20. Other

In this chapter:
Manuscripts
Your own previous assignment
Birth, death and marriage certificates
1. MANUSCRIPTS
  • If it is difficult to provide details about the location of a manuscript, be systematic.
In-text

(Author Surname Year, p. Page No.)

Example:

Mayan stone tools were found… (Abramiuk 2002, p. 45).

Reference

Author Surname, Author Initial Year, ‘Title’, in possession of the author/Possessor Name, Possessor Location.

Examples:

Abramiuk, M 2002, ‘A preliminary report on classic Maya ground stone tool exchange in and around the southern Maya mountains of Belize’, in possession of the author.

Adams, DE 1917, ‘My journey to Khartoum’, in possession of MA Adams, Adelaide.

Joyce, TA 1931, ‘Report of the British Museum expedition to British Honduras, 1931’, in possession of the Central Archives of the British Museum, London.

2. YOUR OWN PREVIOUS ASSIGNMENT
In-text

(Your Surname Year)

Example:

Smith (2018, p. 45) states that …

Reference

Your Surname, Initial Year, Title of assignment: subtitle if appropriate, unpublished manuscript, Unit Code: Name of Unit, Name of University, Location.

Example:

Smith, J 2018, Assignment 1, unpublished manuscript, MGT1000: Organisational behaviour and management, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba.

3. BIRTH, DEATH AND MARRIAGE CERTIFICATES

a) From repository that holds it

b) From another location, i.e. a subscription database

  • Description of source should be as accurate as possible so that the reader may locate the same copy you are citing. Common examples for ‘description of source’ include:
    • certified copy
    • digital download
    • digitised copy
    • index
    • user-generated tree
    • database entry
In-text

(‘Full name of person/s in certificate’ Year of Event)

Example:

a) James was born in Mulgrave (‘James Allister’ 1866).

b) … at Hackney St John (‘Owen Johnson and Elizabeth Raymen’ 1877).

Reference

‘Person’s Full Name’ Year of Event, Birth/death/marriage certificate of Person’s Full Name/s, Day Month Year of Event, Reference Number (Location of original document if different from where you obtained it), description of source, Location Information of Source.

Example:

a) ‘James Allister’ 1866, Birth certificate of James Allister, 27 January 1866, Reg. no. 16901/1866, digital download, Births, Deaths and Marriages, Victoria, Australia.

b) ‘Owen Johnson and Elizabeth Raymen’ 1877, Marriage certificate of Owen Johnson and Elizabeth Raymen, 11 February 1877, p78/jn1/085 (London Metropolitan Archives, UK), index, viewed 22 April 2019, <www.ancestry.com>.

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