Exercise 1: Choose the right answer

A) You are building a reference for Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot.
First, you must cite the author. Tick the appropriate option from the list below.

1) T.S. Eliot
2) T.S. Eliot
3) Eliot, T.S.

B) The next piece of information is the year of publication. Again, select the correct
format to use.

1) (1953)
2) 1953
3) [1953]

C) Now select the correct format for the title of the work referenced

1) Old Possum's book of practical cats

2) Old Possum's book of practical cats.
3) Old Possum's book of practical cats.

D) In this example, you are referencing a second edition, and this must be noted. Select
the correct format for the edition details.

1) Second Edition
2) 2nd ed.
3) 2nd edition

E) Finally, the place of publication and the publisher details need to be added.

1) London, Faber and Faber.

2) Faber and Faber, London.
3) London: Faber and Faber.
Exercise 2: Arrange in the right order

A) Book Referencing:

Author: Pope, J.

Place of Publication: London:

Publisher: Franklin Watts.

Title: Taking care of your cat

Publication Date: (1986)

Answer:

B) Journal Referencing:

Journal Name: La revue de medecine interne.

Year of Publication: (1999)

Issue Number: 10

Author: Geffray, L.

Page Number: 888-901.

Volume Number: 20

Title of the Article: Infections associated with pets

Answer:
 C)

San Diego: Academic Press

Lewis, J.S. 1997.

Physics and Chemistry of the Solar System.

Answer:

D)

Smith, J. 1980. The instruments of Hungarian folk dance music.

London: Edward Arnold, pp. 46-59.

Folk music of Eastern Europe.

In: Jones, R. and Green, D. eds.

Answer:

E)

71(3), pp. 245-260.

Journal of Environmental Management

Feasibility versus sustainability in urban water management.

Starkl, M. and Brunner, N. 2004.

Answer:
 F)

2004. Towards the sociology of organizational space.

http://www.socresonline.org.uk/9/1/halford.html

[Online] 9(1). Available at: 

[Accessed: 10th June 2004].

Halford, S. 2004.

Sociological Research Online

Answer:
Exercise 3: Fill Up the Blanks

A)

Although [a] notes that it is uncertain when cats first become domesticated, the proliferation of
advice on cat care [b,c] demonstrates how close the relationship between cat and human has
become.

The information sources for [a] are:

a) Clutton-Brock, J. (1981) Domesticated animals from early times. London: Heinemann.

b) Evans, M. (1992) How to look after your pet kitten. London: Dorling Kindersley.
c) Pope, J. (1986) Taking care of your cat. London: Franklin Watts.

Tick the correct style of citation to replace [a] in the passage above:

 Clutton-Brock
 Clutton-Brock (1981)
 Clutton-Brock, 1981
 (Clutton-Brock, 1981)

Now tick the correct style of citation to replace [b, c] in the passage.

 Evans (1992), Pope (1986)

 (Evans (1992); Pope (1986))
 (Evans, 1992; Pope, 1986)
 Evans, 1992; Pope, 1986
 B)

Although pets can be a source of both infection [b][c] and allergenic reaction [a], [d] believes

there are significant psychological benefits to keeping a dog or cat.

You know the information sources are:

[a] Al-Dawood, K. (2000) Epidemiology of bronchial asthma among schoolboys in Al-Khobar

City, Saudi Arabia: Cross-sectional study. Croatian medical journal. 41(4), 437-441.
[b] Geffray, L. (1999) Infections associated with pets. La revue de medicine interne. 20(10),
888-901.
[c] Morrison, G. (2001) Zoonotic infections from pets - understanding the risks and
treatment. Postgraduate medicine. 110(1), 24.
[d] Sable, P. (1995) Pets, attachment, and well-being across the life-cycle. Social work. 40(3),
334-341.

Please tick the correct citation to replace [a] in the sentence above:

 (Al-Dawood, 2000)
 Al-Dawood, 2000
 (Al-Dawood 2000)

Please tick the correct citation to replace [b] [c] in the sentence above:

 Geffray (1999), Morrison (2001)

 (Geffray(1999); Morrison(2001))
 (Geffray, 1999; Morrison, 2001)

Please tick the correct citation to replace [d] in the sentence above:

 Sable, 1981
 Sable (1981)
 (Sable, 1981)
Exercise 4: Referencing with 2 authors

???????? (1985) The complete book of cat health. London: Macmillan.

The reference is almost complete. Please select the correct format for the authors' details:

 William, K. and E. Randolph.

 William, K. and Randolph, E.
 William, K., Randolph, E.
 William, K. et al.
 William and Randolph

Exercise 5: Referencing with corporate authors

You have been asked to research pet ownership and have found some information in a Mintel
market report. You need to include a reference to the report in your reference list.

The reference is almost complete:

???????? (2002) Cat and dog food: Market intelligence, April 2002. London: Mintel.

Select the correct option to complete the report from the list below:

 M.I.G. Ltd.
 Mintel International Group Ltd. (M.I.G. Ltd.)
 Mintel International Group Ltd.
Exercise 6: Fill in the missing in-text referencing component with the help of the detailed
references provided below:

According to the Environmental Agency , in 20 years time there will be 33

percent more vehicles on our roads. There is conclusive evidence that road transport has a major

impact on the environment. Traffic is responsible for 22 percent of the UK’s carbon dioxide

output (Foley and Fergusson and emits significant amounts of other

significant air polluting gases such as carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide

1999).

Cairns p. 75) argues that although "fuel and vehicle developments have

made a huge difference to local air quality", measures to reduce traffic will also be required if the

Government is to achieve its targets on air quality. One such measure is congestion charging

which, according to a recent study by  (2005), has been successful in

reducing vehicle emissions in London. 

References

Beevers, S.D. and Carslaw, D.C. 2005. The impact of congestion charging on vehicle emissions in
London. Atmospheric Environment 39(1), pp.1-5.

Cairns, S. 2003. Getting somewhere: tackling traffic emissions. Town and Country Planning 72(30), pp.
74-75.

Environment Agency. 2005. Reducing the environmental impacts of road and air transport: position
statement [Online]. Environment Agency. Available at:
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/aboutus/512398/289428/655143/?lang=_e [Accessed: 21 July
2005].

Foley, J. and Fergusson, M. 2003. Putting the brakes on climate change: a policy report on road
transport and climate change [Online]. London: IPPR. Available at:
http://www.ippr.org.uk/ecomm/files/PuttingtheBrakeson.pdf [Accessed: 21 July 2005].

Schwela, D. and Zali, O. 1999. Urban traffic pollution. London: Spon.

Exercise 7: Reference the below mentioned details using Harvard Referencing:

A book with the title: 'Occupational health and safety', published in Sydney in 2004 by McGraw-
Hill, with authors M. Stewart and F. Heyes. This is the second edition.

A book with the title: 'Internal control and corporate governance', with authors K. Adams, R.
Grose, D. Leeson and H. Hamilton, published in Frenchs Forest, NSW by Pearson Education
Australia in 2003.

An article by M. Scardamalia and C. Bereiter, called 'Schools as knowledge-building

organizations', published in 1999 in a book edited by D. Keating and C. Hertzman, called
'Today's children, tomorrow's society' in New York by Guilford as pages 274 to 289.

An article by J. R. Savery and T. M. Duffy, called 'Problem based learning: an instructional

model and its constructivist framework', published on pages 31 to 38 in the journal 'Educational
Technology', volume 35, number 5, in 1995.

An article called 'Integration and thematic teaching: integration to improve teaching and learning'
by S. Lipson, S. Valencia, K. Wixson and C. Peters, published in 1993 in the journal 'Language
Arts', volume 70, number 4, pages 252 to 263.

A Web page with the title 'Telstra conferencing - video overview', found at the address:
http://www.telstra.com.au/conferlink/videoconf.htm on 11 August 2004. No date on it, though
Mozilla gives a last modified date of 4 July 2004.
Answers:
Exercise 8: Highlight and correct the referencing errors in this extract from an essay
dealing with the role of museums in a digital world.

Since the dawn of civilization, the impulse to collect things to keep and display has been part of
human nature. So the concept of the museum evolved.

Drurie (1997, p. 30) remarks that museums have a ‘long history as repositories for things’ –
concrete physical objects remaining from the past, which museums have assumed an obligation
to collect, conserve, present and interpret for the benefit of the community, present and future.
So conscientiously have they embraced this obligation that they have come to be seen as
mausoleums – mere ‘storage spaces housing dusty glass cases filled with artifacts identified by
fading, curling labels’ (Mareovic, p. 71).

However, we now live in a digital world, a world in which technology has become part of every
aspect of life. Computers and the ‘Information Superhighway’ have been seized on by
Government and business as the solution to every problem (Lancaster & Reynolds, 1999). They
are being used everywhere as a quick technological fix, to ‘paper over other problems and create
the illusion that solutions are in hand’. In the new virtual world, some feel that traditional
museums will become obsolete or will be transformed into archives, as people search for
information rather than material, three-dimensional artifacts (Bowen et al, 1998).

This view is by no means universal, however and others believe that the demand for original
objects will only increase as web users recognize their value as important aspects of human
culture.

‘Alternatively, technology can help all of us see new relationships between objects, information,
the experience of others and our own response to the world' Teather, 1998.

It is the relationship and balance between the idea of a museum as a place for pure object
collections and the museum as an information provider, making use of digital technology(1997),
which must moderate any discussion of the place of museums in the virtual world.

It is the mission of museums to present collections in an entertaining and educational fashion.

The digital world can be a useful tool for furthering this mission as long as it is not used
indiscriminately and its users know what they want to achieve, whether they are achieving
desired outcomes and at what cost (Lancaster & Reynolds, 2002; Rentschler, 1999). The World
Wide Web offers very real cultural opportunities for museums, but also poses threats which must
be considered before decisions are made (Silvester, 2001).

References

Bowen, J., Bennett, J., Coh, H. & Johnson, J. 1998, ‘Virtual visits to virtual
museums’,Proceedings of Museums and the Web Conference, Toronto, Canada, 22-25 April
1998, viewed 12 Mar. 2001, Available from InfoTrac OneFile. A17976679.

Durie, B. 1997, ‘Places of memory’, New Scientist, 20-27 December.

Lancaster, G. & Reynolds, P. 1999, Introduction to marketing: a step-by-step guide to all the
tools of marketing, London.

Lancaster, G. & Reynolds, P. 2002, Marketing made simple, Elsevier Press, Oxford.

Mareovic, I. 1998, ‘Virtual museums: the challenge of globalisation’ in Museology and

globalisation, ed. L Young, University of Canberra Press, Canberra, 66-71.

Rentschler, R. Innovative arts marketing, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, NSW.

Silvester, R. 2001, Creating web-accessible databases: case studies for libraries, museums and
other nonprofits, Information Today, Medford, N.J.

Teather, L. 1998, A museum is a museum is a museum … or is it? Exploring museology and the
web, Archives and Museum Informatics, viewed 12 Mar. 2001,
<http://www.archimuse.com/nw98/papers/teather/teather_paper.html>.

HINT: There are 10 referencing errors