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Dentistry Library Harvard (Author/Date) Reference List Style guide

Article citations | Book citations | Electronic Material | Multimedia Material

This Reference List style guide is based upon the AGPS style guide which was revised in 2002 by Snooks & co. It uses the Harvard author-date system for citing system for books, articles, anmd materials, including online and multimedia.

For more information, consult: Snooks & Co. 2002, Style manual for authors, editors and printers, 6th edn, John Wiley & Sons, Milton, Qld. A copy is held in the Dentistry Library Reference collection at 808.042 101 L.

Article citations

The basic format is as follows:

  1. Author name(s): Surname, then initials in uppercase.
  2. Year
  3. comma
  4. Title of the article in single quotes
  5. comma
  6. Journal title (in italics)
  7. comma
  8. Volume number, prefixed by vol.
  9. comma
  10. Issue (or part) number, prefixed by no.
  11. comma
  12. Page number(s), prefixed by a p.(single page) or pp.(range of pages)
  13. full-stop
Journal article

Phelan, C 2006, 'The Blue Book Oral Health Program: a collaborative partnership with statewide implications', Health Promotion Journal of Australia, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 109-13.

Newspaper article

Marr, D 2005, 'Once over lightly', Sydney Morning Herald, 23 June, p. 11.

Magazine Article

Brearley, D 2003, 'Sydney - For richer or poorer, for better or worse - A tale of eight cities: part 8' Weekend Australian Magazine, 20 September, p.1

Conference Paper

Kolker, JL, Burt, BA, Sohn, W & Ismail, AI 2005, 'Disparities in dental caries: are sugared beverages a factor?' paper presented to 83rd Annual Session International Association for Dental Research, Baltimore.

Published Proceedings

Brown, JC 1997, 'Computer identification of musical instruments using pattern recognition', 1997 Conference of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Cambridge, MA.

Book citations

The basic format is as follows:

  1. Name(s) of author(s), editor(s), (Surname, and initials), or the institution responsible for the work.
  2. ed(s) (if applicable)
  3. Year of publication.
  4. comma
  5. Title of publication. (in italics)
  6. comma
  7. Series title (if any)
  8. comma
  9. Edition if other than the first edition. Example: 5th edn
  10. comma
  11. Publisher
  12. comma
  13. Place of publication
  14. Full-stop
  15. Page numbers (if applicable)
One author

Alexander, RM 2000, Bones : the unity of form and function, Westview Press, Boulder, CO.

Two or more authors

Ross, MH & Pawlina, W 2006, Histology : a text and atlas with correlated cell and molecular biology, 5th edn, Lippincott Wiliams & Wilkins, Baltimore, MD.

Drake, RL, Mitchell, AWM, Vogl, W & Gray, H 2005, Gray's anatomy for students, Elsevier/Churchill Livingstone, Philadelphia.

Edited book

Klineberg, I & Jagger, RG (eds) 2004, Occlusion and clinical practice : an evidence-based approach, Wright, Edinburgh.

Book sponsored by an institution or corporation

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. & NHMRC National Breast Cancer Centre (Australia). 2006, Ovarian Cancer Program. 2006, Ovarian cancer in Australia : an overview, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Canberra.

Series

Imfeld, TN 1983, Identification of low caries risk dietary components, Monographs in oral science, Karger, Basel.

Chapter of a book to which a number of authors have contributed

Knox, J 2004, 'Growth and development', in I Klineberg & RG Jagger (eds), Occlusion and clinical practice : an evidence-based approach, Wright, Edinburgh

Electronic material

This could include sources from full text compact disk products, electronic journals or web-sites on the Internet.

The basic format is as follows:

  1. Author/s surname and initials
  2. Year of creation of the page
  3. comma
  4. title of the page or site (in italics)
  5. comma
  6. viewed
  7. The date of access
  8. The full URL ⟨in angle brackets⟩.
  9. Full stop

Example: Sly, IL 1998, Australian microbial resources, viewed 15th of May 2001 ⟨http://www.biosci.uq.edu.au/micro/academic/sly/lsly.pdf⟩.

Multimedia material - (videorecording, tape, computer program etc)

Formatting is as the same as a book, with the format of the item included.

Example: Normal development of the dentition 2000, videorecording, Berlin, Germany Quintessenz Verlag.

Example: What are we going to do with the money? 1997, television program, SBS Television, Sydney, 8 August.