You MUST reference if you:
Failure to acknowledge your source is plagiarism and is unacceptable. Below are examples of how to reference the following correctly.
1. Citations Chapters, Essays and Articles
2. Primary Sources: Unpublished, Unofficial
2.a Email Messages
2.b Original Records
2.c Oral History Interviews
3. Primary Sources: Published, Official
3.a Books with 1 author
3.b Chapters, Essays and Articles
3.c Pamphlet without an acknowledged author
3.d Periodicals and Journals
3.e Reference Book
4. CD Rom
5. Internet Sources
6. Material in Archival Institutions
7. Secondary Sources
7.a Newspaper with author
8. Newspaper Editorial
1. Citations
Rule
Citations (footnotes, endnotes or in-text) are used to credit the sources of specific ideas as well as information and quotations
and must be included at Year levels 9 – 12.The basic rule is: Present sufficient citation for a judge to find the origins of and check on the accuracy
of what you have written. The citation needs to include sufficient information for a person to locate that source and check the accuracy of your use of it.
This is not required for Year levels 5 – 8.
Sample
1. Pike, D. Paradise of Dissent, Melbourne University Press, 1957, p. 114
2. Primary Sources: Unpublished, Unofficial
2.a Email Message
Sample
V Chlap, WWW Page Standards (email from veronica@naa.gov.au to kerriw@naa.gov.au), 10 May 1998
2.b Original Records (eg Letters)
Rule
For original records such as letters, identify the sender and receiver, the date of the letter, and where the record is kept.
Sample
Letter from Susan Brown to Eric Brown, dated 3.4.1918 (original in family archives).
2.c Oral History Interviews
Sample
Interview with Mrs C. Zanetti, 5 May 1998.
3.Primary Sources: Published, Official
3.a Books with one author
Rule
Cite:
Sample
Olesnicki, G. 1993, The World Around Us, Redback Books, New York
3.b Chapters, Essays and Articles (included in volume edited by another).
Sample
Riley, M.S. and Heller, J.I. 1983, “Development of children’s problem-solving ability”, in The Development of Mathematical Thinking, ed H.P. Ginsberg, Academic Press, New York, pp 153-196
3.c Pamphlet without an acknowledged author
Sample
Peanuts Puff” 1968 Sweet ‘n Thin. The Pillsbury Company, p. 30
3.d Periodicals and Journals
Sample
Oeland, Glenn,. 1996 “Emperors of the Ice”. National Geographic, Vol. 189, No. 3, March 1996 pp. 53-71
3.e Reference Books
Rule
Cite:
Sample
“Glacier”, World Book Encyclopaedia, Chicago: Field Enterprises, c 1992. vol. 8. pp. 173-176
4. CD ROM
Sample
Tropical Fish”, Microsoft Encarta, Funk& Wagnalls Corporation, 1994
5. Internet Sources
Rule
Cite:
For archival institutions you should identify which institution holds the original records and give the numbers they use so that others can locate the documents.
Sample
Limb, P. May 1992, Relationships between Labour and African Nationalist Liberation Movements in South Africa http://neal.ctstateu.edu/history/
worldhistory/archives/limb-L.html. Retrieved 03-12-03.
6. Material in Archival Institutions
Rule:For archival institutions you should identify which institution holds the
original records and give the numbers they use so that others can locate the documents.
Sample
National Archives of Australia: A1608/1, V45/1/12 Part 1, War Records. Conscription.
National Archives of Australia: A1, 1904/3421, E. Gaudron Application for Certificate of Naturalization
7. Secondary Sources
7. aNewspaper with author
Sample
Costa, Gabrielle, “Rabbit virus feared in Vic”, The Age, 16 March, 1996, p. 3
8. Newspaper Editorial
Sample
“Time to give Aunty a check up”, Herald Sun, 22 March, 1996, p. 18
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