Databases
General
Gale OneFile: Australia and New Zealand
Gale in Context: Middle School
Humanities
Journal Storage: JSTOR
Science
Gale in Context: Science
Literature
Gale Literature Resource Centre
Gale in Context: Literature
Referencing
A Bibliography includes all sources consulted during research for your assignment.
Written assignments usually require a Reference List which includes only those resources actually referred to in the text of your assignment. The list may include different types of resources – books, magazine, newspaper and encyclopaedia articles, video programs, information from whole websites, or documents from online databases. Indooroopilly State High School primarily uses the APA 7 referencing style for assignments, unless otherwise stated.
To assist preparation of a Reference List:
- record the bibliographic information on a rough reference sheet as you use each resource
- check details directly from the item – the correct spelling of names, places, titles etc
- use Microsoft Word or other Online Bibliographic Sites to record your reference lists
- NOTE: record the call number or location details of resources used in libraries to help you relocate the resource. Do not record these details on your final Reference List.
Include these details, in this order, for all items in your Reference List:
Author/Editor (surname first) date of publication, title, publisher, place of publication.
In brief, record NAPPY from each source consulted. Name, Author, Publisher, Place, Year, together with the URL (Universal Resource Locator), date viewed for online resources.
The exact format for each entry will depend on the type of resource, and the publication details that are available. Where information is not available, use abbreviations – n.d. for no date; n.p. for no publisher or no place of publication.
Here are examples showing how to list
- a book with 1 author
King, J 2012, A guide to referencing and bibliographies for secondary school students, 4th edn, SLAQ, [Mount Gravatt, QLD.]
Wilkinson, C 2015, Atmospheric: the burning story of climate change, Black Dog Books, Newtown. - a book with multiple authors (if more than 7 use 1st Author + 'et al.')
Dysart, D, King, N & Hanru, H 2006, Guan Wei, Craftsman House, Fishermans Bend, Victoria. - a book with an editor
Oertel, A (ed.) 2013, The Queensland law handbook: your practical guide to the law, 12th edn, Caxton Legal Centre, South Brisbane. - author/editor unknown
Collins world atlas: essential edition, 4th edn, 2015, Collins, Glasgow. - a journal, newspaper, or encyclopaedia article – author known
Burrell, T 2015 'Circuit train your brain', New Scientist, 22 August. - a journal, newspaper, or encyclopaedia article – author unknown
'Global warming' 2015, The World Book encyclopedia, vol. 8, World Book, Chicago, pp. 232-232d. - a journal article from an online database
Burkette, M 2015, 'Lessons from contemporary resettlement in the South Pacific', Journal of International Affairs, vol.68. no.2., pp. 75-91, in Expanded Academic ASAP, viewed 20 November 2015, < http://goo.gl/f7N4s3>. (This is a shortened URL) - video program
Handwriting tips 2015, video recording, Clickview Video, n.p. - online video
'The enchanting music of sign language: Christine Sun Kim' n.d., YouTube, online video clip, posted 19 November 2015 by TED TALKS, viewed 20 November 2015, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Euof4PnjDk>. - a website
Indooroopilly State High School, 2015, Indooroopilly State High School, Brisbane, viewed 20 November 2015, <http://www.indoorooshs.eq.edu.au/> - a document within a website
UNHCR 2012, 'Protecting refugees: & the role of UNHCR', UNHCR, viewed 20 November 2015, <http://unhcr.org.au/unhcr/images/protecting%20refugees.pdf>. - a Wikipedia article
'Refugees' 2015, Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, last edited 19 November, Wikipedia Foundation, viewed 20 November 2015, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RefugeeNovember>
*Punctuation – use of capitals, quotation marks ' ', consistent and correct spacing between items in the entry, titles that are underlined or in italics are all important in the final presentation.
Accuracy of information and consistency in presentation are essential in a well-prepared reference list.
List your reference list in alphabetical order by the author/editor's surname or the title where the author is unknown.
For more information on the APA 7 referencing style, you can find the UQ style guide here: https://guides.library.uq.edu.au/referencing/apa7