Thursday, 25 October 2012

Bibliography - how to

This post is to cover bibliographies and their use to reference books, contributions to books and journal articles. All given examples shall be formatted using the Harvard referencing.

Referencing a Book is simple enough:  

Author, Initial (Year of Publication). Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher. 

For example:

Adams, E. (2010) Fundamentals of game design. New Riders.

Schell, J (2008) The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses. CRC Press

Referencing a Contribution to a book requires a bit more specificity as you'd expect:

Author, Initial (Year of Publication). Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher. Page number.

For example:

Bittanti, M (2003) "The Technoludic Film: Images of Videogames in Movies" In Nakatsu and Hoshino., Entertainment Computing: Technologies and Applications. Springer. 307-312


Rettberg, S. (2008) “Corporate Ideology in World of Warcraft”. In Corneliussen, H. & Rettberg, J.W. eds, Digital culture, play, and identity: a World of Warcraft reader, MIT Press. 19-39.



Then finally we have Journal articles, which slightly differ from the previous:

Author, Initial (Year of Publication). “Full title of the article in inverted commas”.The full title of the journal [volume + part if given and/or] Month, or Season, or volume/part number.

For example:

Keighron, P. (1993) “Video Diaries: What’s Up Doc?” Sight and Sound. October. 24-25.

Gonzalez et al. (2013) "Learning to Stand in the Other’s ShoesA Computer Video Game Experience of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict" Social Science Computer Review. 31. 236-243


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