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Library: Referencing Guide

Tenison Woods College Library

Basic Harvard Referencing Guide

Quick Examples for Creating a Reference List

  • Book

Single author - Cochrane, A 2007, Understanding urban policy: a critical approach, Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA.

2-3 authors -  Mason, K., & Fielden, P. (2007). Palmer, GR & Short, SD 2010, Health care and public policy: an Australian analysis, 4th edn, Palgrave Macmillan, South Yarra, Vic..

3 or more authors -  Seeley, R, VanPutte, C, Regan, J & Russo, A 2011, Seeley’s anatomy & physiology, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY

  • Book Chapter

Richards, KC 1997, ‘Views on globalization’, in HL Vivaldi (ed.), Australia in a global world, Century, North Ryde, NSW.

  • Dictionary / Encyclopaedia – print

VandenBos, GR (ed.) 2007, APA dictionary of psychology, American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.

  • Dictionary / Encyclopaedia – online

Arcus, D 2001, ‘Attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)’, in B Strickland (ed.), The Gale encyclopedia of psychology, viewed 21 November 2009, Oxford Reference Online Database.

  • DVD / Videorecording

Sense and sensibility 1995, DVD, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Australia. Directed by Ang Lee.

  • E- Book - online book

Niemann, S, Greenstein, D, & David, D 2004, Helping children who are deaf: family and community support for children who do not hear well, Hesperian Foundation, Berkley, CA, viewed 11 June 2007, http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download_deaf.php

  • Figure, Table, Graph, Map or Chart

Graph
Kaplan, RS & Norton, DP 2004, ‘Internal processes deliver value over different time horizons’, graph, in Strategy maps: converting intangible assets into tangible outcomes, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, p. 48

Map
Geoscience Australia [NATMAP] 2004, ACT region, New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory, map, Geoscience Australia, Canberra.

  • Journal Article

Jackson, A 2007, ‘New approaches to drug therapy’, Psychology Today and Tomorrow, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 54-9.

  • Image – online

Monet, C 1890, Haystacks, midday, painting, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, viewed 18 November 2009, http://artsearch.nga.gov.au/ Detail-LRG.cfm?IRN=29073&View=LRG

  • Newspaper Article - with an author

Waterford, J 2007, ‘Bill of Rights gets it wrong’, Canberra Times, 30 May, p. 11.

  • Newspaper Article - without an author

‘Internet pioneer to oversee network redesign’ 2007, Canberra Times, 28 May, p. 15.

  • Online Newspaper Article or Newsletter Article

Saulwick, J 2011, ‘Sydney train project derails Downer’, Sydney Morning Herald, 27 January, viewed 12 February 2011, http://www.smh.com.au.

  • Website

Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 2009, DEEWR, Canberra, viewed 21 November 2009, http://www.deewr.gov.au/

  • Wiki

‘Great debates in media literacy: theory and practice of media literacy’ n.d., Wikiversity, wiki article, viewed October 27 2009, http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Great_Debates_in_Media_Literacy

Referencing Tool

SACE Referencing Generator

 

  • BebMe
    The fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills. It’s the easiest way to generate citations to build a works cited page.
    Citation generators are great for automatically compiling your bibliographies, but it's still important you know the process of creating a bibliography manually, and the reasons why citing your sources is necessary.

The following set of guides will assist you:

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Academic Integrity & Plagiarism

If you quote or paraphrase another author's work without including a reference to it you are plagiarising. Not only is it very easy to detect plagiarism using online services like Turn It In, but it is also very easy for your tutor to spot it just by reading your work. Remember - you are not being marked on your ability to write facts or show off what you know. Any assumptions or facts you state must have someone else's credible work to back you up. Plagiarism does not only mean cheating, it is mainly used to describe forgetting or not realising to include a reference to other's work or theories.

Research Skills

Define

  • What is the question asking me?
  • What do I need to know?
  • Break the assignment question up:
    1. Instruction words – what to do
    2. Qualifying words/phrases – scope and limit
    3. Key concepts – focus of the assignment

Locate Variety of Media Formats

  • Print - Books, Newspapers, Magazines, Journals
  • Web – Search Engines - Which one?–URL, Podcast
  • AV – Film, Video clip, Picture

Selection

  • Critical evaluation
  • Accuracy
  • Authority
  • Objectivity
  • Currency
  • Coverage

Do I have enough information? Is more information required?

Organise

  • Arrangement of your material to develop your argument or ideas
  • Include a Bibliography
  • You may identify that you need to gather more information.

Present

  • Present your assignment in the format requested and use tools which showcase your work to the best advantage

Assess

  • Assess your effort,
  • Could you have included more information?
  • Did the information you collect reflect the assignment task?