Open University Referencing
It is an adaption of Harvard referencing style and can be used with most of the project reports.
Referencing a Book
- Author - in the form of surname and name/initials followed by a comma
- Publication date in brackets, followed by a full stop
- Title in italics followed by a comma
- Place of publication followed by a comma
- Publisher followed by a full stop.
Brown, J., (2008).Referencing Styles, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Referencing a Journal
- Author - in the form of surname and name/initials followed by a comma
- Publication date in brackets, followed by a comma
- Title of journal article in single quotation marks
- Title of journal in italics followed by a comma
- Volume and issue number followed by a comma
- Page numbers followed by a full stop
Brown, J.,(2008), 'OU Referencing', Referencing Styles, no. 2, pp. 33-49.
Referencing an electronic source
- Author - in the form of surname and name/initials followed by a comma
- Publication date in brackets, followed by a comma
- Title of document in italics followed by 'online' in square brackets followed by a comma
- Publisher followed by a comma
- URL
- Date accessed in brackets.
Taylor, John, (2008) OU Referencing [online], The Open University, (accessed 6 August 2008).
