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 Unpublished dissertations and theses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

The Bible

Unlike other 'classical' works, the books of the Bible are not written in italics. However, the numbering of books, chapters and verses follows a similar pattern to those in the previous section. Note that there is no comma after the name of the book.

Examples

1	Identify the correct reference to books of the Bible a) Matthew, 7. 11. b) John 1, 12. c) 2 Timothy 2. 2. d) II Corinthians 12. 7. Well Done!Try again. Look carefully at the positions of commas and full stops, and the use of arabic and Roman numerals.