Citation guide for Museum Studies

This is a short guide to citing references based on the MLA style. The list is not comprehensive but will give you an indication of the main reference styles.

A more comprehensive guide to the MLA style by Joseph Gibaldi, MLA style manual and guide to scholarly publishing. 2nd ed. New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1998 can be found in Fisher Reference 808.02 79 A.

Other citation styles may be found in the Quick Reference webpage.

Books

Pearce, Susan M. Museums, Objects, and Collections: A Cultural Study. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.

Bennet, Tony, Chilla Bulbeck, and Mark Finnane. Accessing the Past. Nathan, Qld.: Institute for Cultural Policy Studies, Division of Humanities, 1991.

Edited books

Pearce, Susan M, ed. Experiencing Material Culture in the Western World. London: Leicester University Press, 1997.

Karp, Ivan, and Steven D Lavine, eds. Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.

Chapters from books

McKay, Judith. "Exhibits of Tropical Australia." Colonial City Global City: Sydney's International Exhibition 1879. Eds. Peter Proudfoot, R Maguire and R Freestone. Sydney: Crossing Press, 2000. 118-27.

Anderson, Margaret, and Andrew Reeves. "Contested Identities: Museums and the Nation in Australia." Museums and the Making of "Ourselves": The Role of Objects in National Identity. Ed. Flora E S Kaplan. London: Leicester University Press, 1994. 32-49.

Journal articles

Cameron, Duncan F. "Pilgrim and the Shrine: The Icon and the Oracle: A Perspective on Museology for Tomorrow." Museum Management and Curatorship 14.1 (1995): 47-55.

Moore, M, et al. "Marriage of Architecture and Museology." Museum National 8.4 (1999): 3-16.

Theses

Ireland, Tracy. "An Artefact of Nation: Historical Archaeology, Heritage and Nationalism in Australia." Thesis (Ph. D.). Dept. of Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology, Faculty of Arts. University of Sydney, 2001.

Johnson, Sean Maurice. "Museum Climate Control in Historic Buildings: Alternative to Air-Conditioning." M. Sc.(Arch.)(Cons.). University of Sydney, 1995.

Electronic journal articles

If you have viewed a scanned image of the printed article, ie, in pdf format, treat the electronic article the same as a printed article. This way, you will be able to cite page numbers. If it is not a scanned image, cite it in the following way and refer to paragraph numbers rather than page numbers:

Hood, Adrienne, and Jacqueline Spafford. "Student-Constructed Web Sites for Research Projects: Is It Worth It?" vol 1 (1). Fall 1998. 41 pars. Electronic journal.Journal for MultiMedia History. Available: http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/vol1no1/websites.html. 3 February 2003.

Museum Management Project. "Choosing a Vacuum Cleaner for Use in Museum Collections." Conserv O Gram 1/6. August 1998. pdf file. National Park Service, United States. Available: http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/publications/conserveogram/01-06.pdf. 3 February 2003.

Websites

ICOM / UNESCO Information Centre. Bibliography (1970-2000) Museums: Building Community. 2001. HTML webpage. ICOM / UNESCO Information Centre. Available: http://icom.museum/bibliography2001.html. 3 February 2003.

Galleria degli Uffizi. Botticelli Room 10/14. January 30 1996. HTML webpage. Uffizi Gallery. Available: http://www.uffizi.firenze.it/Sale/salaE10.html. 3 February 2003.