Understanding your reading list

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Understanding your reading list
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Finding Books

• The main elements of a
• book reference are
• Author(s)
• Year
• Title
• Edition
• Publisher
• City
• Note the book title is in italics

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For example

• Thorne, K.S.
• 1994, Black Holes
• and Time Warps
• Einstein's
• Outrageous
• Legacy, Picador,
• London.

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Find books

• UTS Catalogue
• Search for books by
• Title
• or
• Author

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Chapter in an Edited Book
An edited book contains the work of many
authors. The main elements of an edited book
reference are Author(s) of chapter Year 'Title
of chapter' Editor (ed.) Title of Book
Publisher Place of publication page
numbers Note the title of the book is in italics
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For example
Deibert, R.J. 2003, Civil society networks in an
e-connected world in S. Coleman (ed.), The
E-Connected World Risks and Opportunities,
Canada-United Kingdom Colloquia Series, McGill
Queens University Press, Montreal, pp. 125-32.
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Find edited books

• UTS Catalogue
• Search for edited books by
• Title (of book not chapter)
• or
• Author (use the editors details as author)

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Finding Journal Articles

• To find an article, first identify the source
  the name
• of the journal or magazine or newspaper that the
• article comes from.

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• Journals can be published
• weekly, monthly,
• quarterly or annually
• References to journals
• contain information about
• the year, issue, volume
• Author(s) Year, 'Article Title', Journal Name,
  vol. Volume, no. Issue, pp. Pages.
• Note the journal title is in italics

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• For example
• Brumfiel, G. 2006, Decadel surveys waiting
  for the stars, Nature, vol. 443, no.7710,
  pp.386-390

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Find Journal Articles

• UTS Catalogue
• Search for Journal Articles by
• Journal Title

UTS may hold a Journal in print or via electronic
access. Once you find the journal you then look
for the article within it.
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Journal Record
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Online Tutorials

• How to do a Keyword search in the catalogue.
• How to find a journal in the catalogue.
• There are more Online Tutorials on the Library
  home page.