Dissertation referencing

Dissertation referencing is one of the most important things that you need to do at the end of the research paper. From here the reader can locate the different sources that you have used in your undergraduate dissertation .

In the first of this writing we will talk about a standard referencing style, after that we will talk about one specific style. The common order may be described as under:
a) Regarding the single volume reference
1) Author’s name in normal order( and not beginning with the last name) followed by a comma;
2) Title of work, underlined to indicate italics;
3) Place and date of publication;
4) Pagination references (The page number).
Example
John Gassner, Masters of the Drama, New York: Dover Publications, Inc. 1954, p.315.
b) Regarding multi volume reference
1) Author’s name in the normal order;
2) Title of work, underlined to indicate italics;
3) Place and date of publication;
4) Number of volumes;
5) Pagination references( The page number)
c) Regarding works arranged alphabetically
For works arranged alphabetically such as encyclopedias and dictionaries, no pagination reference is usually needed. In such cases the order is illustrated as under:
Example 1
” Salamanca,” Encyclopedia Britannica, 14th Edition.
Example 2
” Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin” Dictionary of national biography.

But if there should be detailed reference to a long encyclopedia article, volume and pagination reference may be found necessary.
d) Regarding periodicals reference
1) Name of the author in normal order;
2) Title of article, in quotation marks;
3) Name of periodical, underlined to indicate italics;
4) Volume number;
5) Date of issuance;
6) Pagination.
e) Regarding anthologies and collections reference

Quotations from anthologies or collections of literary works must be acknowledged not only by the author, but also by the name of the collector.
f) Regarding second hand quotations reference
In such cases the documentation should be handled as follows:
1) Original author and date;
2) ” quoted or cited in,”;
3) Second author and work
g) Case of multiple authorship

If there are more than two authors and editors, then in the documentation the name of only the first is given and the multiple authorship is indicated by ‘ et al.’ or ‘and others’.
Subsequent references to the same work need not be so detailed as stated above. If there are several pages referred to at a stretch, the practice is to use often the page number, for example, pp. 190ff, which means page number 190 and the following pages; but only for page 190 and the following page ‘190f’.

In APA style referencing the list should have one and half inch left indent which is said to be the hanging indentation. There are also different rules in this system. There are also other styles like MLA or Harvard style, but the basic is same as we have discussed. It gets strengthened for PhD doctoral dissertation papers.

Dissertation referencing is done following all the conventions as laid by the standard organizations. Just contact us. Methodology chapter usually contains the maximum of referencing to analyze the text.