Referencing Exercises (4 pages)

Some books contain a wealth of bibliographic detail and only some is needed for a bibliography. For example, with the publishing date, should the edition be quoted? What about the series in which the book is a part? It is a matter of judgment in creating a unique entry.

Order of information:

• Author, comma
• Initials with full stops followed by a comma
• Any other authors in the same format
• If editors put eds. in brackets
• Year in brackets adding a, b, or c if other books by the same author share the year, comma
• Chapter title or journal article in single quotation marks, comma
• Book title or journal itself in italics or underline, comma
• Edition if necessary and comma
• Journal edition information including more precise date if necessary and comma, town of publication, colon:
• Publisher
• Comma if page numbers range
• Full stop

• Open brackets
• Author's surname, comma
• Year (plus a, b, c, etc. if years are shared)
• Close brackets

Reference everything that comes more or less directly - verbatim and not - from sources.