Referencing for Bibliography
Today we had an insight on the methods that we will be using for any work we will be doing over the next three years.
Eddie (our tutor) mentioned that some people will pick this up very quickly but others will find it difficult, unfortunately I think I will be the latter. I'm sure that for at least the first few months i will be re-visiting this blog just to see the formula I need for the Harvard style.
We had a mini field trip to our library and had to find two books. One had to have 'Game Design' in the title while the other had 'reader'. This is so we had a chance to work with references with the original author as well as referencing authors that have edited/ used other authors work.
The formula for an original author below:
Author surname and initial, Year of publication, full title of book (underlined or italic), publisher:
City of publication.
The formula for an author referencing a book below:
Author contributor, date , "The title of contributor" in
Book author, full title of book, City, Publisher, pp 00-00 (NOTE: pp is for page no to page no)
The formula for referencing an article below:
Author surname, (Date), "Title of article", Full title of journal, (Vol 3,),
pp 00-00
pp 00-00
For my books I took, "Ultimate Game Design" and "Art and its histories".
We were asked to write a couple of references using these book. Unfortunately I didn't get it right first time, here are the corrected references I wrote:
Author
Tom Meigs, (2003), "Ultimate Game Design", Bradbury, McGraw - Hill/Osborne, (pp x, xiii)
Reader
Rose, J. (1986) "Sexuality in the field of vision" in
Edwards, S, (Ed) Art and its Histories London, Veso pp. 225 - 233.
Journal
Geffray,L. (1999) Infections associated with pets, La reviie de medecine inferno, 20(10), 888-901
A common mistake Eddie found when looking over our attempts was the use inverted commas and underlining/italics and when they should be used. He gave the following example of a compilation Album to help us remember:
Issues, (1984), "Boyfriend", in
Pop goes punk, (Virgin records)
I know I will be coming back to this blog to look at these formulas a lot. If for nothing else it will be for piece of mind that my referencing is acceptable. There are some good online tools that will actually allow you to put the information you need in, then the program will sort out the order for you. I personally find this page http://www.neilstoolbox.com/bibliography-creator/ a real help.
Hi Phil,
ReplyDeleteWhich books did you get out?
Can you post a bibliography with an entry for your full-length book and an entry for one of the contributions to your compilation or reader?
Yeah no problem Eddie, I didn't remember of the top of my head and was guessing you were going to give our pieces of paper back. I was thinking I would be able to edit it then.
DeleteAlso where I have put the example for referencing an article I am missing some information, would you be able to help me out?
You'll get to look at the Summon search tool, and journal articles, in the library resources sessions in two week's time.
ReplyDeleteYou can add journal articles to the this entry then.
Meanwhile, the title of the Meigs book be italicised (the other title doesn't need to be underlined and itlaicised) and the pages (x, xii) aren't needed. It also looks like an "r" has escaped from Verso.
Hi Phil,
ReplyDeleteI can't remember if my previous comment was before or after your last edit, but remember inverted commas go around the titles of journal articles and book contributions (ie smaller things in a bigger thing -- like tracks (smaller thing) on an album (bigger thing), while the published title (the book title, the journal title, the album title) is italicised.
The list should also be sorted in alphabetical order of author surname.
Subheadings aren't needed as the type of material will be apparent from the entries themselves.