Citing other Secondary Materials

This page will discuss encyclopaedias and newspapers. For complete coverage of how to cite secondary sources consult the AGLC3.

Encyclopeadias

A citation for a encyclopaedia includes the following elements:

• Publisher
• Title of encyclopaedia - in italics
• Volume number - as in vol 3 (do not include if accessed electronically)
• Full date - date last updated, or, if that is not available, the date of retrieval
• Title number
• Name of title
• Chapter number
• Name of chapter
• Paragraph - in square brackets

Example:

Lawbook, The Laws of Australia, (at 1 January 2010) 1 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, '1.1 Constitutional Status' .

Newspaper Articles

A newspaper article citation should include:

• Author
• Article title - in single quotation marks
• Newspaper title - in italics
• Place of publication - in round brackets
• Full date
• Pinpoint.

If you have access the article from the online edition replace the page number with the article URL.

Example:

Susannah Moran, 'Stress Levels Build on Bench', The Australian (Australia), 1 February 2013, 25.

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