UniSQ Oxford Referencing Guide

About UniSQ Oxford Referencing

Oxford is a refencing style that uses footnotes at the bottom of the page. This guide supports the use of Oxford at UniSQ.

All students enrolled in History courses must use the Oxford referencing style. 

Students enrolled in Visual Arts courses should check with their course co-ordinator regarding when to apply Oxford referencing style.

How to use this guide

• Get to know the basics of this style in How to apply Oxford referencing style
• Use the examples for different resource types to help create correctly formatted footnotes and bibliographic citations
• Use How to apply Oxford referencing and the Sample Bibliography to create a correctly formatted bibliography
• Contact your librarian for further support

Access print versions of this guide:

Version 1.1 6 May 2024 (Word) (pending)

Version 1.1 6 May 2024 (PDF) (pending)

Last updated: 6 May 2024

Prepared by UniSQ Library, School of Humanities & Communication, School of Creative Arts

Book an appointment

An appointment with a Librarian can help you to:

• find and evaluate specialist information for your discipline
• learn the correct referencing techniques.

Current UniSQ Students can request one, free specialist appointment per week. Appointments are 30 minutes in length and can be made up to two weeks in advance. 

To make an appointment, please view the availability and book an appointment with the Librarian for your discipline. 

Please bring any relevant coursework or drafts with you and check your student email regularly.