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
