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Examples for articles:• J McCulloch, ‘Why frontier Queensland beat urbane Victoria to Women’sSuffrage’, Victorian Historical Journal, vol. 79, no. 2, 2008, pp 237-50 (AD)• McCulloch, D 2008, ‘Why frontier Queensland beat urbane Victoria to Women’sSuffrage’, Victorian Historical Journal, vol. 79, no. 2, pp 237-50 (DN)• McCulloch J. Why frontier Queensland beat urbane Victoria to Women’sSuffrage. Victorian Historical Journal 2008; 79(2): 237-50 (V)*Note: in the above examples initials were used instead of given names but full namescan be used.*Vancouver style does not use italics for titles of publications or quotation marks fortitles of articles.Basically the information used when items are cited include:Author(s) name(s)Title of article if applicableTitle of publicationPlace of publicationPublisher**Date (usually year)Edition statement (if applicable)Page numbers (if applicable)**A publisher is ‘a person or esp. a company that produces and distributes copies of abook, newspaper, etc. for sale’. A printer is ‘a person who prints books, magazines,advertising matter, etc’. vi The name of the publisher will normally be located on thetitle page or the reverse of the title page or occasionally listed at the back of the book.Some books also list the printer but the printer is not the publisher. In some cases theauthor may be the publisher if the book is self-published.ManuscriptsProvide the name of the author, title and date (where available) plus the name of thecollection where the manuscript is held when citing a manuscript.Example:• Milbourne, Margaret, The story of the life of Margaret Ellen Milbourne ofWarracknabeal and Ballarat, notes compiled from her diaries in 1982, RoyalHistorical Society of Victoria manuscript collection, Box 152-15, MS 000663• McLean, D C, The Colac-Alvie Railway, 1974, Royal Historical Society ofVictoria manuscript collection, Box 272-17, MS 001629Websites and electronic documentsGenerally information identifying the website or electronic document is provided asfor a paper based item followed by the date that the source was viewed and the url forthe source in diamond brackets.Example:• Royal Historical Society of Victoria, viewed 10 March 2010,• Guidelines for contributors of the Victorian Historical Journal, viewed 10 March2010 © Royal Historical Society of Victoria 2010 4
Abbreviations used in citation listsAbbreviations may be used to avoid repeating all the details again when a work iscited in a list more than once.ibid signifies reference to a previous work cited immediately before the new entryExample:1 McLean, Gavin. How to do local history. Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2007 p582 ibid, p57op.cit. refers the reader to a previously cited work8 McLean, Gavin. op.cit., p203Be careful if using ibid in footnotes until the complete article has been written as theplacement of footnotes can change if new text is inserted.In-text citationsCitations can also be used within the text instead of using footnotes, especially whenthere are only a few citations in the document.The name of the author, date and possibly page number can be provided in roundbrackets at the end of a sentence).Example:(McLean, 2006, p103)When the name of the author is mentioned within the sentence, only the date and pagenumbers, if required need to be included in the round brackets.Full details of the publication would need to be provided in a bibliography or list offurther reading.BibliographiesA bibliography can be a list of books, articles and other material referred to by anauthor in a publication. A bibliography may also include other source material on thesubject that may be of interest to a reader.Bibliographies are alphabetical lists arranged by the name of the author and thereforethe surname always comes first followed by the given name or initial(s). The style ofthe rest of the information in a bibliography follows the format of material in areference list.Bibliographies may also contain annotations, providing a brief summary of thecontent of an item or highlighting a section of the item that may be particularlyrelevant to the topic.Bibliographies may be one long list of items or a bibliography may consist of severalshorter lists divided by topic or types of publications. There may be a list of books onthe topic followed by a list of articles.When a bibliography provides a list of material not necessarily directly referred to inthe book it may be entitled ‘Further reading’.© Royal Historical Society of Victoria 2010 5
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