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Guide to Bibliographic Conventions
3. Presenting bibliographical information at the end of your
essay/dissertation
Bibliographical information is presented in an alphabetically ordered list at the
end of your work (essay, dissertation), in accordance with the following specific
guidelines.
As a rule, you should keep the layout as clean as possible. Do not be tempted, for
example, to use the automatic bulleting facility in Word, or put names in bold, etc.
The cleaner the bibliography the easier it is for others to consult.
Case 1: Single-authored book
Upton, Carole-Anne (2000) Moving Target: Theatre translation and cultural
relocation, Manchester: St Jerome Publishing.
• Things to note: use of capitals is different in title and subtitle. Use of
italics for title of book.
Case 2: Book with more than one author
Hatim, Basil and Ian Mason (1997) The Translator as Communicator,
London and New York: Routledge.
• Things to note: order of first name and surname is not inverted for
second author.
Case 3: Book with one editor
Hermans, Theo (ed.) (2002) Cross-cultural Transgressions. Research
models in translation studies II: Historical and ideological issues,
Manchester: St Jerome.
Case 4: Book with more than one editor
Bowker, Lynne, Michael Cronin, Dorothy Kenny and Jennifer Pearson (eds)
(1998) Unity in Diversity: Current trends in translation studies,
Manchester: St Jerome.
• Things to note: ‘ed.’ has full stop to denote abbreviation but ‘eds’ does
not.
Case 5: Publication with non-English title
Helbig, Gerhard and Joachim Buscha (1988) Kurze deutsche Grammatik
für Ausländer [Short German Grammar for Foreigners], Leipzig: VEB
Verlag Enzyklopädie.
• Things to note: non-English title is glossed in square brackets.
Different conventions for capitalisation are applied for the foreign
language and for English.
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