Here is a summary (from the course handbooks) of referencing advice, based on the Chicago Manual of Style. For most undergraduate coursework, this should be all you need.
Key points:
- Bibliographic information is in Notes and a bibliography (final page of your paper).
- N.b.: when quoting a text in note the first name (=’Christian name’) is mentioned before the surname, and the publisher’s details are in parentheses, as in the following example:
Vivianne Crowley, Wicca: The Old Religion in the New Millennium (London: Thorsons, 1996).
Bibliographies:
Book with one author
- Crowley, Vivianne. Wicca: The Old Religion in the New Millennium. London: Thorsons, 1996.
Book with two authors
- Hexam, Irving and Karla Poewe, Understanding Cults and New Religions. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing Co, 1987.
Book with more than three authors
- Laumann, Edward O., John H. Gagnon, Robert T. Michael, and Stuart Michaels. The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Editor, translator, or compiler
- Lattimore, Richmond, trans. The Iliad of Homer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951.
Journal article
- Rountree, Kathryn, ‘The case of the missing Goddess: Plurality Power and Prejudice in Reconstructions of Malta’s Neolithic past’. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 19:3, (2003), 25–44.
Newspaper article
- Niederkorn, William S., ‘A Scholar Recants on His ‘Shakespeare’ Discovery,’ New York Times, 20 June 2002, Arts section, Midwest edition.
Book review
- Gorman, James. ‘Endangered Species.’ Review of The Last American Man, by Elizabeth Gilbert. New York Times Book Review, 2 June 2002, 16.
Websites
- ‘The San Antonio College LitWeb John Bunyan Page’, http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/bunyan.htm. (Last accessed 11/11/09).
Film
- Aronofsky, D. Requiem for a Dream. [DVD]. UK: Momentum Pictures, 2000.
- Lord, P & Park, N. Chicken Run. [VHS Video]. UK: Pathe Distribution, 2000.
If you are in any doubt about any aspect of this, you should, in the first instance, speak to your seminar tutor.
