The Thursday before last I was introduced to the E-resources section of the UCS Wolsey portal via a lecture. the lecture also covered using Zotero to create bibliographies. As on any academic degree course, referencing the work of previous academics is a must to lend work credibility. Zotero allows a user to save pages into categories, the benefit being that Zotero automatically extracts information such as, author name, item type, publisher, date of publication etc, surrounding the book/article or film.
To underline this point, we were tasked to write a bibliography using the Harvard Formula which covers books, book contributions and journals. I've never written a Bibliography using the Harvard formula for referencing before, so it's likely I will make some mistakes. Please bear with me since this will be a learning experience.
Books
Harvard Formula for books: Author or Editor Surname, Initial., [Subsequent author(s) or editors] Year of publication. The full title of the book: italicised or underlined to indicate it is the title. Publisher: city of publication.
Gunter, B. 1998. The effects of video games on children : the myth unmasked. Sheffield Academic Press: Sheffield.
Poole, S. 2000. Trigger happy : the inner life of videogames. Fourth Estate: London.
Articles
Harvard Formula for journal articles: Author Surname, Initial., (subsequent author(s)), year of publication. The full title of the article without inverted commas. The Full title of the journal: italicised to indicate it is the title (volume and part if given and or Month, or season, or volume part number.
Miller, L, C. 2008. The video game industry and video game culture dichotomy: reconciling gaming culture norms with the anti-circumvention measures of the DMCA.(Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998).
Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal Mar 1, Vol. 16, Issue 3, p453.
V, D, G. 2009. Usefulness of Video Game Experience for Students Learning and Creating Digital 3-D. Visual Arts Research Jan 1, Vol. 35, Issue 2, p109-21, -87p.
Contributions
Harvard Formula for contributions: Author Surname, Initial., [Subsequent author(s)], year of publication. The full title of the article, without inverted commas. In Editor Surname, Initial., [Subsequent editor(s),] The full title of the containing work: italicised to indicate it is the title. City of publication: Publisher. page span of the work cited.
Pereira, J, 5/21 2004. Atari, Sega and Pac-Man Are Back in Retro Splendor. Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition Volume 243 Issue 100.
Mckelvey, D, R. Palfrey, R, T. 1992. An Experimental Study of the Centipede Game. Econometrica Jul 1, Vol. 60, Issue 4.
I experienced quite a lot of difficulty trying to find contributions to books and articles using One Search. Maybe I didn't use the correct search terms. This concludes my attempt at creating a bibliography using Zotero. Feedback would be amazingly helpful since I think I did bits of it wrong.
There doesn't seem to be anything amiss with the bibliographical entries posted here: it's clear what each item is and, with the information provided, the reader could easily retrieve any of the items cited from a library.
ReplyDeleteThe databases Sarah Robinson demonstrated are more useful for finding journal and magazine articles than for contributions to books. For these you'd be better off pulling a book of the shelf in the library and looking at the contents page.
A couple of examples of edited collections that you could look at include _The World of Warcraft Reader_ and _The Video Game Theory Reader_, both of which can be found in the UCS library.