Citation Resources

Book

In Text Citations

Reference List

No Author

Title (Year, p. #)

Title of book Year of publication, Publisher, Place of publication.

(Title Year, p. #)

One Author

(Last Name Year)

Author, AA Year of publication, Title of book, Publisher, Place of publication.

(Last Name Year, p. #)

Two – Three Authors

(Last Name 1^st Author & Last Name 2^nd Author Year)

Authors, AA , Author, BB & Author, CC Year of publication, Title of book, Publisher, Place of publication.

(Last Name 1^st Author & Last Name 2^nd Author Year, p. #)

(Last Name 1^st Author, Last Name 2^nd Author & Last Name 3^rd Author Year)

Multiple Authors (four or more)

(Last Name 1^st Author et al. Year)

Authors, AA, Author, BB, Author, CC, Author, DD, Author, EE & Author, FF Year of publication, Title of book, Publisher, Place of publication.

(Last Name 1^st Author et al. Year, p. #)

Last Name of 1^st Author et al. (Year, p. #)

Indirect Source (a book is citing someone else)

Source Name (cited in Book Last Name 1^st Author & Last Name 2^nd Author Year, p. #)

Freud's study (as cited in Smith et al., 1983)…

Authors Year of publication, Title of book, Publisher, Place of publication.

Smith, P, Jones, M & Black, J 1983, Introduction to psychology: a reader, McGraw-Hill, New York.

(Source Author cited in Book Last Name 1^st Author & Last Name 2^nd Author Year, p. #)

(Freud cited in Smith, Jones & Black 2005, p. 40)

Journal

In Text Citations

Reference List

One Author

Last Name (Year, p. #)

Author Year of publication, 'Title of article', Name of Publication, Volume, Issue, Page numbers.

(Last Name Year, p. #)

Two – Three Authors

Last Name 1^st Author and Last Name 2^nd Author (Year, p. #)

Authors Year of publication, 'Title of article', Name of Publication, Volume number, Issue details, Page number(s).

(Last Name 1^st Author, Last Name 2^nd Author & Last Name 3^rd Author Year, pp. #)

Multiple Authors

Last Name of 1^st Author et al. (Year, p. #)

Authors Year of publication, 'Title of article', Name of Publication, Volume, Issue, Page numbers.

(Last Name of 1^st Author et al. Year, p. #)

Electronic Journal (from a database)

Last Name (Year, p. #)

Author Year of publication, 'Title of article', Name of Publication, Volume, Issue, Page numbers, date of viewing, <URL>.

(Last Name Year, p. #)

Electronic Source 

In Text Citations

Reference List

Web page with author

Last Name (Year)

Author (the person or organization responsible for the site) Year (Date web site created/revised), Title (name and place of the sponsor of the source), viewed Date (day, month, year), <URL>.

(Last Name Year)

Blog post

Last Name (Year)

Author of post <Author details> Date of posting, 'Title of posting', Description of posting, Name of list owner, Date of viewing, <URL>.

(Last Name Year)