Section 06 Method for Bibliography Entries

After you have answered your last IAC for your assignment and cited alternative sources, you will need to have a separate last page with the heading “Bibliography”.

Every in-text citation must be fully referenced on the Bibliography entries page.

Below are the methods and examples of how your Bibliographies should look for the different sources.

Entries for Books:

Here follows the standard bibliography entry for books:

Blom R 2004. Handbook of Gestalt Play Therapy: practical guidelines for child therapists. Bloemfontein, Free-State, South Africa: Drufoma.

• Note that the author’s surname comes first, followed by the author’s initials.
• A full stop comes next followed by the full title of the book in italics ended by a full stop. Please note that after the main title a colon should be entered followed by the subtitle.
• Next comes the place of publication, the city, and then the state, or in some instances if only the country and city are named, put the city name first followed by the name of the country. A comma comes between the city name and state/province/country.
• Next comes a colon followed by the name of the company that printed the book, ending with a full stop.
• Indent the second line with one centimeter, (see example above).

More than one author:
Below is an example of a bibliography entry for a book with more than one author.
McMinn MR and Campbell CD 2007. Integrative Psychotherapy: Toward a Comprehensive Christian Approach. Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press.

If there are more than 2 authors do as follows;

Ratts MJ and Singh AA (et. all) 2016. Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies: Guidelines for the Counseling Profession: Hearing our Elders (vol. 44). Online article: https://doi.org/10.1002/jmcd.12035. Accessed from: 2024/08/27.

Edited book with volume:

Ratts MJ and Singh AA (et. all) 2016. Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies: Guidelines for the Counseling Profession: Hearing our Elders (vol. 44). Online article: https://doi.org/10.1002/jmcd.12035. Accessed from: 2024/08/27.

Edited book with different editions of a book:

Lee CC (ed.) 2018. Counselling for social justice (3rd ed.). USA: Library of Congress.
Reference: (Smith 2008:58-59).

Standard entries for e-books/electronic books:

Ratts MJ and Singh AA (et. all) 2016. Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies: Guidelines for the Counseling Profession: Hearing our Elders (vol. 44). https://doi.org/10.1002/jmcd.12035.

• In place of the publication details, one puts the website address, as illustrated above.
• Reference: (Smith 2008:60).

Entries for Journal articles:

Corrigan JD and Dell D (et. all) 1980. Counselling as a social influence process: A review. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 27(4), 395–441.

Reference (Smith 2008:61)

Entries for Internet sources:

Pryor J [2024]. Highlights of recent epistemology. Online article. Accessed from www.journals.uchicago.edu, 2024-06-21.

• It is important to note that the author of the article should still be mentioned in your entry. If there is no indication of the author of the internet article, apply the principle of putting the article’s title in place of the author.
• If there is no date for when the article was published on the website, put the year you accessed the article on the website in square brackets as in the example above.
• Note that the title of the article is not italicized.
• You need to indicate what type of internet source it is that you are referencing, like in the example above it is an online article, alternatively, it will be an online source.
• Lastly, you need to write “Accessed from” and give the website address followed by a comma of the full date that you accessed the website.

Reference: (Smith 2008:62-63).