Bibliography
Your bibliography should list the books and other sources used by you
in preparation of your essay or thesis. It is placed at the end of your
essay or thesis.
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sources:
Sample bibliography entries for:
Book
In your bibliographical entry the last name always comes first.
Franklin, John Hope. George Washington Williams: A
Biography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
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Book with Two Authors
In the bibliography the last name of the first author is given first;
the name of the second author is given in its natural order. The conjunction
joining the two names is preceded by a comma.
Burleigh, Michael and Wolfgang Wippermann. The Racial State: Germany
133-1945.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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entry click here.
Chapter in an edited book
The title of the chapter is placed in quotation marks. The word "In"
precedes the book title.
Bartov, Omer. "Savage War." In Confronting the Nazi
Past. New Debates on Modern German History, edited by Michael Burleigh,
125-139. London: Collins & Brown, 1996.
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Journal article
Title of the article is placed in quotation marks. Title of the
journal is italicised.
Baranowski, Shelley. "East Elbian Landed Elites and Germany's
Turn to Fascism: The Sonderweg Controversy Revisited." European History
Quarterly 26 (1996): 209-240.
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Book Reviews
Spitzer, Steven. Review of The Limits of Law Enforcement,by
Hans Zeisal, American Journal of Sociology91 (November 1985):
726-29.
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entry click here.
Newspapers
Individual items from daily papers are seldom listed separately in
a bibiliography. Instead, the name of the paper and the run of dates
used is given.
The Age, 1893-1900.
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Theses and dissertations
Cassidy, Megan Estelle. "Thirteenth-century English Cistercian
Monasteries: Monastic Spaces and their Meanings." Ph.D., University
of Melbourne, 1997.
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Unpublished material
U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. "Lobbying." File
234, RG 104. National Archives, Washington D.C.
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Internet sites
The correct order when citing sources from the Internet is:
- author's name
- author's internet address, if appropriate
- title of work or title line of message
- title of complete work or title of list/site, as appropriate
- internet address (URL)
- menu path, if appropriate
- date, if available
- archived at, if appropriate
- date accessed
Davison, Graeme. "On History and Hypertext," Electronic
Journal of Australian and New Zealand History; created 19 August
1997; available from http://www.jcu.edu.au/aff/history/new.htm; accessed
15 July 1999.
German Foreign Office Memorandum, Hewel Berchtesgarden
to State Secretary von Weizsacker, 29 June 1939; available from http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/nazsov/062939.htm;
archived at the Avalon Project, Yale University Law School 1997; accessed
4 April 1998.
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