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Writing your reference list Below is a guide to some of the main types of publications you will have to reference in your reference list. Referencing is tricky to get a handle on at first, but once you understand the conventions, it’s easy. There are two really important things to remember that may help you know when and how to reference. 1. The most important thing to remember about referencing is this is your way of acknowledging the person who’s done all the work and has written the resource you are using. If you’d spent months (sometimes years) working on an article you’d want people to acknowledge all your work, wouldn’t you? That’s why you cite the work in the text of your paper and then include the full reference at the end. 2. The second most important thing to think about when referencing is how can I show the person reading my work that I’ve found this amazing article or resource and help them to find it. If you use that as your starting point it will help you to remember what needs to go in your reference list. Reports: (even though it’s online, you reference it as a published report - you can generally tell if it’s a report because it will have ‘PDF’ at the end of the URL) World Health Organisation (2000). The World Health Report 2000 – Health Systems: Improving Performance. World Health Organisation: Geneva. An AIHW Reference: (the AIHW references are generally all reports (occasionally there work is only online, but not often), so we don’t need to include the URL – you could go to the library and borrow a printed copy) Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2012) Australia's Health 2012. Canberra: AIHW Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2014) Australia’s Health 2014. Canberra: AIHW. An ABS Publication (these are also reports, but they have a specific formatting style – the Cat No – is the equivalent to the volume for a journal) ABS (2013) Deaths, Australia, 2012. ABS cat. no. 3302.0.55.001. Canberra: ABS. ABS (2013) Disability, Ageing and Carers, Australia: Summary of Findings, 2012. ABS cat. no. 4430.0. Canberra: ABS A Book: (you need to identify the author, the name and where and by whom it was published) Baum, F (2008) The New Public Health (3rd Edition), OUP: South Melbourne. A Chapter from an Edited Book – (ie the chapter author is different from the editing author – so you acknowledge the chapter author first (they did the work) along with the title of their chapter (so we know where to look), then you acknowledge the editors (who’ve done lots of work pulling it all together) and the full title of the book so we know where to look) Belcher, H. (2014) ‘Power, politics, and health care’, in Germov, J. Second Opinion: An Introduction to Health Sociology (5th Edition). South Melbourne: Oxford University Press. Buse, K., Nicholas, M and Gillian, W (2012) ‘The health policy framework’, in Buse, K., Nicholas, M and Gillian, W. Making Health Policy. Open University Press: Maidenhead. A Journal Article (Like a report you don’t need to include the URL because most journals are available in hard copy in the library (online only – a relatively recent phenomena are also theoretically printable). You need to tell us the name of the author(s), the title of their article and then the title of the journal you found it in – you also include dates, pages, issues etc, as you can see below)

Baum, F., Laris, P., Fisher, M., Newman, L., MacDougall, C. (2013) ‘ “Never mind the logic, give me the numbers”: Former Australian health ministers’ perspectives on the social determinants of health;. Social Science & Medicine, 87, 138-146....