Books and articles
Note: Different units at Deakin use different referencing styles. Check your unit assessment information to find which style you are required to use.
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Book
In the reference list entry:
- Book titles should be italicised and all major words should be capitalised.
- If the city of publication is not well known, then the state or the country should also be included.
- Edition number is provided only for second or later editions.
- E-books should be cited as print books, unless the e-book is a special edition or only available online – in this case, provide a URL and date accessed as you would other online sources.
Initials. Author/Editor, Title of Book, Publisher, City (state or country, if city not well known), edition number if not the first, year, volume number.
G. H. Aylward and T. J. V. Findlay, SI Chemical Data, Wiley, Milton (Qld), 6th edn., 2008.
K. B. Lipkowitz and D. B. Boyd (eds), Reviews in Computational Chemistry, VCH Publishers, New York, 1990, vol. 1.
Chapter
When you refer to a specific article, report or chapter in an edited book containing individual contributions by various authors, you need to acknowledge the particular author whose work you are citing. In the reference list entry, provide the name of the author cited plus information about the book in which the work appears.
- The title of the book section or chapter is not identified but the book title is preceded by the word 'in' to indicate that the cited work is part of an edited collection.
- The first page of the chapter (or first page of the article) has to be identified. Where possible, cite the range of pages.
- Use p. or pp. for page number(s) of articles or chapters in books. (Note that journal articles do not use p. or pp.)
Initials. Author of section/chapter, in Title of Book, Editor(s), Publisher, City, year, volume number (if applicable), page numbers or chapter number.
P. C. Jurs, in Reviews in Computational Chemistry, ed. K. B. Lipkowitz and D. B. Boyd, VCH Publishers, New York, 1990, vol. 1, pp. 169-212.
When referring to the entire book and not to a specific section or chapter by a particular author, the work is listed under the editor's name.
W. H. Miller (ed.), Dynamics of Molecular Collisions, Plenum Press, New York, 1976.
Journal article
- Journal titles should be abbreviated and also italicised. If the common abbreviation cannot be located, use the full title. See the following advice on abbreviations, or contact unit staff or your liaison librarian for more information:
http://cassi.cas.org/
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/ReSourCe/AuthorGuidelines/AuthoringTools/JournalAbbreviations - The name of the article is not included in the citation.
- Indicate the volume number using bold font.
- Place the issue number in brackets.
- Where possible, cite the range of pages of the article.
Continuous pagination
Continuous pagination (used by many journals) continues the sequence of page numbers through all the issues that make up a volume. It is not necessary to indicate issue numbers, as page numbers are sufficient to indicate the location of articles in volumes that use continuous pagination.
Initials. Author, Abbreviated journal title, year, volume number, page range.
U. Klabunde, Inorg. Synth., 1974, 15, 82-84
Separate pagination
Some journals do not number pages continuously through the issues that make up a volume; each issue begins at page 1. Provide the issue number in brackets after the volume number.
Initials. Author, Abbreviated journal title, year, volume number (issue number) page range.
K. F. Lim, Parabola, 1981, 17 (1) 17-23.
Volumes numbered by year
Some journals use only the year to indicate each volume; there is no dedicated volume number.
Initials. Author, Abbreviated journal title, year, page range.
S. J. Davies, J. A. K. Howard, M. U. Pilotti and F. G. A. Stone, J. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans., 1989, 1855-1863.
Encyclopedia
It is not recommended to use articles from general reference books like the Encyclopaedia Britannica. You may want to get an overview from a general encyclopedia article before you research a complex and difficult topic, but do not cite such a source in your assignment.
If you use an article from a specialist encyclopedia, cite it as you would a chapter in an edited book.
Initials. Author, in Title of Encyclopedia, ed. Initials. Editor, Publisher, City, year, vol. number, page range.
P. Corradini and G. Guerra, in Macmillan Encyclopedia of Chemistry, ed. J. J. Lagowski, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, New York, 1997, vol. 4, pp. 1538-1543.