In-text Citation
Rule = (Author Year) OR Author (Year) OR (Author Year:page number)
Chores always had to be completed before my parents came home from their jobs (Boyd-Bowie 2024).
OR
Boyd-Bowie (2024) made sure that the kid’s chores were always finished before her parents came home from work.
OR
‘Our chores would be making sure the kitchen sink was clean and the floors swept before our parents came home from work to cook dinner’ (Boyd-Bowie 2024:76).
Reference List
Rule = Author AA (Year) ‘Title of chapter: subtitle of chapter’, in Editor E (ed) Title of book: subtitle of book, Name of Publisher, Place of Publication.
Boyd-Bowie J (2024) ‘Cultured pearl’, in Faulkner S (ed) Growing up Torres Strait Islander in Australia, Black Inc, Collingwood.
Henning M and Baker C (2021) ‘The subject as object: photography and the human body’, in Wells S (ed) Photography: a critical introduction, Routledge, Oxford.
Strickland K (2022) ‘Psychosocial care’, in Chang E and Johnson A (eds) Living with chronic illness and disability: principles for nursing practice, 4th edn, Elsevier, Chatswood.
In-text Citation
Rule = (Author Year) OR Author (Year) OR (Author Year:page number)
Without whistleblowers, the truth is often hidden (Burnside 2020).
OR
Burnside (2020) tells us that whistleblowers help to reveal hidden truths that people often don’t want the public to know.
OR
‘Whistleblowers let us know the truth” (Burnside 2020:73).
Reference List
Rule = Author AA (Year) ‘Title of chapter: subtitle of chapter’, in Editor E (ed) Title of book: subtitle of book, Name of Publisher, doi:number OR URL.
Burnside J (2020) ‘The Wikileaks decade’ in Ruby F and Cronau P (eds) A secret Australia: revealed by the Wikileaks exposes, Monash University Publishing, https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=f296574e-1e83-3bf4-9ba2-98b5846016dc.
Kokavec A, Harte J and Ross S (2022) ‘Student support in rural medical education: what does evidence-based practice look like?’ in Francis AP and Carter M (eds) Mental health and higher education in Australia, Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8040-3.
A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a combination of letters and numbers to help identify electronic resources. The DOI is sometimes assigned to a book when it is published and is available electronically. If your book has a DOI, it is recommended to use it when referencing.
The DOI is usually located on the first page of the book, near the copyright notice. The DOI can sometimes be found on the library database landing page for the book.