REFERENCING GUIDELINES: REFERENCE LIST AND/OR BIBLIOGRAPHY

A reference list is a full list of all publications referred to in the work. It is placed at the end. A bibliography differs in that it also includes publications that are not specifically referred to in the work. It is also placed at the end.

Order of elements of a citation (i.e. a reference to a source)

Author and Date (The Harvard or Author-Date style of referencing).
The details of the citation should be organised in the order shown in the table below. Include only what is appropriate for your source type.
The basic elements to use are shown in bold in the table below. When organising your citation look for the basic elements first and then use them in the order shown in the table.
Finally, clarify your citation with the other elements if they apply to your source.

1. Author

2. Date

3. Title - Book (in italics if published), or ‘Article’, Journal, or ‘Chapter’, in Book

4. Editor / translator / compiler

5. Edition (if identified as 2^nd, 3^rd, revd, etc.)

6. Volume no. / Volume title (if applicable)

7. Other publication details (e.g. day, month)

8. Series title (if applicable) and volume number within series if series is numbered

9. Medium (e.g. DVD, CD-ROM, podcast but not book, Internet, as this will be self-evident)

10. Publisher, place

11. Page number or numbers (if a chapter in a book or article in newspaper/journal)

12. URL

13. Access date

Punctuation

Referencing guides often use slightly different punctuation. You should use the same punctuation style consistently throughout your work.

A style that is simple to follow and widely used in Australia is that described in the Style manual for authors, editors and printers (2002), in which the elements are divided by a comma and finished with a full stop.

Order of citations

Order the list alphabetically by the first word or words of the entry, ignoring definite and indefinite articles (a, an, the).