ANNEX 3:
QUICK GUIDE TO REFERENCING
In order to encourage national, regional and international exchanges of concepts and knowledge as well
as existing good practices in mass housing, we require you to acknowledge all the sources of
information that you have used, whether you are directly copying the words of another author (quoting)
or putting their ideas into your own words (paraphrasing). This is so you can:
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prove that your work has a substantial, factual basis;
show the research you've done to reach your conclusions, and
allow your readers to identify and retrieve the references for their own use.
For the purposes of this competition, we are using the widely-accepted ‘Harvard’ referencing style. Each
reference is indicated by the author and date of the publication cited, sometimes with added
information such as page numbers. Whilst completing the competition questionnaire, you will need to
specify the Source, Reference Citation and Year (of Publication).
There are five types of sources:
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Book
Journal Article
Newspaper Article
Website
Other
Examples of Reference Citations include:
1. Book
Book – single author
Author’s surname, Initials Year, Title of book, Edition, Publisher, Place of publication.
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Carroll, AB 2012, Business & society: ethics, sustainability, and stakeholder management, 8th edn,
South-Western/Cengage Learning, Mason, OH.
Book – more than one author
Note: List all authors, in order of appearance on the title page of the book, and use an ampersand (&) to
separate the last two.
Kuratko, DF, Goldsby, MG & Hornsby, JS 2012, Innovation acceleration: transforming organizational
thinking, Pearson, Boston.
Chalkley, T, Brown, A, Goodman, M, Cinque, T, Warren, B, Hobbs, M & Finn, M 2012, Communication,
new media and everyday life, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, Vic.
Book – organization as author
Name of organization, Year of publication, Title, Publisher, Place of publication.
Business Council of Australia 2010, Balancing act: fiscal and policy priorities to support growth: BCA
budget submission 2010-11, Business Council of Australia, Melbourne.
2. Journal Article
Note: Capitalize the first letter of the first word, and each of the major words of the journal name. Do
not use capital letters for words such as on, for, in, and. E.g. The Australian Journal of Language and
Literacy.
Author(s) of article - surname and initials Year of publication, ‘Title of article’, Journal name, volume
number, issue number, page number(s).
Taylor, CM, Karunaratne, CV & Xie, N 2012, ‘Glycosides of hydroxyproline: some recent, unusual
discoveries’, Glycobiology, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 757-767.
3. Newspaper Article
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Note: Capitalize the first letter of the first word, and each of the major words of the newspaper name.
Author’s surname, Initials Year of publication, ‘Title of article’, Newspaper name, day month, page
number(s).
Arup, T 2012, ‘Solar panels incentives at risk’, The Age, 18 May, p. 3.
4. Website
Note: Many electronic sources do not provide page numbers unless they are in PDF format.
Author/editor Year of document, Title of document, name of the sponsor of the source, date of viewing,
<URL>.
Reference List:
Better Health Channel 2012, Body image and diets, Better Health Channel, viewed 28 September 2012,
<http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Body_image_and_diets?open>.
5. Other
Note: If you are using information from any other source, please provide as much information as
possible regarding: Author, Title, Year, etc.
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