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Journalism and Media Studies: Referencing

A guide to resources for Journalism and Media Studies

Referencing Books

The simplest form of entry for a book appears in the first example:

Kern, G.N. Winston Churchill: An intimate Biography. New York: New York University Press, 1972.

Anthologies and collections:

To cite a book which contains a collection of essays by different authors, give first the editor's name, followed by a comma, a space and the abbreviation ed:

Cooper, A.C., ed. New Directions in Sociology. Melbourne: Acton, 1953.

Translation:

When the book citated is a translation, the name of the translator must appear in the entry:

Schilling, Katherin. Renaissance Comic Forms. Trans. Jonathan Braine. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952.

Edited literary text:

In citing a literary work that has been edited by someone, give the name of the editor:

Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Ed. R.N. Harris. Boston: Mrtin and Hollis, 1932.

Articles in Journals

Ndebele, Robert. 'Images of Cultureand Mental Illness: New Psychiatric Approaches.' Journal of Mental Health 21.2 (1971) : 313-22.

In the last line of the entry, 21 is the volume number; 2 is the issue number. There is no need to include the issue number for journals that use continuous pagination throughout the various issues of the volume. If, however each issue is separately paginated, include the issue number. (Ordinarily, journals begin a new volume with each year; each issue published in a year is given an issuenumber.) The page numbers give the inclusive pages for the entire article. If an article being cited is taken from a weekly or monthly magazine or from a newspaper rather than from scholarly journal, give only the date, without the volume number.

Hauge, Horst. 'Waiting for the future.' Listener 24 May 1976: 31.

An essay or chapter from a collection

To list a single piece that appears in an anthology or collection of essays, give the author's name, the title of the piece, the title of the anthology, the name of the editor, and then the publication information followed by the inclusive page numbers of the piece.

Macdonald, Brian. 'Colonial Images of Africa.' The Art and the Culture of Empire. Ed. Bridgett Coffin. London: Hall, 1977. 86-102.

If an essay has referred to two or more works from the same collection, list the collection under the editor's name. The entries for the individual works would take the following form:

Macdonald, Brian. 'Colonial Images of Africa.' Coffin 86-102.

Interviews

Begin the entry for an interview with the name of the person interviewed. If the interview has a title, write it out in full. If it does not have a tiltle, simply write 'Interview'. If the name of the interviewer is known, give it in the form shown in the example:

Soyinka, Wole. 'Taking the Long View: An interview with Wole Sonyika.' Interviewed by Susan Parker. Review of Modern Writing 12 (1986) : 13-18.

Kwan, Daniel. Interview. Interviewed by Derek Malan. Conversations with Contemporary Poets. Ed. James Howell and S.K. Feuer. Dunedin: Academic Press, 1977. 123-37.

Unpublished Theses, Dissertations and Papers.

Doctoral Dissertation:

Jolobe, K.X. 'Forms of Nguni Oral Literature.' PhD dissertation. London University, 1962.

Masters theses:

Saunders, Jane M. 'Early Settlement in Western Australia.' MA thesis. Murdoch University, 1978.

Research essay:

Erdman, Evan. 'From Literary Studies to Cultural Criticism: The Role of Interpretation and theory.' Unpublished research essay. University of Hong kong, 1982.