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 Unpublished dissertations and theses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

Articles from Journals

References to articles found in journals are written in a similar manner to those in books. The note should include

• The name of the author - as it is written in the article
• The title - enclosed in single quotation marks
• The name of the journal - in italics
• The volume number of the journal in Arabic numerals ('1,2' not 'I, VI')
• Year (or academic year) in which the volume was published
• The first and last page numbers of the article, without 'pp.'
• The specific page number(s) of the reference, following 'p.' or 'pp.' in brackets.

Note that there is no need to use the word 'in'.

Where a name or other word in the title is enclosed in quotation marks, use double quotation marks in the reference. Only use abbreviations of journal titles where the reader is certain to know to which journal you are referring.

Examples

Exercise

1	Write out a reference to this work in full. Author: W. H. C. Frend Title: The Divjak Letters: New Light on St Augustine's Problems, 416-428 Journal: Journal of Ecclesiastical History Number: 34 Date: 1983 Pages: 497-512 Specific page reference: 499

2

Fill in the gaps in this reference. E. M. Wood, , American Journal of Ancient History, 8 , 1-47 . Well Done!Oh Dear! Pay close attention to the order in which the information is written, and the use of brackets in this reference. Word bank: 'Agricultural Slavery in Classical Athens', (1983), (p. 40)