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UoA Style

UoA (University of Auckland) is a footnote referencing style requiring an in-text citation, a related footnote within the text, plus a related entry in a bibliography at the end of your document.

Book chapter - in-text citations & footnotes

In-text citations

Add a superscript number in your text to show when you are using another person's ideas or words. 

... as described by Cowan, this has only recently been identified.1

Footnote citations

The footnote contains information about the source you are citing, include the page number(s) of the page/paragraph within the item you are referring to. When citing the same source again, use the shorter footnote formats.

Footnote numbering: Footnotes are placed in numerical order at the bottom of the page. On a new page, footnote numbering continues. In a new chapter, footnote numbering starts from 1.

Book chapter title: The 'Book Chapter Title' is in normal font and title case (capitalise the first letter of each major word), with single quotation marks around it.

Book title: The Book Title is in italics and title case (capitalise the first letter of each major word). 

For more information on reference list format and style, see General information - basics of referencing

Full Footnote Format

Footnote Number. Author First Name(s) Last Name, 'Chapter Title', in Editor(s) First Name Last Name (ed.), Book Title. Place of Publication, Publisher, Date of Publication, pp.Page number.

Example

First reference

12. Simon F. Ortiz. 'The Language We Speak', in Nancy Buffington, Marvin Diogenes, and Clyde Moneyhun (eds.), Living Languages: Contexts for Reading and Writing. Upper Saddle River, NJ, Prentice Hall, 1997, pp.42.

Referring to the immediately preceding reference

13. Ibid., 55.

Subsequent references

21. Ortiz, 100.

Full footnote format

Footnote Number. First Author of the chapter First Name(s) Last Name and Second Author First Name(s) Last Name, 'Chapter Title', in Editor(s) First Name Last Name (ed.), Book Title. Place of Publication, Publisher, Date of Publication, pp.Page number.

Example

First Reference

1. Armon Tamatea and Nick Wilson, 'New Zealand Prison Violence: History, Prevalence, and Organisational Responses', in Armon J. Tamatea, Andrew J. Day, and David J. Cooke (eds.), Preventing Prison Violence: An Ecological Perspective. London, Routledge, 2023, pp.92.

Referring to the immediately preceding reference

2. Ibid., 95. 

Subsequent references 

25. Tamatea and Wilson, 101.

p>When there are three or more authors, list the first author followed by et al. (and others)

Full footnote format

Footnote Number. Author First Name(s) Last Name, 'Chapter Title', in Editor(s) First Name Last Name (ed.), Book Title. Place of Publication, Publisher, Date of Publication, pp.Page number.

Example

First Reference

1. Gaye Tyler-Merrick, et al., 'Early Childhood Education and Care in Aotearoa/New Zealand', in Susanne Garvis, Sivanes Phillipson, and Heidi Harju-Lukkainen (eds.), International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Care: Early Childhood Education in the 21st Century, Vol. 1. London, Routledge, 2018, pp.128.

Referring to the immediately preceding reference

2. Ibid., 130. 

Subsequent references 

25. Tyler-Merrick, et al., 139.

Book chapter - reference list

Book chapter title: The 'Book Chapter Title' is in normal font and title case (capitalise the first letter of each major word), with single quotation marks around it.

Book title: The Book Title is in italics and title case (capitalise the first letter of each major word). 

For more information on reference list format and style, see General information - basics of referencing

Format

Author of the Chapter Last Name, First name(s). 'Chapter Title', in Editor(s) First Name Last Name (ed.), Book Title. Place of Publication, Publisher, Date of Publication.

Example

Ortiz, Simon F. 'The Language We Speak', in Nancy Buffington, Marvin Diogenes, and Clyde Moneyhun (eds.), Living Languages: Contexts for Reading and Writing. Upper Saddle River, NJ, Prentice Hall, 1997.

Format 

First Author of the chapter Last Name, First Name(s) and Second Author Last Name, First name(s). 'Chapter Title', in Editor(s) First Name Last Name (ed.), Book Title. Place of Publication, Publisher, Date of Publication.

Example

Tamatea, Armon and Wilson, Nick. 'New Zealand Prison Violence: History, Prevalence, and Organisational Responses', in Armon J. Tamatea, Andrew J. Day, and David J. Cooke (eds.), Preventing Prison Violence: An Ecological Perspective. London, Routledge, 2023.

When there are three or more authors, list the first author followed by et al. (and others)

Format 

First Author of the Chapter Last Name, First name(s) et al., 'Chapter Title', in Editor(s) First Name Last Name (ed.), Book Title. Place of Publication, Publisher, Date of Publication.

Example

Tyler-Merrick, Gaye. et al., 'Early Childhood Education and Care in Aotearoa/New Zealand', in Susanne Garvis, Sivanes Phillipson, and Heidi Harju-Lukkainen (eds.), International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Care: Early Childhood Education in the 21st Century, Vol. 1. London, Routledge, 2018.