Bibliographic referencing:

 

The first few examples only, show the alternative formats for footnotes/endnotes, bibliographies and reference lists.  You should be able to see how these differ, and adjust the other examples accordingly.

 

 

Book with a single author:

 

Footnote:          Gerald Metral, A do-it-yourself submachine gun. Boulder, Col. : Paladin Press, 1995

 

Bibliog.:            Metral, Gerald,  A do-it-yourself submachine gun. Boulder, Col. : Paladin Press, 1995

 

Ref. List:           Metral, Gerald (1995), A do-it-yourself submachine gun. Boulder, Col. : Paladin Press

 

 

Book with editor(s):

 

Footnote:          Ronald Duncan and M. Weston-Smith (eds.), The encyclopedia of medical ignorance. Oxford : Pergamon Press, 1984

 

Bibliog.:            Duncan, Ronald and Weston-Smith, M. (eds.), The encyclopedia of medical ignorance. Oxford : Pergamon Press, 1984

 

Ref. List:           Duncan, Ronald and Weston-Smith, M. (eds.) (1984), The encyclopedia of medical ignorance. Oxford : Pergamon Press

 

 

Book with several authors:

 

Footnote:          U. Mohr et al., Pathobiology of the ageing rat.  Washington, DC : International Life Sciences Institute, 1992

 

Bibliog.:            Mohr, U. et al., Pathobiology of the ageing rat.  Washington, DC : International Life Sciences Institute, 1992

 

Ref. List:           Mohr, U. et al. (1992), Pathobiology of the ageing rat.  Washington, DC : International Life Sciences Institute

 

 

Book without a date:

 

Parker, Southcombe and Stevens Cox, G.,  The giant cabbage of the Channel Islands.  Guernsey : Guernsey Historical Society, n.d.

 

Richmond, Clifford,  History and romance of elastic webbing since the dawn of time. Easthampton, Mass. : The author, n.d.

 

Chapter in a book:

 

Cousins, Robin E., “Mortlake revisited: John Dee’s house and his burial in Mortlake” in Robert Turner (ed.) The Heptarchia Mystica of John Dee.  Wellingborough : Aquarian, 1986  pp. 107-115

 

 

Journal articles:

 

Trickey, Keith,  “From church work with cowgirls to women and the sea and the wider ocean: a random walk through Library of Congress Subject Headings”, Catalogue and index, 2003 No. 147 pp. 7-9

 

Thompson, K., “Fantasy, franchises, and Frodo Baggins : The Lord of the Rings and modern Hollywood”, The Velvet Light Trap, 2003 no. 52 pp. 45-63.

 

 

Website:

 

Pearse, Roger The Tertullian project. http://www.tertullian.org/ Last updated 06.05.06  (Accessed 07.05.06)

 

Ardman Animations Wallace and Gromit online. http://www.wallaceandgromit.com/fla/wg.html (Accessed 07.05.06)

 

 

Item without a personal author

 

Classification Research Group,  “The need for a faceted classification as the basis of all methods of information retrieval”,  Library Association record,  1955 Vol. 57 No.7 pp. 262-268

 

 

Item without any author

 

“The subject enhancement of OPAC records and the need for multilingual access”,  Vine, 1993 No. 90 p. 34

 


 

Variations in citation styles of different scholarly journals:

 

Adams JQ, Lincoln A, van Buren M, Truman HS: An imaginary conversation. J Hist

Fant 76:204-212, 1976

 

Adams, J. Q.; Lincoln, A.; van Buren, M.; Truman, H. S. An imaginary conversation. Journal of Historical Fantasy 1976 , 76 (11), 204-212.

 

Adams JQ, Lincoln A, van Buren M, Truman HS. An imaginary conversation. J Hist Fant 1976 November 5;76(11):204-12.

 

Adams,J.Q., Lincoln,A., van Buren,M., and Truman,H.S. 1976. An imaginary conversation. Journal of Historical Fantasy 76(11):204-212.

 

ADAMS,J.Q., LINCOLN,A., VAN BUREN,M., TRUMAN,H.S., 1976. "An imaginary conversation", Journal of Historical Fantasy, 76, S. 204-212.

 

Adams JQ, Lincoln A, van Buren M, Truman HS. 1976. An imaginary conversation. Journal of Historical Fantasy 76: 204-212.

 

 

Standard works on bibliographic referencing:

 

British Standard 1629:1989 Recommendations for references to published materials. London : BSI, 1989

British Standard 6371:1983 Recommendations for citation of unpublished documents.  London : BSI, 1983

 

Butcher, Judith  Copy editing; the Cambridge handbook for authors, editors and publishers 3rd ed.  Cambridge : CUP, 1992

The Chicago manual of style 15th ed.  Chicago : Chicago University Press, 2003

Ritter, R. M. (ed.) The Oxford guide to style. Oxford : OUP, 2002

Turabian, Kate  A manual for writers of term papers, theses and dissertations 6th ed.  rev. by John Grossman and Alice Bennett.  Chicago : Chicago University Press, 1996

 

Websites on bibliographic referencing 

 

Most universities have a guide to bibliographic referencing, and there are lots to be found on the web.  UCL’s can be located in the WYSE information skills module at:  www.ucl.ac.uk/webCT

There are also guidelines in the programme handbooks on the SLAIS website

CTI  Textual studies Overview of personal bibliographic software  http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ctitext2/service/workshop/bib-overview.html (Accessed 07.05.06)