Sample reference list

Reference list

Bartsch, Konrad. 1941. So Sah Ich Moskau. Gauverlag-NS-Schlesien. Microfilm.

Camus, Albert. 1988. The Stranger. Translated by Michael Ward. A. A. Knopf.

Hunter, Victoria, ed. 2015. Moving Sites: Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance. Taylor & Francis Group. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/unimelb/detail.action?docID=2005377.

Ministerial Advisory Committee. 2015. Plan Melbourne Review 2015: Report by the Ministerial Advisory Committee. Melbourne: State Government of Victoria. http://www.planmelbourne.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/377133/MAC_2015_Final_Report.pdf.

Liebovitz, Annie. 1990. Robert La Fosse, New York City. In Annie Liebovitz. 2002. Dancers: Photographs by Annie Liebovitz. Smithsonian Institution Press.

Mussorgsky, Modest. 1939. "Reverie" in Complete Collected Works. Edited by Pavel Lamm. Muzgiz. https://imslp.org/wiki/Reverie_(Mussorgsky%2C_Modest).

Noriega, Jimmy A. (2019). Review of Latin History for Morons, created and performed by John Leguizamo, directed by Tony Taccone, Studio 54, New York City. Theatre Journal 71, no. 1 (March 2019): 100-102. doi:10.1353/tj.2019.0009.

Pollan, Michael. 2006. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. Penguin.

Ryan, Janette. 2011. "Teaching and Learning for International Students: Towards a Transcultural Approach." Teachers & Teaching 17, no. 6: 631-48. https://doi-org.ezp.lib.unimelb.edu.au/10.1080/13540602.2011.625138.

Samuels, Stuart. 1966. “The Left Book Club.” Journal of Contemporary History 1, no. 2: 65–86.

Wallis, Pip. 2017. Del Kathryn Barton: The Highway is a Disco. National Gallery of Victoria.


About the Reference List

The reference list:

  • Lists each of the sources referred to in your footnotes alphabetically by author surname*
  • Appears on its own page at the end of your work
  • Has a hanging indent
  • Has the heading: Reference List
  • Inverts the author's name to Surname, Given Name. When a resource has multiple authors, only the first author's name is inverted.
  • Can be divided into sections (e.g. primary and secondary sources; discography; music scores).

*Personal communications are not included in the reference list.

Abbreviations

Acceptable abbreviations in the reference list for parts of books and other publications include:

chap. or ch. chapter
ed. edition
et al. and others
rev. ed. revised edition
2nd ed. second edition
ed. (eds) editor (editors)
trans. translator(s)
n.d. no date
vol. volume (as in vol. 4)
vols volumes (as in 4 vols.)
no. number
suppl. supplement
s.v. under the word

Annotated Bibliography

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