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UC Referencing Guide

Computer Program

Format - Software on the Internet

Number. Author AA. Title of work [computer program on the Internet]. Version xx. Location: Publisher; Year of publication [cited Year Month Day]. Available from: http://xxxxx

Format - Software on disk

Number. Author AA. Title of work [format]. Version xx. Location: Publisher; Year of publication.

Examples

11. Biostat. Comprehensive meta-analysis [computer program on the Internet]. Version 2. Englewood (NJ): Biostat; [date unknown] [cited 2012 Nov 7]. Available from: http://www.meta-analysis.com/

14. EndNote [computer program on CD-ROM]. Version X7 for Mac. [USA]: Thomson Reuters; 2013.

CD-ROM

Format

Number. Author AA. Title of work [CD-ROM]. x ed. Version xx. Location: Publisher; Year of publication.

Examples

4. Monaco J. How to read a film: multimedia edition [CD-ROM]. Multimedia ed. New York: Harbor Electronic; 2000.

6. A House for the nation: 100 years of Australia's House of Representatives [CD-ROM]. Canberra: Dept. of the House of Representatives; 2001. Published in association with the Swish Group.

EndNote Reference Type

Computer Program - Computer Program

CD-ROM - Book (Enter CD-ROM 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