Discipline of History - Essay Style Sheet
Whether typed / printed (preferably) or handwritten, essays should be on one side
only of A4 paper, with BIG margins to accommodate the marker's comments (min 2.5cm
all round, please). Type / print should be double-spaced. Observe the word limit.
Footnotes (preferably) or endnotes (only if you must) are used to indicate
the sources (books, articles, etc.) from which you have drawn
- your major concepts / ideas
- facts or bits of information which are not common knowledge
- all direct quotations
There are two major systems
- Conventional notes (foot or end) are keyed to the text by numbers places usually
at the end of the sentence containing the idea, quotation or fact referred to;
the same number identifies the relevant note at the bottom of the page or end
of your text. This note contains the following information: initials and family
name of author(s) and / or editor(s); title of book or article or chapter (and
title of journal / book in which article / chapter appears); place of publication
(books only); volume number (articles or multi-volume books); place (city) of
publication; page numbers (with or without the abbreviation p. or pp.) For successive
references to the same source use a shortened title (e.g. Gibbon, Decline and
Fall) - avoid ibid. and op.cit.
- Harvard system follows the idea, quotation, or fact referred to with round
brackets (parentheses) in which appear the author's familty name, the date (year)
of the article, book or chapter which is your course, and the page number. The
bibliography (see below) then gives a full list of all sources cited in your text.
Internet references provide (i) the full URL of the web site and page
used and (ii) a copy of the relevant page with your essay.
Bibliography
This listing of works consulted should show first primary sources (material contemporary
with and evidence for the topic of your essay), then secondary sources (later
writings by non-contemporaries, typically modern historians). List sources in
alphabetical order by author's family name, providing the following minimum information:
author's / editor's name(s) and initials; title (if book, italicised or underlined;
if chapter or article, in inverted commas, followed by book or journal title italicised
or underline); place (city) of publication (if book); year of publication.
Submitting your essay
Essays should be placed in the Essay Box outside the School of History &
Politics office (4th floor Napier Building) with a signed purple cover sheet attached
(supplies kept outside the History & Politics office). If you would like your
marked essay returned to you please attach a $1.45 stamp to a self-addressed A4
envelope.
And remember - if in doubt about any of the above, ask your tutor!
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