Organisation as author


You may need to consult more than one section to accurately represent the source used (eg. number of authors and source descriptions)


Elements, punctuation & capitalisation

8. Organisation name, Title of Book (Place of Publication: Publisher, year), page number(s).

Footnote example

First entry:

8. Museum of Victoria, Bunjilaka: The Aboriginal Centre at Melbourne Museum (Melbourne: Museum Victoria, 2000), 43.

Second and subsequent entries:

28. Museum of Victoria, Bunjilaka, 57.


Format for bibliography entries

Elements, punctuation & capitalisation

Organisation name. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, year.

Bibliography entry example

Museum of Victoria. Bunjilaka: The Aboriginal Centre at Melbourne Museum. Melbourne: Museum Victoria, 2000.


Style notes for this reference type

  • See Manual 14.84.
  • Capitalise the first letter of every significant word.
  • 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, 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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