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Footnoting print sources - the first time

Books

Include: author first name, author last name, title, place of publication, date of publication, and the page where quotation/information was found.

The footnote/endnote for the first time you cite a book would look like this:

1 Michael Welbourne, Understanding Teams. (French's Forest, New South Wales: Prentice Hall, 2001), p.5.

Note: If the place of publication is not well-known, as in this example, include the state or country of origin as well as the place.

If the book has more than one author the format would be:

Douglas Cohen, Henry Kilham and Kim Oates, [...]

Journal articles

Include: author's first name and initials of subsequent names and family name/surname, title of article (in single quotation marks), title of journal (underlined, with the first letter of all main words in capitals), volume and issue numbers, year of publication (in brackets), and page number(s).

The footnote/endnote for the first time you cite an article would look like this:

1 Carl Mazza, 'And then the world fell apart: the children of incarcerated fathers', Families in Society: the Journal of Contemporary Human Services, vol.83, no.5/6 (2002), pp.521-529.

The format for newspaper articles is similar, with the issue and volume numbers replaced by the day, month and year of publication, without commas, and in brackets.

Legislation

Include: title and date of Act, Jurisdiction i.e. Commonwealth or name of State (abbreviated), Section and subsection of Act.

The footnote/endnote for the first time you cite an Act would look like this:

1 Trade Practices Act 1975 (Cwlth) s.21 ss.2

Note: It is not necessary to include the web address if the Act has been retrieved online e.g. from Austlii.

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