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UC Referencing Guide

Blog

Format - Full blog

Number. Author AA. Title of blog [Internet]. Location: Publisher. Year Month Day of publication [cited Year Month Day]. Available from: http://xxxxx

Format - Blog entry by blog owner

Number. Author AA. Title of blog [Internet]. Location: Publisher. Year Month Day of start of blog. Title of blog entry; Year Month Day of publication [cited Year Month Day]; [about xx screens]. Available from: http://xxxxx

Format - Blog entry by author not the blog owner

Number. Author AA. Title of blog entry. Year Month Day of publication [cited Year Month Day]. In: Blog Owner. Title of blog [Internet]. Location: Publisher. Year Month Day of start of blog. [about xx screens]. Available from: http://xxxxx

Example - Blog entry

8. Keirn B. ID error leaves fish at edge of extinction. 2009 Nov 18 [cited 2009 Nov 20]. In: Wired. Wired Science Blog [Internet]. [place unknown]: Wired. [date unknown]. [about 4 screens]. Available from: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/11/extinction-error/

 

Format - Comment on a blog post

Number. Author AA. Comment on: "Original blog post". Year Month Day of comment [cited Year Month Day]. In: Blog Owner. Title of blog [Internet]. Location: Publisher. Year Month Day of start of blog. [about xx screens]. Available from: http://xxxxx

Example - Comment on a blog post

QuantumLo0p. Comment on: "ID error leaves fish at edge of extinction". 2009 Nov 19 [cited 2009 Nov 20]. In: Wired. Wired Science Blog [Internet]. [place unknown]: Wired. [date unknown]. [about 1 screen]. Available from: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/11/extinction-error/

 

Format - Discussion list

Number. Author AA. Title of message. In: Title of discussion list [Internet]. Location: Publisher; Year Month Day of publication [cited Year Month Day]. [about xx screens]. Available from: http://xxxxx (optional)

Example - Discussion list

7. Weidner D. KM reducing in popularity. In: ActKM [Internet]. [place unknown]: ActKM; 2007 Jun 11 [cited 2007 Jun 11]. [about 2 screens].

7. Weidner D. KM reducing in popularity. In: ActKM [Internet]. [place unknown]: ActKM; 2007 Jun 11 [cited 2007 Jun 11]. [about 2 screens]. Available from: http://actkm.org/mailman/listinfo/actkm_actkm.org

YouTube

Format

Number. Author AA. Title of work [Internet]. Location: Publisher; Year Month Day of creation [cited Year Month Day]. Video: xx min. Available from: http://xxxx

Example

5. Rudd K. Update on new G20 arrangements [Internet]. Canberra: Kevin Rudd; 2009 Sep 29 [cited 2009 Nov 20]. Video: 2 min. Available from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8IdJ-0S5rs

EndNote Reference Type

Blog - Blog (Enter post date in Last Update Date, owner of blog in Editor, date of start of blog in Year, about xx screens in Description)

Discussion List - Book Section (Enter Post in Title, discussion list name in Book Title, full date of post in Year, about xx screens in Section)

YouTube - Online Multimedia (Enter full date in Year, Location and publisher in Distributor, cited date in Cited Year and Cited Date, Video: xx min in Type of Work)

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