When Credit is Due, Reference Your Sources in a Bibliography

There are many ways to correctly reference sources of information. A bibliography should use the same standard throughout. The following examples show how to correctly do this using Harvard-style referencing. There are also minor differences with the information required depending on what kind of source you are referencing, be it a book, contribution to a book or a journal article.


A book reference has the following structure:

Book-Author or Editor Surname,A. (date) The Full Title of the Book. City, Publisher.

eg.

Brathwaite B, Schreiber I. (2009) Challenges For Game Designers. Boston. Charles River Media



A reference to a contribution to a book is similar to a book reference but requires a bit more information. It first shows information on the individual article and then where it appears.
Here is the structure:

Author of Contribution Surname,A, (date) The Title Of The Contribution. In Book-Author or Editor Surname,A, The Full Title Of The Book . City, Publisher. pp.00-00.

eg.

Thorington. H (2007) "On Solitaire" In Harrigan P. and Wardrip-Fruin N. (ed) Second Person Role Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media
Cambridge, Massachusettes : The MIT Press, PP 125-127



And finally journal articles use the following structure:

Author-Surname,A., (date) The Title of the Article. The Full Title Of The Journal. Vol N (Part X) pp.00-00.

With E-Journals adding a Digital Object Identifier at the end.

eg

John Wiley & Sons Ltd. (2014) Generative Design Methods & The Exploration Of Worlds Of Formal Possibility. Architectural Design. Vol 84 (Issue 5) pp.25-31.  doi: 10.1002/ad. 1804