The actual quote is in slightly smaller font and idented from the left hand margin to distinguish it from the surrounding text. In-text and reference list examples Books & eBooks Material Type In-Text Example ( Citation) Reference List Example Book: single author (Holt 1997) or Holt (1997) wrote that... Holt, DH 1997, Management principles and practices, Prentice-Hall, Sydney. Book: 2 or 3 authors (McCarthy, William & Pascale 1997) McCarthey, EJ, William, DP & Pascale, GQ 1997, Basic marketing, Irwin, Sydney. Book: more than 3 authors (Bond et al. 1996) Bond, WR, JT, Brown, KL & George, M 1996, Management of small firms, McGraw-Hill, Sydney. Book: no author (A history of Greece 1994) A history of Greece 1994, Irwin, Sydney. Book: editor (ed. 1998) Jones, MD (ed.) 1998, Management in Australia, Academic Press, London. Book: 2 or more editors (eds Bullinger & Warnecke 1985) Bullinger, HJ & Warnecke HJ (eds) 1985, Toward the factory of the future, Springer-Verlag, Berlin. Book: translator & author (trans. Smith 2006) Colorado, JA 2006, Economic theory in the Mexican context: recent developments on the ground, K Smith, Oxford University Press, Oxford. Book: organisation as author (Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics 2001) Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics 2001, Aquaculture development in Australia: a review of key economic issues, ABARE, Canberra. Book: chapter or article in edited book 'A number of disturbing intrude' (Milkman 1998, p. 25) Milkman, R 1998, 'The new American workplace:high road or low road?' in Workplaces of the future, eds P Thompson & C Warhurst, Macmillan Press, London, pp. 22-34. Book: edition other than first (Drafke 2009) Drafke, M 2009, The human side of organizations, 10th edn, Pearson/Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J. Book: reprint in a different form (Roget's thesaurus of English words and phrases 1987) Roget's thesarus of English words and phrases, 1987 (1852).
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Patent (Cookson 1985) Cookson, AH 1985, Particle trap for compressed gas insulated transmission systems, US Patent 4554399. Patent: Retrieved From a Database (Mccallum 2008) Mccallum, JM (2008). Method for and composition of excipient suitable for use in herbal formulations and formulations derived therefrom, Australian Patent AU 2008100919. Available from: SciFinder Scholar. [8 December 2008]. Standard: retrieved from a database (Standards Australia 2008) Standards Australia 2008, Personal floatation devices - General requirements, AS 4758.1-2008. Available from: Australian Standards. [1 December 2008]. Standard: published (Standards Zealand Standard 1994) Standards Australia 1994, Information processing - text and office systems - office document architecture (ODA) and interchange format: part 10: formal specifications, AS/NZS 3951.10:1994, Standards Australia, NSW. CMO Material Type In-Text Example Reference List Example CMO article (Jennings 1997) Jennings, P 1997, 'The performance and competitive advantage of small firms: a management perspective', International Small Business Journal, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 63-75. Available from: The University of Western Australia Library Course Materials Online. [1 September 2004]. Lecture Notes Material Type In-Text Example Reference List Example Lecture notes (Foster 2004) Foster, T 2004, Balance sheets, lecture notes distributed in Financial Accounting 101 at The University of Western Australia, Crawley on 2 November 2005. Course reader (Graber 2007) Graber, D 1997, 'Elections in the television age' in Mass media and American politics, CQ Press, Washington DC, p. 228, COMM2001 Communication and Mass Media Course Reader, Semester 2, 2012, University of Western Australia. Theses Material Type In-Text Example Reference List Example
Thesis: (Hos 2005) Hos, JP 2005, Mechanochemically synthesized nanomaterials for intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cell membranes. Ph.D thesis, University of Western Australia. Thesis: published (May 2007) May, B 2007, A survey of radial velocities in the zodiacal dust cloud. Bristol UK, Canopus Publishing. Thesis: retrieved from a database (Cincura 2012) Cincura, M 2012, Beyond profit-centric: transcendent business modelling. Ph.D thesis, Swinburne University of Technology. Available from: Trove. [12 August 2013]. Tables and figures Material Type In-Text Example Reference List Example All or part of a table, figure, or data used in text: from a print journal Note. From [or The data in column # are from] 'Evaluating the effectiveness of best management practices using dynamic modelling' (Ackerman & Stein 2008, p.634) Ackerman, D & Stein ED 2008. 'Evaluating the effectiveness of best management practices using dynamic modelling', Journal of Environmental Engineering, vol.134, no. 8, pp. 629-639. Add in-text citation to the text of the illustration’s caption. All or part of a table, figure or data used in text: from a book Note. From [or The data in column # are from] properties of fluids p. 113 (Assael 1998, p.70) Assael, M 1998, Thermophysical properties of fluids, Imperial College Press, London. Add in-text citation to the text of the illustration’s caption. All or part of a table, figure or data used Note. From [or The data in column # are from] Australian Bureau of Statistics 2009, International merchandise imports Australia, January 2009 (No. 5439.0). Available from: