Essay Writing Help - Oxford Referencing

Oxford Referencing: An Overview

The Oxford Referencing System employs footnotes and a bibliography but you may also be required to provide a reference list and endnotes (a reference list differs from a bibliography because a reference list contains only works from which you have quoted and that appear in your footnotes, whereas a bibliography contains every work consulted.)

Footnotes are used throughout, identified by consecutive superscript numerals at the end of either a quote or the sentence including the quote. The first time you quote from a book use the title in full, after this, abbreviations may be used.

In Oxford Referencing, the basic format to cite a book in a bibliography and footnote is as follows:

Author - in the form of surname and initials followed by a comma
The full title in italics followed by a comma
The edition, if other than the first, followed by a comma
The name of the publisher followed by a comma
The place of publication followed by a comma
The year of publication followed by a full stop.

Thus, the citation of a book in Oxford would read like this:

Brown, J., Oxford Referencing, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008.

To cite journals in an Oxford bibliography, use the following format:

Edward, P., 'How to Reference', Referencing Today, vol. 4, no. 3, 2008, pp. 53-4.

That is, as for a book, inserting the title of the article before the title of journal, then the volume number, copy number, year of publication and page numbers.