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Referencing and citing resources

UOW referencing style guides

Students MUST refer to their faculty/school to determine the required referencing style AND comply with the Academic Integrity and Plagiarism Policy.

To determine the correct referencing style for your subject:

  1. Refer to the table of faculty/school preferred styles.
  2. If no style is listed, check with the subject lecturer/tutor.
  3. If no style is specified, use the UOW Author-Date (Harvard) Referencing Guide.

Arts

Education

Engineering
Health and Behavioural Sciences
Informatics
Law
Science
  • Refer to your Subject Outline and if no style is specified, use Harvard (Blackwell Author Services)

Other style guides

  • Footnoting
  • APA - University of Southern Queensland
  • CBE - Online! Citation Styles
  • Chicago - Online! Citation Styles
  • MLA - 'MLA 2009 Formatting and Style Guide' from Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
  • NHMRC - National Library of Medicine
  • Oxford - Learning Centre, University of NSW
  • Vancouver - Monash University

UOW print referencing resources

The Chicago Manual of Style 1993, 14th edn, University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 808.027/4
Garner, DL 1993, The Complete Guide to Citing Government Information Resources: A Manual for Writers & Librarians, rev. edn, Congressional Information Service, Bethesda, Maryland. 808.066/40
Harmon, C 2000, Using the Internet, Online Services & CD-ROMS for Writing Research and Term Papers, 2nd edn, Neal-Schuman, New York. 371.202812/1 
Li, X & Crane, N 1996, Electronic Styles, 2nd edn, Information Today, Medford, New Jersey. 808.027/6
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers 2009, 7th edn, Modern Language Association of America, New York. 808.02/34
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association 2001, 5th edn, American Psychological Association, Washington. 808.02/15
Stinson, B 1990, Citing Non-book Materials: A Guide for Researchers and Students, Macquarie University Library, North Ryde, NSW. 808.02/73
Style Manual for Authors, Editors and Printers 2002, 6th edn, John Wiley, Queensland.  808.02/117
Walker, JR 1998, The Columbia Guide to Online Style, Columbia University Press, New York. 808.027/7
Last reviewed: 4 March, 2013