Before using this guide check with your faculty, school or department for their specific referencing guidelines
Notes:
Follow these examples closely for all layout, punctuation, spacing and capitalisation.
Enter author's surname, followed by no more than 2 initials.
Give all authors' names and separate each by a comma and a space.
Enter all authors' names in the order in which they appear in the original source.
Only the first word of the book and/or chapter title, and words that normally begin with a capital letter, are capitalised.
Place of publication is the city where the book was published. Sometimes you may need to clarify further.
For book chapters abbreviate page numbers to p. eg p. 12-25. Where appropriate abbreviate like this: p. 122-8.
For electronic books include the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) in lower case, if it is given and place it after the URL (web address). If the URL ends with a forward slash / you need to add a full stop, otherwise don't add a full stop after a URL or DOI.
Abbreviate months to their first 3 letters.
For more detailed information go to: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/citingmedicine
Electronic book
| Format |
Author AA. Title of web page [Internet]. Place of publication: Sponsor of Website/Publisher; Year of publication [cited YYYY Mon DD]. Number of pages. Available from: URL doi: (if available) |
| Examples |
Ambulance Victoria (AU). Clinical practice guidelines ambulance and MICA paramedics [Internet]. Version 5.0.1 Doncaster (AU): Ambulance Victoria; 2021 [cited 2021 Jul 30]. 433 p. Available from: https://www.ambulance.vic.gov.au/paramedics/clinical-practice-guidelines/. Example with a DOI Ettinger S. Nutritional pathophysiology of obesity and its comorbidities: a case-study approach [Internet]. Amsterdam: Academic Press; 2017 [cited 2021 Aug 2]. 317 p. Available from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780128030134/nutritional-pathophysiology-of-obesity-and-its-comorbidities doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-803013-4.00010-7 |
| Format |
Author AA, Author BB. Title of the book [Internet]. Edition. Place of publication: Publisher; Year of publication. Chapter number, Chapter title; [cited YYYY Mon DD]. Location of part. Available from: URL doi: (if available) |
| Example |
Battista E. Crash course: pharmacology [Internet]. 4th ed. London: Elsevier Health Sciences; 2012. Chapter 5, Central nervous system; [cited 2019 Jan 7]. p. 69-98. Available from: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/monash/reader.action?docID=1723186&ppg=80 |
| Format |
Author AA, Author BB. Title of chapter. In: Editor AA, Editor BB, editors. Title of the book [Internet]. Place of publication: Publisher; Year of publication [cited YYYY Mon DD]. Location of part (either chapter number or pages). Available from: URL doi: (if available) |
| Example |
Halpen-Felsher BL, Morrell HE. Preventing and reducing tobacco use. In: Berlan ED, Bravender T, editors. Adolescent medicine today: a guide to caring for the adolescent patient [Internet]. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co.; c2012 [cited 2019 Nov 3]. Chapter 18. Available from: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/monash/reader.action?docID=846091 |
| Format |
Author AA. Title of book. Edition [if not first]. Place of publication: Publisher; Year of publication. Pagination. |
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Examples |
Carlson BM. Human embryology and developmental biology. 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby; 2009. 541 p. Ambulance Victoria. Ambulance Victoria clinical practice guidelines for ambulance and MICA paramedics. Doncaster (AU): Ambulance Victoria; 2014. 349 p. |
| Format |
Editor AA, Editor BB, editors. Title of book. Edition [if not first]. Place of publication: Publisher; Year of publication. Pagination. |
| Example |
Donnelly K, editor. Cancel culture and the Left's long march. Melbourne: Wilkinson Publishing; 2021. 182 p. |
| Format |
Author AA, Author BB. Title of book. Edition. Place of publication: Publisher; Year of publication. Chapter number, Chapter title; p. x - xx. |
| Example |
Lyons D. Lab rats: how Silicon Valley made work miserable for the rest of us. New York: Hachette; 2018. Chapter 2, The new oligarchs; p. 29-50. |
| Format |
Author AA, Author BB. Title of chapter. In: Editor AA, Editor BB, editors. Title of book. Edition. Place of publication: Publisher; Year of publication. p. [page numbers of chapter]. |
| Example |
Spicker P. Austerity and poverty. In: Bent G, editor. Handbook on austerity, populism and the welfare state. Cheltenham (UK): Edward Elgar Publishing; 2021. p. 142-153. |