One author
You may need to consult more than one section to accurately represent the source used (eg. number of authors and source descriptions)
Format for footnotes
Elements, punctuation & capitalisation
2. Author, Title of Book (Place of publication: Publisher, year), page number(s).
Footnote Example
First entry:
2. Kristin Otto, Yarra: A Diverting History (Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2009), 12.
5. Karen S. Clippinger, Dance anatomy and kinesiology, 2nd ed. (Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2016), 124.
Second and subsequent entries:
22. Otto, Yarra, 43.
25. Clippinger, Dance anatomy, 127.
Format for bibliography entries
Elements, punctuation & capitalisation
Author (surname, given name). Title of Book. Place of publication: Publisher, year.
Bibliography entry example
Otto, Kristin. Yarra: A Diverting History. Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2009.
Clippinger, Karen S. Dance anatomy and kinesiology. 2nd ed. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2016.
Style notes for this reference type
- See Manual 14.100 and 14.75
- Specify the edition if it is not the first edition.
- In the footnotes, do not use ‘p’ or ‘pp’ before the page numbers.
- In the bibliography (but not the footnotes), invert the name (i.e. surname, given name).
- In the bibliography, no page numbers are given for books. Give beginning and ending page numbers for book chapters.
- Use the shortened form for second and subsequent footnotes.
- For online books, include the DOI (or URL) as the last part of the citation and refer to section headings in lieu of page numbers.
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