A2 LL - Bibliography and Referencing

It is vital that you record sources of information that you have used to write your essay. If you quote or refer to external texts or sources without identifying the source, you are in danger of being accused of plagiarism. 

The guide below is a way of recording these details. Please read it carefully.

A Guide to Accurate Referencing

In order to have an accurate record of what you have researched and therefore an accurate reference, it is important that you write down the details of your sources as you study.

For books, record:

· The author’s name

· The year the book was published

· The title of the book

· The city the book was published in

· The name of the publisher

Example (Fictional Novel):

Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s Ark. (London: Hodder &Stoughton, 1982) pp. 13-14

Example (Essay in a collection of essays):

Theodor W. Adorno, ‘Working through the Past’ in Can One Live After Auschwitz? (ed. by Rolf Tiedemann), (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003) p. 16

For journal articles record:

· The author’s name or names

· The year in which the journal was published

· The title of the article and the title of the journal

· The page number(s) of the article in the journal

· As much other information as you can find about the journal, for example the volume and issue numbers

Example:

Hayden White, ‘Figural Realsim in Witness Literature’, from Parallax, vol. 10, no. 1, (London: Taylor and Francis, 2004) p. 113

For electronic resources,

try to collect the information above if it is available, but also record:

· The date you accessed the source

· The electronic address or email

· The type of electronic resource (email, discussion forum, website, etc)

Example:

The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), Werner Krauss, website:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0470328 accessed 14/03/2006