Skills session November 2012

Writing a Bibliography:Harvard Style (author, date)

A Bibliography

• Is a list of your sources of information• Helps you to find the information again• Shows your teacher where you found the

information

Plagiarism is

• Using the ideas, words or work of another person and pretending it is your own work

Book – 1 author

Povey, K 2007, Energy alternatives, Thomson Gale, Detroit.

Author (surname, initial) date, title, publisher, place of publication (city).

Healey, J 2001, Alternative energy, Spinney Press, Balmain, N.S.W.

Book – no author

Dictionary of chemistry, 2003, McGraw-Hill, New York.

Title, date, publisher, place of publication (city).

Answer check

Cattell, T 1980, This Earth vol. 2, Educational Supplies, Brookvale.

Author (surname, initial) date, title, publisher, place of publication (city).

Magazine

Aldhous, P 2008, ‘Genes for greens’, New Scientist, vol. 197, no. 2637, pp. 28-31.

Author (surname, initial) date, ‘title of article’, title of magazine, volume no., issue no., page number/s.

Answer check

Attard, C, November 2012, ‘Great Barrier Grief’, SPress, vol.10, no. 9, p. 12.

Author (surname, initial) date, ‘title of article’, title of magazine, issue no., page/s.

Newspaper

Oakley, V 2003, ‘The tragic trade’, Australian, 15 November, p. 29.

Author (surname, initial) date, ‘title of article’, title of newspaper, date, page number/s.

Answer check

Babel, P 2012, ‘Fat cat’s race slur‘, HeraldSun, 12 November 2012, p. 3.

Internet - author

Bryant, C 2008, Deliberately lit vegetation fires in Australia, Australian Institute of Criminology, viewed 2 May 2008, <http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi2/tandi350.html>.

Author (surname, initial) last update, title of web page, name of sponsor, date viewed, <URL>.

Internet – no author

Space food 2003, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, viewed 2 May 2008, <http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/living/spacefood/index.html>.

Title of web page last update, name of sponsor, date viewed, <URL>.

Answer check

“Geography for kids: Antarctica” Ducksters November 2012, Technological Solutions Inc., viewed 13 November 2012, <www.ducksters.com/geography/antarctica.php>.

Title of web page last update, name of sponsor, date viewed, <URL>.

Bibliography

• A list of all references• In alphabetical order

Bibliography

Attard, C, November 2012, ‘Great Barrier Grief’, SPress, vol.10, no. 9, p. 12.

Aldhous, P 2008, ‘Genes for greens’, New Scientist, vol. 197, no. 2637, pp. 28-31.

Babel, P 2012, ‘Fat cat’s race slur‘, Herald Sun, 12 November 2012, p. 3.

Bryant, C 2008, Deliberately lit vegetation fires in Australia, Australian Institute of Criminology, viewed 2 May, 2008 <http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi2/tandi350.html >.

Clarke, T 2004, ‘Alcohol is killing our youth’, Canberra Times, 13 November, p.1.

“Geography for kids: Antarctica” Ducksters November 2012, Technological Solutions Inc., viewed 13 November 2012, <www.ducksters.com/geography/antarctica.php>.

Oakley, V 2003, ‘The tragic trade’, Australian, 15 November, p. 29.

Pretty, J 2004, ‘We are what we eat’, New Scientist, no. 2468, 9 October, pp. 44-46.

Space food 2003, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, viewed 02 May 2008, <http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/living/spacefood/index.html >.