UC Referencing Guide

Format - Unpublished thesis

Author, A. A. (Year of creation). Title of work [Type of thesis]. Name of Institution.

Format - Thesis from a database

Author, A. A. (Year of creation). Title of work (Publication number) [Type of thesis, Name of Institution]. Database name.

Format - Thesis from the Web

Author, A. A. (Year of creation). Title of work [Type of thesis, Name of Institution]. Web site. URL

Examples

Brown, G. (2001). Towards an in situ technique for investigating the role nutrients play in epilithon growth in an Australian upland stream [Unpublished doctoral thesis]. University of Canberra.

Socha, A. (2010). Students' assessments of instruction: A validity study (Publication No. AAT 1462244) [Masters thesis, Western Carolina University]. Proquest Dissertations and Theses A&I.

McCaffrey, J. (2008). The extent to which clubs are perceived as learning organisations [Doctoral thesis, University of Canberra]. University of Canberra Archive. http://erl.canberra.edu.au/public/adt-AUC20081205.095000/

General guidelines

If there is no author - substitute the title in the position of the author.

Format

Title of work. (Year of publication). Publisher. DOI or URL

Example

Macroeconomics, prices and quantities: Essays in memory of Arthur M. Okun. (1983). Blackwell.

General guidelines

If the date is not known use n.d. in place of the year. If you have an approximate date use the abbreviation ca. (circa) and the approximate year.

Format

Author, A. A. (ca. year). Title of work. Publisher. DOI or URL

Author, A. A. (n.d.). Title of work. Publisher. DOI or URL

Examples

Smythe, V. (ca. 2007). Ant colonies: How they communicate. Emu.

Browne, J. D. (n.d.). Forensic science as a career. Tower.

Secondary source refers to information first reported in another source, the primary source. If it is possible, find the original source and read it, citing the original source.  If this is not possible then use the procedure below.

Provide a reference to the secondary source (the source you read) and, in-text, identify the primary source then write "as cited in" the secondary source that you used.  Include the original year if you know it.

Format

(Author 1, Year of original, as cited in Author 2, Year)

Author 1, Year of original (as cited in Author 2, Year)

In-text reference

Lilly (as cited in Maxwell, 1999) stated that ...

"..." (Schwartz, 2006, as cited in Burton et al., 2009, p.63)

Reference list

Maxwell, F. (1999). Phonology. Brooks Cole.

Burton, L., Westen, D., & Kowalski, R. (2009). Psychology. Wiley.

Thesis