Reference list
A reference list must be provided at the end of your assessment task. Reference lists allow others to access your sources, so they must give full details of all the published sources used in the assignment must be given. The reference list must be double-spaced, with second and subsequent lines indented. The following provides an overview of common APA reference list conventions.
Books
- Book author(s) or editor
- Year of publication
- Book title (in italics)
- Publication information: place: publisher
Book, print version
E-books
For e-books in HTML format and sourced from RMIT University Library databases, use the name of the e-book collection (for example: ProQuest Ebook Central) instead of the place of publication.
Journal articles
- Article author(s)
- Date of publication
- Article title
- Journal title
- Volume number, issue number, page numbers
Journal article (print)
Rollo, I 2004, 'Understanding the role of exercise in health promotion', Nursing Times, vol. 100, no. 37, pp. 55-57.
E-journal
Meijssen, D, Wolf, M J, Koldewijn, K, van Baar, A & Kok, J 2011. 'Maternal psychological distress in the first two years after very preterm birth and early intervention. Early child development and care', vol. 181, no. 1, pp.1-11.
Websites
Ensure that any websites cited are appropriate for academic purposes and not general sources of information. The convention for citing websites in a reference list is to provide the same details as for a non-electronic publication and include the URL as the place of publication.
The convention for citing websites in a reference list is a follows:
- Author(s) / organisation's name
- Date last modified (if there is no date, n.d. can be used)
- Title of page
- Date viewed
- Website URL
Beyond Blue 2009, What is depression?, viewed 1 May 2010, <http://www.beyondblue.org.au/index.aspx?link_id=89>.
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