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Books

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  • A book with one author
  • A book published in a second or subsequent edition
  • A book by two or three authors
  • A book by four or more authors
  • An edited book
  • A book with no author given
  • A book or work by an association or institution
  • Indirect citations - citations from a secondary source
  • Works by the same first authors, published in the same year.
  • Works by the same author, published in the same year.
  • Citing more than one author at one point in the text

A book with one author

Elements of the citation:First reference

Author Name Surname, Title of Book - in italics (Place of publication: Name of Publisher, Year of publication), page number.

Subsequent reference

Author Surname, Title of Book - in italics and shortened if more than 4 words, page number.

Bibliography

Author Surname, Author Name. Title of Book - in italics. Place of publication: Name of Publisher, Year of publication.

Example:First reference
1. Joseph Migga Kizza, Computer Network Security and Cyberethics (Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 2002), 35.

Subsequent reference
5. Kizza, Computer Network Security, 39.

Bibliography
Kizza, Joseph Migga. Computer Network Security and Cyberethics. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 2002.

A book published in a second or subsequent edition

Elements of the citation: First reference

Author Name Surname, Title of Book - in italics, number ed. (Place of publication: Name of Publisher, Year of publication), page number.

Subsequent reference

Author Surname, Title of Book - in italics and shortened if more than 4 words, page number.

Bibliography

Author Surname, Author Name. Title of Book - in italics. Number ed. Place of publication: Name of Publisher, Year of publication.

Example:First reference
3. Alan Fenna, Australian Public Policy, 2nd ed. , (Frenchs Forest, N.S.W. : Pearson Education Australia, 2004), 42.

Subsequent reference
5. Fenna, Australian Public Policy, 47.

Bibliography
Fenna, Alan. Australian Public Policy. 2nd ed. Frenchs Forest, N.S.W. : Pearson Education Australia, 2004.

A book by two or three authors

Elements of the citation: First reference

Author Name Surname and Author Name Surname, Title of Book - in italics (Place of publication: Name of Publisher, Year of publication), page number.

Subsequent reference

Author Surname and Author Surname, Title of Book - in italics and shortened if more than 4 words, page number.

Bibliography

Author Surname, Author Name and Author Name Surname. Title of Book - in italics. Place of publication: Name of Publisher, Year of publication.

Example:First reference
7. Ken Coates and Carin Holroyd, Japan and the Internet Revolution (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), 15.

Subsequent reference
9. Coates and Holroyd, Japan and the Internet, 19.

Bibliography
Coates, Ken and Carin Holroyd. Japan and the Internet Revolution. New York: Palgrave, 2003.

A book by four or more authors

Elements of the citation: First reference

Author Name Surname et al. , Title of Book - in italics, number ed. (Place of publication: Name of publisher, Year of publication), page number.

Subsequent reference

Author Surname et al. , Title of Book - in italics and shortened if more than 4 words, page number.

Bibliography

Author Surname, Author Name, Author Name Surname, Author Name Surname and Author Name Surname. Title of Book - in italics. Number ed. Place of publication: Name of Publisher, Year of publication.

Example: First reference
11. David Besanko et al. Economics of Strategy, 3rd ed. (New York: J. Wiley, 2003), 23.

Subsequent reference
13. Besanko et al. , Economics of Strategy, 37

Bibliography
Besanko, David, David Dranove, Mark Shanley, and Scott Schaefer. Economics of Strategy. 3rd ed. New York: J. Wiley, 2003.

Note: All authors' names are reproduced in full

One volume of a multi-volume work

Example: First reference
9. J. William Pfeiffer, ed. , Theories and Models in Applied Behavioural Science, vol. 4, Organizational (San Diego: Pfeiffer, 1991), 34.

Subsequent reference
11. Pfeiffer, Theories and Models: Organizational, 42.

Bibliography
Pfeiffer, J. William. Theories and Models in Applied Behavioural Science. Vol. 4, Organizational. San Diego: Pfeiffer, 1991.

An edited book

Elements of the citation: First reference

Editor Name Surname, ed. , Title of Book - in italics (Place of publication: Name of Publisher, Year of publication), page number.

Subsequent reference

Editor surname, Title of Book - in italics and shortened if more than 4 words, page number.

Bibliography

Editor Surname, Editor Name, ed. Title of Book - in italics. Place of publication: Name of Publisher, Year of publication.

Example: First reference
1. Margit Misangyi Watts, ed. , Technology: Taking the Distance out of Learning (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003), 73.

Subsequent reference
4. Watts, Technology, 96.

Bibliography
Watts, Margit Misangyi, ed. Technology: Taking the Distance out of Learning. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003.

A book with no author given

Elements of the citation: First reference

Title of Book - in italics, number ed. (Place of publication: Name of Publisher, Year of publication), page number.

Subsequent reference

Title of Book - in italics and shortened, page number.

Bibliography

Title of Book - in italics. Number ed. Place of publication: Name of Publisher, Year of publication.

Example: First reference
16. Style Manual for Authors, Editors and Printers, 5th ed. (Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1996), sec. 9.57.

Subsequent reference
20. Style Manual, sec. 9.59.

Bibliography
Style Manual for Authors, Editors and Printers, 5th ed. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1996.

A book or work by an association or institution

Elements of the citation: First reference

Name of Organisation, Title of Book - in italics, number ed. (Place of publication: Name of Publisher, Year of publication), page number.

Subsequent reference

Name of Organisation - shortened if appropriate, Title of Book - in italics and shortened, page number.

Bibliography

Name of Organisation. Title of Book - in italics. Number ed. Place of publication: Name of Publisher, Year of publication.

Example: First reference
21. National Gallery of Australia, The Eye of the Storm: Eight Contemporary Indigenous Artists, 2nd ed. (Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 1997),15.

Subsequent reference
27. National Gallery of Australia, Eye of the Storm, 19.

Bibliography
National Gallery of Australia. The Eye of the Storm: Eight Contemporary Indigenous Artists, 2nd ed. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 1997.

Indirect citations - citations from a secondary source

These occur when you choose to cite the work of an author using a reference/citation made by another author i.e. you do not examine the original work.Details of both the original and secondary source must be listed.

Example: Secondary sources cited in your notes
1. Sheila Allen, "Some Theoretical Problems in the Study of Youth,"Sociological Review 16, no. 3 (1968): 1, quoted in Johanna Wyn and Rob White, Rethinking Youth (St Leonards, N.S.W: Allen & Unwin, 1997), 8.

Bibliography
Allen, Sheila. "Some Theoretical Problems in the Study of Youth." Sociological Review 16, no. 3 (1968): 1. Quoted in Johanna Wyn and Rob White. Rethinking Youth. St Leonards N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 1997, 8.

Works by the same first authors, published in the same year.

Single author entries come first in the bibliography

Example:
Robbins, Stephen. P. Organizational Behaviour. 11th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 2004.

Robbins, Stephen P. and David A. DeCenzo. Fundamentals of Management: Essential Concepts and Applications. 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 2004.

Works by the same author, published in the same year.

In your bibliography, order these works alphabetically according to the title of the work. Ignore any initial "The", "A" or "An" in the title. A dash replaces the repeated author name

Example:
Blainey, Geoffrey. Black Kettle and Full Moon: Daily Life in a Vanished Australia. Camberwell, Victoria: Penguin/Viking, 2003.

----. The Rush the Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining. 5th ed. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 2003.

Citing more than one author at one point in the text

Several citations can be included in a single footnote, separated by a semi-colon.

Example: Multiple references cited in your notes
1. Zygmunt Bauman, Globalization and Culture (Oxford: Polity Press, 1999), 6; John Tomlinson Globalization: The Human Consequences (London: Routledge, 1999), 11.

Multiple references cited in your bibliography (Create separate entries).
Bauman, Zygmunt. Globalization and Culture. Oxford: Polity Press, 1999.
Tomlinson, John. Globalization: The Human Consequences. London: Routledge, 1999.

 

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