GUIDE TO

PREPARING A
REFERENCE LIST
Chicago Manual of Style 16
th
Edition
PART 1
Prepared by
FAN KOK KEONG
Preparing
a Reference List
Using the Chicago Manual of Style, 16
th
Edition
Click on the link below to access the CMS website:
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org.neptune.wou.edu.my/16/contents.html
You will need your LMS Username and Password to log in.
The extracts and examples in this Guide are sourced from this book
and the 16
th
edition of The Chicago Manual of Style.
Why do I need to cite the source of the
ideas or information in my essays?
What reference style must I use?
What is
Citation in Text (or In-text Citation)
and a Reference List?
Citation in Text (In-text Citation)
and Reference List
Example of Citation in text or In-text citation:
The purpose of in-text citation
is to briefly state the source of the information
But isnt the in-text citation (Cheeseman 2006) insufficient?
It provides just a surname and a date (year).
Citation in Text (In-text Citation)
and Reference List
The full details of the in-text citation (Cheeseman 2006)
is given in the Reference List at the end of your essay:
Citation in Text (In-text Citation)
and Reference List
Can you see the connection between the in-text citation here
and the detailed information here in the Reference List?
Citation in Text (In-text Citation)
and Reference List
More examples:
Refer to the Handbook for more examples
CITATION GUIDE
Acknowlegement:
The examples that follow are sourced from this guide.
It is available from the LMS.
Book: Single author
Author Year Title Place of
publication
Name of
publisher
Consumers
Association of
Penang
1986. Drugs and the Third
World: aminophenazone
and dipyrone: hazards and
marketing practices.
Penang: CAP.
Author Year Title Place of
publication
Name of
publisher
Consumers
Association of
Penang.
1986. Drugs and the Third
World: aminophenazone
and dipyrone: hazards and
marketing practices.
Penang: CAP.
Author Year Title Place of
publication
Name of
publisher
Consumers
Association of
Penang
1986. Drugs and the Third
World: aminophenazone
and dipyrone: hazards and
marketing practices.
Penang: CAP.
Author Year Title Place of
publication
Name of
publisher
Consumers
Association of
Penang
1986. Drugs and the Third
World: aminophenazone
and dipyrone: hazards
and marketing practices.
Penang: CAP.
Author Year Title Place of
publication
Name of
publisher
Consumers
Association of
Penang
1986. Drugs and the Third
World: aminophenazone
and dipyrone: hazards
and marketing practices.
Penang: CAP.
Put a full stop at the end of each part.
colon
Title in
italics
Write it out in full:
Consumers Association of Penang. 1986. Drugs and the Third World:
aminophenazone and dipyrone: hazards and marketing practices.
Penang: CAP
Book: Single author
Author Year Title Place of
publication
Name of
publisher
Neuman, W.
Lawrence.
2009. Social research methods:
qualitative and
quantitative approaches.
7
th
ed.
Boston: Pearson.
Put a full stop at the end of each part.
colon
Title in
italics
16
th
Edition of CMS:
Authors name
preferably written in
full
Book: Two authors or editors
Authors (or
editors)
Year Title Place of
publication
Name of
publisher
Dubofsky, David
A. and Thomas
W. Miller, Jr.
2003. Derivatives: valuation and
risk management.
New York: Oxford
University
Press.
16
th
Edition of CMS: Authors names preferably written in full
Extract from:
The Chicago Manual of Style 16
th
Edition
Book: Author with famous initials
Authors (or
editors)
Year Title Place of
publication
Name of
publisher
Rowling, J.K. 2003. Harry Potter and the
Order of the Phoenix.
New York: Scholastic.
Book: No authors
Authors (or
editors)
Year Title Place of
publication
Name of
publisher
Kamus Dewan. 2002. 2
nd
ed. Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa
dan Pustaka.
Book: No date of publication
Authors (or
editors)
Year Title Place of
publication
Name of
publisher
Al-Arabi, A. B. n.d. Ahkam al-Quran Cairo: Maktabah al-
Azhariyyah.
no
date
Book Titles
Authors Year Title Place of
publication
Name of
publisher
Study how the titles are written.
The names of the Authors, Year, Place of publication, Name of
publisher are not filled in. You should be able to fill in these by now.
Book: Multivolume work
Authors Year Title Place of
publication
Name of
publisher
Urbanism and urbanization. 4 vols.
Book: Thesis or Dissertation
Authors Year Title Place of
publication
Name of
publisher
The progress of education in
Malaysia after independence, Ph.D
diss., Universiti Malaya.
Note:
The title of an unpublished
document is not italicised
Book: Conference
Authors Year Title Place of
publication
Name of
publisher
Proceedings of 2
nd
GEGEM
Research Seminar, July 2-4, 2003.
Book: Organisation
Authors Year Title Place of
publication
Name of
publisher
Laporan tahunan 2001.
Book: Government Publication
Authors Year Title Place of
publication
Name of
publisher
Malaysias health: technical report
of the Director-General of Health,
Malaysia. KKM/Research
Report/04/96
Parts of a Book:
Article or chapter in a book
Authors Year Title Place of
publication
Name of
publisher
Explaining growth, poverty and
distribution in Indonesia, Malaysia
and Thailand. In Globalisation
Culture & Inequalities, edited by
Abdul Rahman Embong, 145-166.
Parts of a Book:
Conference seminar paper
Authors Year Title Place of
publication
Name of
publisher
Rational soil management in the
humid tropics. In Proceedings of the
12
th
Annual conference of the Asian
Society of Soil Scientists, 2002, 15-
21, edited by Santokh Singh and
Johann Singhaseri.
Journal Article
Authors Year Title Place of
publication
Name of
publisher
The behavior of financial analysts
during the Asian financial crisis in
Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia and
Thailand. Pacific-Basin Finance
Journal 9: 233-263.
Journal Article:
Anonymous article (Unknown author)
Authors Year Title Place of
publication
Name of
publisher
Anon. Biotechnology research at the
crossroad. Education Issues 55: 34-
36.
Newspaper Article:
Authors Year Title Place of
publication
Name of
publisher
Heritage buildings to house varsity.
New Straits Times. March 19: 30-31.
Electronic documents:
E-books
Authors Year Title Place of
publication
Name of
publisher
Sanchez,
Julio and
Maria P.
Canton.
2002. Java programming for engineers. Boca Raton,
Fla:
CRC Press.
Netlibrary e-
book.
Electronic documents:
More e-books
Electronic documents:
E-Journal from full-text database
http://www.wou.edu.my/library/finding_mydigitallibrary.aspx
Now prepare your own references.
Authors Year Title Place of
publication
Name of
publisher
Creating your own references is just a matter of
filling in the various columns in the tables given.
After that, write out the text, minus the table.
Continued in PART 2