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1. Book

Items for inclusion in reference section:o Name of author(s) (surname followed by initials)

o Year of publication (in brackets)

o

Title of publication (in italics or underlined if hand written)o Edition number (if not first edition)

o Publisher 

o Place of publication

e.g. Leggett, J., Owen, M. and Brown, G. (2000) The carbon war: global warming and theend of the oil era. 2nd edition. Penguin, London UK.

Items for inclusion in text (all in brackets):o Surname of author(s)

o Year of publication

e.g. (Leggett et al ., 2000)

2. Chapter/section contributed by (an) individual author(s) in an edited book

Items for inclusion in reference section:o Author(s) of the chapter/section (surname followed by initials)

o Year of publication (in brackets)

o Title of chapter/section followed by 'In:'

o Title of book (in italics or underlined if hand written)

o Edition number (if not first edition)

o Editor(s) of book, if editor(s) put 'ed(s).' after the name (in brackets)o Page number(s) of chapter/section (abbreviated to p. or pp. for plural)

o Publisher 

o Place of publication

e.g. Brennan, A. A. (1993) Environmental decision making. In: Environmental dilemmas:ethics and decisions (Berry, R. J. ed.) pp. 1-19, Chapman & Hall, London UK.

Items for inclusion in text (all in brackets):o Surname of author(s)

o Year of publication

e.g. (Brennan, 1993)

3. Journal articles 

Items for inclusion in reference section:o Name of author(s) (surname followed by initials)

o Year of publication (in brackets)

o Title of article

o Title of journal (in italics or underlined if hand written)

o Volume number (embolded or underlined if hand written)

o Part/issue number (in brackets)

o Page number(s) of article

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e.g. Ledwith, S. and Manfredi, S. (2000) Balancing gender in higher education - a study of the experience of senior women in a 'new' UK university. European Journal of WomensStudies: 7 (1), 7-33

Items for inclusion in text (all in brackets):o Surname of author(s)

o Year of publication

e.g. (Ledwith and Manfredi, 2000)

4. URLs (Uniform Resource Locators; or Web address) should be formatted as follows:

Items for inclusion in reference section:Name of author(s) (surname followed by initials; if unknown use Anon) Year of latest updateWeb page title, followed by ‘at’

URL (underlined),institution,date visited

e.g. Anon (2003) Biochemical Society Newsletter Homepage, athttp://www.biochemsoc.org.uk/whatsnew.htm, Biochemical Society UK, visited 12 March2003.

Items for inclusion in text (all in brackets):o Surname of author(s)

o Year of latest update

e.g. (Anon, 2003)