Ive been given a reading list – how can I tell which references are books and which are journals?
A typical book reference will appear as follows: Holt, J.(1982) How Children Fail .Rev. ed. New York: Perseus Books. The information that you are given here is the author, date of publication, title, edition, place of publication and publisher of the book. You can search by author and title on the Newton catalogue. A typical journal article reference will appear as follows: Thomas, Gary. (1998) The myth of rational research. British Educational Research Journal, 24 (2):141-161. The information you are given is the author of the article, the date of the publication, the article’s title and the title of the journal. The numbers at the end of the reference refer to the volume number of the journal, the number in brackets is the number of the particular issue and the final numbers are the pages of the article. To see whether the Faculty Library holds this journal, search the Newton catalogue for the journal’s title. FAQ no. 9 shows you how to do this.
A typical book reference will appear as follows: Holt, J.(1982) How Children Fail .Rev. ed. New York: Perseus Books. The information that you are given here is the author, date of publication, title, edition, place of publication and publisher of the book. You can search by author and title on the Newton catalogue. A typical journal article reference will appear as follows: Thomas, Gary. (1998) The myth of rational research. British Educational Research Journal, 24 (2):141-161. The information you are given is the author of the article, the date of the publication, the article’s title and the title of the journal. The numbers at the end of the reference refer to the volume number of the journal, the number in brackets is the number of the particular issue and the final numbers are the pages of the article. To see whether the Faculty Library holds this journal, search the Newton catalogue for the journal’s title. FAQ no. 9 shows you how to do this.
