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UC Referencing Guide

Book Chapter/Section - by Book Author

General guidelines

"Parts of Books" in Citing Medicine includes chapters, sections, tables, charts, graphs, photographs, appendices, etc. when they are written or compiled by the author of the book.

Format

Number. Author AA. Title of book. Location: Publisher; Year of publication. Title of chapter or entry; p. xx-xx.

Number. Author AA. Title of book [type of medium]. Location: Publisher; Year of publication. Title of chapter or entry; [cited Year Month Day]; p. xx-xx. Available from: Database name or http://xxxxx

Examples

1. Rose PR. Cultural competency for health administration and public health. Sudbury (MA): Jones and Bartlett; 2011. Chapter 11, Cultural competence and women of color; p. 123-42.

2. World Health Report 2003 [monograph on the Internet]. [place unknown]: World Health Organization; 2003. Chapter 6, Neglected global epidemics: three growing threats; [cited 2012 Nov 12]; p. 83-102. Available from: Academic Search Complete.

Book Chapter/Section - by Contributing Author

General guidelines

Chapters, sections, tables, charts, graphs, photographs, appendices, etc. are considered "contributions" when the book has an overall editor or editors and the individual chapters are written by various authors (contributors).

Format

Number. Author AA. Title of chapter or entry. In: Editor A, Editor B, editors. Title of book. Location: Publisher; Year of publication. p. xx-xx.

Number. Author AA. Title of chapter or entry. In: Editor A, Editor B, editors. Title of book [type of medium]. Location: Publisher; Year of publication [cited Year Month Day]. p. xx-xx or [about xx screens]. Available from: Database name.

Number. Author AA. Title of chapter or entry. In: Editor A, Editor B, editors. Title of book [type of medium]. Location: Publisher; Year of publication [updated/revised Year Month Day; cited Year Month Day]. p. xx-xx or [about xx screens]. Available from: http://xxxxx

Examples

3. Richards KC. Views on globalization. In: Vivaldi HL, editor. Australia in a global world. North Ryde (Australia): Century; 1997. p. 29-43.

4. Fullan M. Leadership for change. In: Leithwood K, Chapman J, Corson D, Hallinger P, Hart A, editors. International handbook for educational leadership and administration. New York: Kluwer Academic; 1996. p. 701-22.

5. Levin C, Ury C. Welcoming Big Brother: the malaise of confidentiality in the therapeutic culture. In: Koggel C, Furlong A, Levin C, editors. Confidential relationships [monograph on the Internet]. [place unknown]: Editions Rodopi BV; 2003 [cited 2012 Nov 8]. p. 61-81. Available from: Academic Search Complete.

Relevant Chapter in Citing Medicine

EndNote Reference Type

Chapter by the Author - Electronic Book Section (Enter format in Type of Work, revision date in Date, cited date in Access Date, about xx screens in Section)

Chapter by other than Author - Book Section (Enter format in Type of Work, cited date in Access Date, about xx screens in Section)

Citing a Source Within a Source

When citing a source you haven't read yourself, but which is referred to in a source you have read.

In-text reference

Lilly as cited in Maxwell (3) stated that '...'

Burton (5) quoted Schwartz ...

References

3. Maxwell F. Phonology. San Franisco: Brooks Cole; 1999.

5. Burton L, Westen D, Kowalski R. Psychology. Milton (Australia): Wiley; 2009.

No Author / Editor

If no author or editor is present, start your reference with the Title of the item.

Example

5. Macroeconomics, prices and quantities: essays in memory of Arthur M. Okun. Oxford: Blackwell; 1983.

No Location / No Publisher / No Year

If no location is present substitute an inferred place [Chicago?] or the phrase [place unknown].

If no publisher is present substitute the phrase [publisher unknown].

If no year is present substitute an approximate date [1976?] or the phrase [date unknown].

Examples

7. Smythe V. Ant colonies: how they communicate. Canberra: Emu Press; [2007?].

12. Browne JD. Forensic science as a career. London: Tower Publishing; [date unknown].

16. Hawaii [map on the Internet]. [place, publisher, date unknown] [cited 2012 Jul 20]. Available from: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6Ckq2CCag0Q/Tr4plGlC-HI/AAAAAAAACLo/CjKZCLjyAvk/s1600/islands-of-hawaii-map.gif