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UC Referencing Guide

Wiki

Format - Wiki

Number. Title of Wiki [wiki on the Internet]. Location: Publisher. Year Month Day of start of wiki - [cited Year Month Day]. Available from: http://xxxxx

Format - Wiki entry with known author

Number. Author AA. Title of Entry. Year Month Day of creation [cited Year Month Day]. In: Wiki title [wiki on the Internet]. Location: Publisher. Year Month Day of start of wiki - . [about xx screens]. Available from: http://xxxxx

Format - Wiki entry without author

Number. Title of wiki [wiki on the Internet]. Location: Publisher. Year Month Day of start of wiki - . Title of entry; Year Month Day of creation [cited Year Month Day]; [about xx screens]. Available from: http://xxxxx

Examples

7. Wikiversity [wiki on the Internet]. St Petersburg (FL): Wikimedia Foundation. 2006 Aug - . Great debates in media literacy: theory and practice of media literacy; 2009 Oct 7 [cited 2012 Nov 8]; [about 12 screens]. Available from: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Great_Debates_in_Media_Literacy

10. Preator A. Adding a persistent link to the Encore record display. 2012 Apr 23 [cited 2012 Jul 26]. In: CSDirect wiki: Encore [wiki on the Internet]. Emeryville (CA): Innovative Interfaces. [date unknown]. [about 6 screens]. Available from: http://csdirect.iii.com/lswiki/Encore/PermaLink

14. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [wiki on the Internet]. St Petersburg (FL): Wikimedia Foundation. 2001 - . Tunguska event; 2012 Jun 20 [cited 2012 Jul 26]; [about 17 screens]. Available from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

EndNote Reference Type

Wiki - Whole - Electronic Book (Enter full date in Year)

Wiki with Author - Dataset (Enter author in Investigators, Wiki title in Secondary Title, Wiki entry date in Year, Wiki start date in Original Date, about xx screens in Notes)

Wiki without Author - Electronic Book Section (Enter Wiki start date in Year, Wiki entry date in 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