics Publisher, Place,

pp

Clegg, S.

2003 ,

i n

H. Tsoukas & C. Knud (eds),

The Oxford handbook of organization theory,

Oxford University Press,

Oxford,

pp. 536 567

(3) ARTICLE IN A JOURNAL Author surname, initials Year , Title of article, in single inverted commas Name of journal, in italics vol., no.,

Seaman, C.B., Mendonca, M.G. & Young-Mi, K.

2003 ,

User evaluation and evolution of a prototype management tool,

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering,

vol. 29,

no. 9,

Most issues of most journals are now available online. For referencing purposes, you should still treat these journals as print (category 3 above), rather than as electronic (category 11). If a journal is only web-based, it will indicate this fact on its home page.

(4) ARTICLE IN A MAGAZINE/NEWSPAPER When a by-line [authors name] appears, follow (3) above, except replace the two categories vol. and no. with one category of day/month. Author Year , Title of article, Name of magazine/newspaper, in italics day & month p.

surname, initials

in single inverted commas

Irvine, J.

2005 ,

Commodity boom is over: Access,

Sydney Morning Herald,

27 July,

p. 19.

When no by-line appears, do not include the item in your reference list, but give details in-text only. For example: (Sydney Morning Herald, 30 June 2005, p. 23). (5) GOVERNMENT REPORT If the author is also the publisher, you may use an abbreviated form in the Publisher category, as shown below. Author surname, initials OR institution Year, Title in italics Publisher, Place.

Department of Primary Industries and Energy

1997,

National sustainable energy statement,

DPIE,

Canberra.

(6) CONFERENCE PAPER published as conference proceedings Author Year , Title of paper, Proceedings/Name of conference, in italics Editor(s ) if any Publisher , if any

surname, initials

in single inverted commas

Wieder, B., Booth, P., Matolcsy, Z. & Ossimitz, M.

2005 ,

A new approach towards measuring the performance of enterprise systems,

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Enterprise Systems and Accounting,

T i

Editors names are not always given, in which case, leave this category empty as above. The publisher category should only be filled if it differs from the name of the conference. The words proceedings of are not always included, as this fact may be assumed by citing the conference title itself. (7) UNPUBLISHED MATERIALS These include conference papers which have been presented but not subsequently published, as well as abstracts, manuscripts and theses. Unpublished work is signified by using roman type instead of italic for the title. PhD Thesis Darcy, S.A. 2004, Disabling journeys: the social relations of tourism for people with impairments in Australia - an analysis of government tourism authorities and accommodation sector practice and discourses, PhD thesis, University of Technology, Sydney. Conference Paper Taylor, T. 2001, Creating Diversity in Community Organizations, paper presented at the 7th Annual SMAANZ Conference, Victoria University, Melbourne.

(8) VIDEO/DVD/MOVIE/CD-ROM

The accepted citation words for each medium, or format are as follows: Video: video recording DVD: DVD recording Film: motion picture CD-ROM = CD-ROM Title in italics Year, format, Publisher, Place.

Community action and the environment

2003,

video recording,

Video Education Australasia,

Bendigo, Victoria.

(9) TV/RADIO TV: television program Radio: radio program ] Title in italics year, ] As (8) above, but add day/month. format, Name of station, Place, day & month.

PM

2005,

radio program,

ABC Radio 702AM,

Sydney,

4 August.

ONLINE RESOURCES (10) BOOKS Author surname, initials Year, Title, in italics Publisher, Place, date viewed, URL.

Kim, A.J.

2002,

Community building on the Web,

Safari Tech Books,

Boston, Mass.,

viewed 10 July 2004,

http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com

(11) JOURNALS Author surnam e, initials Year , Article Title, in single inverted commas Inductive theory generation: a grounded approach to business enquiry, Journal name, in italics vol., no., Date viewed, URL.

Douglas , D.

2004 ,

Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods,

vol. 2,

no. 1,

3 July 2005,

http://www.ejbrm.com/archives issue1-articles.htm.

(12) WEB DOCUMENT [which is not a book or a journal] Author, surname, initials OR organisation Robertson, P. 2001, Year, Title, in italics Producer, Place, date viewed, URL.

Astronomy in the deep freeze, Federal Election 2001,

Australian Academy of Science, Australian Electoral Commissio n,

Canberr a,

viewed 1 April 2004, viewed 17 March 2004,

http://www.science.org.au/nova

Australian Electoral Commission

2002,

Canberr a,

http://www.aec.gov.au/EF/105/.