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Basic Format to Reference a Thesis

Format for footnotes for a thesis:

Example:

1 C. Suwetwattanakul, Developing a Knowledge Sharing Model for the Implementation of the Learning Organization in Thailand, Ph.D. diss., Melbourne, Victoria University, 2010, p. 267.

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Thesis: Print

1 C. Suwetwattanakul, Developing a Knowledge Sharing Model for the Implementation of the Learning Organization in Thailand, Ph.D. diss., Melbourne, Victoria University, 2010, p. 267.

Don't include the city or state location if it is in the title of the University.

Suwetwattanakul, C., Developing a Knowledge Sharing Model for the Implementation of the Learning Organization in Thailand, Ph.D. diss., Melbourne, Victoria University, 2010.

Thesis: Online

1 S. Franz, Drought in the Lives of Rural Australians: A Sociological Inquiry, MA diss., Melbourne, Victoria University, 2010, pp. 55-56, http://vuir.vu.edu.au/1278, (accessed 12 October 2011).

Franz, S., Drought in the Lives of Rural Australians: A Sociological Inquiry, MA diss., Melbourne, Victoria University, 2010, http://vuir.vu.edu.au/1278, (accessed 12 October 2011).