Note number. Author Full Name, Title of Book: Subtitle, trans. Translator Full Name and ed. Editor Full Name (Location: Publisher, Year of publication), Pages.
1. Parker, The Parker Chronicle 832-900, ed. Albert Hugh Smith (Exeter: University of Exeter, 1980), 55.
2. Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, trans. and ed. G. H. McWilliam (London: Penguin Books, 1972), 132.
1. Parker, The Parker Chronicle, 55.
2. Boccaccio, The Decameron, 132.
Author Surname, First Name. Title of Book: Subtitle. Translated and edited by Full Name. Location: Publisher, Year of publication.
Parker. The Parker Chronicle. Edited by Albert Hugh Smith. Exeter: University of Exeter, 1980.
Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron. Translated and edited by G. H. McWilliam. London: Penguin Books, 1972.
Note number. Primary source Author Full Name, "Title" or short description of source in Title of Book: Subtitle, ed. Editor Full Name (Location: Publisher, Year of publication), Pages.
1. Giunta, son of Bonnaccorso of Florence, contract drawn up for the sale of the slave, Maimona, to Raimondo Barbiere, 11 May 1248, Genoa, in Medieval Trade in the Mediterranean World: Illustrative Documents, trans. and ed. Robert Sabatino Lopez, Irving Woodworth Raymond, and Olivia Remie Constable (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001), 116.
2. Giunta, son of Bonnaccorso of Florence, contract for the sale of the slave, Maimona, 116.
Primary source Author Surname, First Name. "Title" or short description of source. In Title of Book: Subtitle. Edited by Editor Full Name, Chapter Page Range. Location: Publisher, Year of publication.
Giunta, son of Bonnaccorso of Florence. Contract drawn up for the sale of the slave, Maimona, to Raimondo Barbiere, 11 May 1248, Genoa. In Medieval Trade in the Mediterranean World: Illustrative Documents. Translated and edited by Robert Sabatino Lopez, Irving Woodworth Raymond, and Olivia Remie Constable, 116. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.
Note number. Author Full Name, Title of Diary, Dates that entries span if not included in the title, ed. Editor Full Name (Location: Publisher, Year of publication), Pages.
Note number. Author Full Name to Recipient Full Name, Date of Letter, in Title of Collection, ed. Editor Full Name (Location: Publisher, Year of publication), Pages.
2. Thomas Larkham, The Diary of Thomas Larkham, 1647–1669, ed. Susan Hardman Moore (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2011), 13.
3. Larkham, 23.
2. John O’Neill to Thomas Jefferson, October 30, 1805, in To His Excellency Thomas Jefferson: Letters to a President, ed. Jack McLaughlin (New York: Avon Books, 1991), 60.
3. O’Neill to Jefferson, October 30, 1805, 61.
Author Surname, First Name. Title of Diary. Dates that entries span if not included in the title. Edited by Editor Full Name. Location: Publisher, Year of publication.
Author Surname, First Name to Recipient Full Name. Date of Letter. In Title of Collection. Edited by Editor Full Name. Location: Publisher, Year of publication.
Author Surname, First Name. Title of Collection. Edited by Editor Full Name. Location: Publisher, Year of publication.
Larkham, Thomas. The Diary of Thomas Larkham, 1647–1669. Edited by Susan Hardman Moore. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2011.
O'Neill, John. John O’Neill to Thomas Jefferson, October 30, 1805. In To His Excellency Thomas Jefferson: Letters to a President. Edited by Jack McLaughlin. New York: Avon Books, 1991.
Jefferson, Thomas. To His Excellency Thomas Jefferson: Letters to a President. Edited by Jack McLaughlin. New York: Avon Books, 1991.
Note number. Primary Source Author Full Name, Title of Book (Location: Publisher, Year of publication), Pages, quoted in Secondary Source Author Full Name, Title of Book (Location: Publisher, Year of publication), Pages.
1. Hastings Ismay, The Memoirs of General Lord Ismay (New York: Viking, 1960), 199, quoted in James Holland, The Battle of Britain (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2010), 335.
2. Ismay, Memoirs, quoted in Holland, The Battle of Britain, 335.
Secondary Source Author Surname, First Name. Title of Book. Location: Publisher, Year.
Holland, James. The Battle of Britain. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2010.
Note number. Author Full Name, "Title" or description of the specific document. Date of document, Title of website or database, URL.
1. Thomas Haddon, "Carrier Pigeons in War". January 9, 1946, War Cabinet, Ministry of Defence and Cabinet Office: Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee, Later Committee: Secretariat: Minutes (JIC(SEC)). Secretariat Minutes (1946) 2-312, Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War, CAB176/9, http://www.secretintelligencefiles.com.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/Content/swwf.cab176/0009/010?t0=0&q0=pigeon.
2. Haddon, "Carrier Pigeons in War", 25.
Paper Series (if available). Location (if available). Name of database. Document catalogue number. URL.
War Cabinet, Ministry of Defence and Cabinet Office: Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee, Later Committee: Secretariat: Minutes (JIC(SEC)). Secretariat Minutes (1946) 2–312, Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War, CAB176/9. http://www.secretintelligencefiles.com.
or if only one item from the collection is cited:
Haddon, Thomas. "Carrier Pigeons in War". 9 January 1946. War Cabinet, Ministry of Defence and Cabinet Office: Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee, later Committee: Secretariat: Minutes (JIC(SEC)). Secretariat Minutes (1946) 2–312, Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War, CAB176/9, http://www.secretintelligencefiles.com.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/Content/swwf.cab176/0009/010?t0=0&q0=pigeon.
Note number. Author Full Name, "Title of Source: Subtitle," Relevant Date, Name of Hosting Organisation. URL.
1. Aborigines Advancement League, "Aborigines Advancement League Newsletter," 1969, Reason In Revolt. https://www.reasoninrevolt.net.au/objects/htm/a000236.htm.
2. Aborigines Advancement League "Aborigines Advancement League Newsletter," 1969.
Author Surname, First Name. "Title of Source: Subtitle." Relevant Date. Name of Hosting Organisation. URL.
Aborigines Advancement League. "Aborigines Advancement League Newsletter." 1969. Reason In Revolt. https://www.reasoninrevolt.net.au/objects/htm/a000236.htm.
Note number. "Title" (if available) or description of the specific document, Name of the entity that drafted the document, Year drafted, Collection, Repository, Location.
1. Minutes of the Committee for Improving the Condition of the Free Blacks, Pennsylvania Abolition Society, 1790–1803, Papers of the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
8. Memorandum, “Concerning a Court of Arbitration,” n.d., Philander C. Knox Papers, Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress.
1. Minutes of the Committee for Improving the Condition of the Free Blacks, Pennsylvania Abolition Society, 1790–1803, Papers of the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (hereafter cited as Minutes, Pennsylvania Society).
2. Minutes, 15 April 1795, Pennsylvania Society.
The main element of the bibliography entry is usually the title of the collection in which the specific document may be found, or the repository that houses the collection.
Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery. Papers. Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
or if only one item from the collection is cited:
Minutes of the Committee for Improving the Condition of the Free Blacks, Pennsylvania Abolition Society, 1790–1803. Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery. Papers. Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.