Reference sources in your research
Some guidance from RAMM
By Curator of West Exe
If you contribute a piece of research to this site please reference your source material. There are various ways to do this. If you need guidance on how to quote sources please refer to the examples below. If you are already using an established system (for example the Harvard system) there is no need to change. You are welcome to use your prefered method.
1. Indicate the source by giving the author's name and the year of publication in brackets.
2. Include a bibliography at the end of the piece. Organise this alphabetically by the author's name, following the formatting as follows:
For books
· The author's or editor's name (or names)
· The year the book was published
· The title of the book
· If it is an edition other than the first
· The city the book was published in
· The name of the publisher
Example
Warlow, B. 2000 Shore Establishments of the Royal Navy (Second Edition) Liskeard, Maritime Books.
For unpublished material - eg essays/diaries
· Author's family name/surname
· Author's initial(s)
· Year of presentation in brackets
· Title in italics
· Unpublished
· Description (e.g. essay)
· Place of lodgement (i.e. which library)
Example
Drury, J.A. 1998 Representation: The Digital Photographic Image. Unpublished essay. University of Sussex
For online sources
Author's/Editor's SURNAME, INITIALS. Year Title [online]. (Edition)
Place of publication: Publisher (if ascertainable).
Available from: URL [Accessed Date]
Example
HOLLAND, M. 2004 Guide to citing Internet sources [online]. Poole, Bournemouth University. Available from: http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/library/using/guide_to_citing_internet_sourc.html [Accessed 4 November 2004]