A Guide to Referencing Academic Work

Table of Contents

1. A Guide to Referencing Academic Work
2. Referencing and plagiarism
3. Referencing Systems
4. Modern Humanities Research Association
   1. Footnotes and Endnotes
   2. Books
   3. Books with more than one author
   4. Books with an editor or translator
   5. Chapters or Articles from Books
   6. Articles from Journals
   7. Articles from newspapers and magazines
   8. Unpublished dissertations and theses
   9. Plays and Long Poems
   10. The Bible
   11. Online Sources
   12. Articles from electronic journals
   13. Material from online databases
   14. Recorded media - films, music, sound recordings etc.
   15. Subsequent references
   16. Bibliography
   17. Variations on the footnote system
5. Harvard (author-date) referencing system
6. Revision quiz

Chapters or Articles from Books

When reference is made to a chapter or article in a book made up of contributions from several authors, the note must include the following (as well as the information required for books as set out above)

• The author of the article/chapter - as it is written in the book
• The title of the article/chapter - enclosed in single quotation marks
• The first and last page numbers of the article/chapter, following 'pp.'
• The specific page number(s) of the reference in brackets.

The name of the article or chapter should be followed by comma, and 'in' should be written before the title of the book.

Examples

Exercises

1

Place the missing words and punctuation into the gaps. Roy Jordan, 'Basic Training' The Complete Gundog, John Humphreys (Newton Abbot David & Charles, ), p. 38. Word bank: 1990, :, ed. by, in Roy Jordan, 'Basic Training' in The Complete Gundog, ed. by John Humphreys (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1990), p. 38. Did you manage to put all the punctuation in the right place?