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UniSQ Oxford Referencing Guide

Oxford referencing style for UniSQ

Edited book

Edited book, chapter in an edited book

  • Note page number(s) are not required when referring to an edited book in it's entirety.
  • Use page numbers when referring to a specific points authors or editors are making. See the chapter example below for an example of where specific information is cited and page numbers are required.

Standard formatting: 

Footnote

Author First and Last Name, Title of Book: Subtitle, edition number, City, Publisher, year, page number.

Bibliographic citation

Author Last Name, First Name. Title of Book: Subtitle, edition number, City: Publisher, year, page range.

 

Book - edited (referring to book only)

Reference Example
Footnote A. G. Hopkins (ed.), Globalization in World History, London, Pimlico, 2002.                       
Bibliographic citation

Hopkins, A. G. (ed.). Globalization in World History. London: Pimlico, 2002.

Book - chapter in an edited book

Reference Example
Footnote Amira K. Bennison, ‘Universalism and Western Globalization’, in A. G. Hopkins (ed.), Globalization in World History, London, Pimlico, 2002, p. 78.
Bibliographic citation

Bennison, Amira K. ‘Universalism and Western Globalization’, in A. G. Hopkins (ed.), Globalization in World History. London: Pimlico, 2002, pp. 74–97.

Book -chapter in an edited book, 2 or more editors

Reference Example
Footnote Saima Nasar, ‘Commonwealth Communities-Immigration and Racial Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain’, in Saul Dubow and Richard Drayton (eds), Commonwealth History in the Twenty-First Century, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, p. 118.
Bibliographic citation

Nasar, Saima. ‘Commonwealth Communities-Immigration and Racial Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain’, in Saul Dubow and Richard Drayton (eds), Commonwealth History in the Twenty-First Century. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 101–122.