Writing a Bibliography:
Harvard Style (author, date)
A Bibliography
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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
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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
Cotterell, A 1994, China, Dorling Kindersley,
London.
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
Pretty, J 2004, ‘We are what we eat’, New
Scientist, no. 2468, 9 October, pp. 44-46.
Author (surname, initial) date, ‘title of article’, title of magazine, issue no., date
of issue, 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
Clarke, T 2004, ‘Alcohol is killing our youth’,
Canberra Times, 13 November, p.1.
Author (surname, initial) date, ‘title of article’, title of newspaper, date, page
number/s.
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
Cancer helpline 2005, Cancer Council of
Australia, viewed 15 November 2005,
<http://www.cancer.org.au/content.cfm?randid=541609>.
Title of web page last update, name of sponsor, date viewed, <URL>.
Bibliography
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A list all references
In alphabetical order
Bibliography
Aldhous, P 2008, ‘Genes for greens’, New Scientist, vol. 197, no. 2637, pp. 28-31.
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>.
Cancer helpline 2005, Cancer Council of Australia, viewed 15 November 2007,
<http://www.cancer.org.au/content.cfm?randid=541609>.
Clarke, T 2004, ‘Alcohol is killing our youth’, Canberra Times, 13 November, p.1.
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>.