Stanmore Library (7-12): Referencing Toolkit: Sample Reference List

What is it?

Your Reference List should be located on a separate page at the end of your essay and titled: Reference List.

It should include the details of all your footnotes, arranged alphabetically A-Z by author surname.

Other points to note:

In your footnotes, the author’s given name precedes the surname i.e. P. Grimshaw, while in the Reference List the surname comes first i.e. Grimshaw, P.
If the work has no author use the first substantive word of the title (not The or A) to insert it into the alphabetical sequence.
In the Reference List include the full page range of a journal article or book chapter, e.g. pp. 165-217.
Page numbers are not required for entire books in the Reference List.
If you have cited more than one work by the same author, you should arrange them by date with the earliest first. If the dates are the same add a lower case letter after the date to differentiate between two such publications, e.g. 1996a, 1996b. See the Flannery citations in the Reference List example below. Use this convention in your footnotes as well.
Some teachers may require your Reference List to be divided into Primary and Secondary Sources. See an example of a Separated Reference List below.

Example: Reference List

Printable examples

Oxford Referencing Sample Reference List

Reference List

Addo, P., and Besnier, N., 'When Gifts Become Commodities: Pawnshops, Valuables, and Shame in Tonga and the Tongan Diaspora', Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 14, no. 1, 2008, pp. 35-40

Alexander, S., 'Peace March in Melbourne' [letter to W.R. Gibson], 1 November 1911, Professor W.R. Gibson Collection, University of Melbourne Archives, Melbourne, VIC, Box 2/1/1.

Australian State of the Environment Committee, Australia State of the Environment 2001: Independent Report to the Commonwealth Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Collingwood, VIC, CSIRO Publishing, 2001.

Beever, E.A. (ed.), Ecological Consequences of Climate Change, Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press, 2012.

Booth, B.D., Murphy, S.D., and Swanton, C.J., Invasive Plant Ecology in Natural and Agricultural Systems, 2nd edn., Cambridge, MA., CABI, 2011. Bredow, S., 'Powder to the People', Sydney Morning Herald, 7 June 2008, http://www.smh.com.au/news/ski/powder-to-the-people.html, (accessed 3 July 2008).

Clancy, D., 'Week 3: Education in Australia' [lecture notes], Foundations of Teaching AEB1010, Melbourne, Victoria University, delivered 2 September 2010, http://webct.vu.edu.au/lc201053.pdf, (accessed 16 October 2010).

Collins English Dictionary: Complete and Unabridged, 6th edn., Glasgow, UK, HarperCollins, 2003.

Death Debate: Should Euthanasia be Legalised? [online video], Presenter B. Dutt, Mumbai, India, NDTV, 2007, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_FOwchgglc, (accessed 12 January 2012).

Flannery, T., Now or Never: A Sustainable Future for Australia?, Melbourne, VIC, Black Inc., 2008a.

Flannery, T., The Ethics of Climate Change: Is the Future Green?, Melbourne, VIC , Scholarly Press, 2008b.

James Hardie Industries NV v Australian Securities and Investments Commission (2010) 274 ALR 85.

Kozicz, G., 'Architecture of the Empty Shells of Nyarma', Discoveries in Western Tibet and the Western Himalayas: Essays on History, Literature, Archaeology and Art: PIATS 2003, Tibetan Studies, Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 38-47.

McKenzie-Mohr, D. et al., Social Marketing to Protect the Environment, Thousand Oaks, CA, SAGE Publications, 2012.

Moore, K.R., 'Was Pythagoras Ever Really in Sparta?', Rosetta, no. 6, Spring 2009, pp. 1-14, http://www.rosetta.bham.ac.uk, (accessed 10 September 2010).

Pearman, G.I., 'Climate Change', in Goldie, J., Douglas, B., and Furnass, B. (eds.), In Search of Sustainability, Collingwood, VIC, CSIRO Publishing, 2004, pp. 93-108.

The Red Badge of Courage [dvd], Director J. Huston, Burbank, CA, MGM, 1951.

Spencer, M. et al., 'Analyzing the Order of Items in Manuscripts of "the Canterbury Tales"', Computers and the Humanities, vol. 37, no. 1, 2003, pp. 97-109.

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

Toffoletti, K., 'How is Gender-based Violence Covered in the Sporting News?: An Account of the Australian Football League Sex Scandal', Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 30, no. 5, 2007, pp. 420-44.

Wilson, J., 'In Defence of the Superficial', The Age, 26 September 2009, A2, p. 23.

Separating Sources

Differences Between Primary and Secondary Sources

Some teachers prefer your Reference List to be divided into Primary and Secondary Sources.

Primary Sources

A Primary Source is an original work or document, i.e. the raw material or first-hand information used in research. Primary sources include historical and legal documents, archival material, eyewitness accounts, autobiographies, diaries, letters, photographs, novels, poems, plays, films, newsreels, statistical data and original research published in a journal article or book, or produced as a thesis.

Secondary Sources

A Secondary Source is something written about a primary source. Secondary sources include comments on, interpretations of, evaluations or discussions about the original material. Secondary source materials can be articles in newspapers or scholarly journals, documentaries, or books or chapters written about events or about original research.

Check with your teacher as to which style of Reference List they require.

Example: Separated Reference List

Reference List Example

Reference List

Primary Sources

Alexander, S., 'Peace March in Melbourne' [letter to W.R. Gibson], 1 November 1911, Professor W.R. Gibson Collection, University of Melbourne Archives, Melbourne, VIC, Box 2/1/1.

Australian Bureau of Statistics, Queensland Office, The Economic Status of Migrants in Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australian Govt. Pub. Service, 1990.

Chaucer, G., The Canterbury Tales, ed. F.N. Robinson, 2nd edn., London, UK, Oxford University Press, 1957.

Davison, R.M., 'Re: Removal of Union Signage' [email to H.S. Gardin], 1 August 2008, http:www.rdavidson.org.au/letters/2008/8/1.pdf, (accessed 3 March 2011).

Dewell, G., 'Theft, Simple Larceny' [proceedings of the Old Bailey], 16 February 1832, Ref. No. t18320216-60, http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/index.jsp, (accessed 20 February 2010).

James Hardie Industries NV v Australian Securities and Investments Commission (2010) 274 ALR 85.

Maloney, J.E., 'Recollections of Canberra' [interviewed by John Ferrell], 12 August 1991, John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, Curtin University, Perth, WA, JCMPL00897/3.

The Red Badge of Courage [dvd], Director J. Huston, Burbank, CA, MGM, 1951.

Ryan, R., 'Week 4: Nurse patient relationships & professional boundaries', [lecture recording], Frameworks for Nursing Practice HNB1101, Melbourne, Victoria University, delivered 23 March 2010, http://www.ryanvu.org/hnb1101/week4.mp3, (accessed 24 March 2010).>

Schultz, J.E., This Birth Place of Souls: The Civil War Nursing Diary of Harriet Eaton, Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 2010.

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

Secondary Sources

Beever, E.A. (ed.), Ecological Consequences of Climate Change, Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press, 2012.

Booth, B.D., Murphy, S.D., and Swanton, C.J., Invasive Plant Ecology in Natural and Agricultural Systems, 2nd edn., Cambridge, MA., CABI, 2011.

Bredow, S., 'Powder to the People', Sydney Morning Herald, 7 June 2008, http://www.smh.com.au/news/ski/powder-to-the-people.html, (accessed 3 July 2008).