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CDU Harvard Referencing: Books and eBooks

A guide to help you better understand CDU Harvard Referencing

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Citation Elements

Book/eBook

Author, AA & Author, BB Year of publication, Title of book, edition., Publisher.

Chapter in a Book

Chapter author Year of publication, ‘Chapter title’, in Book editor(s) (ed. or eds.), Book title, edition, Publisher, pp. chapter page numbers.

Important

  • Cite and reference eBooks in the same way as print, no URL required

 

 

Reference Examples

Single author

(Deegan 2020) or Deegan (2020)
Deegan, C 2020, Financial accounting, 9th edn., McGraw-Hill Australia.

Endnote Reference Type = Book

2 Authors

“...inhibitor of international business” (Mossis  & Oldroyd 2023, p. 60)

Mossis, S & Oldroyd, J 2023, International business adaptation, 3rd edn., John Wiley & Sons.

Include the author’s initials as they appear in the document, e.g. Shad Morris is Mossis, S

Endnote Reference Type = Book

3 or more authors

(Rankin et al. 2022)

Note: For ALL citations with 3+ authors, use the first author's surname followed by et al.

Rankin, M, Stanton, P, McGowan, S & Ferlauto, K 2022, Contemporary issues in accounting, 3rd edn., Wiley.

ALL authors are listed in the Reference list entry

(Stone et al. 2024)
Stone, RJ, Cox, C, Mihajla, G & Carpini, J 2024, Human resource management, 11th edn., Wiley.

Endnote Reference Type = Book

No author

…the book Employment the Professional Way (2000).

Note: Shorten the title, put it in italics and capitalise all main words.

Employment the professional way: A guide to understanding the Australian job search process for professionally qualified migrants 2000, Australian Multicultural Foundation.

Endnote Reference Type = Book

Organisation as book author

(Department of Industry, Innovation and Science et al. 2021)
Department of Industry, Innovation and Science, Department of Industry, Science and Resources, & Institute for Sustainable Futures 2021, Your home: Australia’s guide to environmentally sustainable homes, 6th edn., ACT Chief Minister’s Department.

Endnote Reference Type = Book (Add a comma after organisation name.)

Book: series

(Healey 2022)
Healey, J (ed.) 2022, Housing the homeless, Issues in Society, vol. 476, Spinney Press.

Endnote Reference Type = Edited Book

Edited Book

Chattopadhyay and Chawla (2025) state …
Chattopadhyay, S & Chawla, U (eds.) 2025, Sustainability in marketing practices: Strategies for industry 4.0, Taylor & Francis.

Endnote Reference Type = Edited Book

Book with volumes

… (Orr & Braithwaite 2024)
Orr, CM & Braithwaite A 2024, Rethinking women’s gender studies, vol. 2, Routledge.

Endnote Reference Type = Book

Chapter in an edited book or book series

(Kramer & Bosman 2024)

If author(s) are listed at the beginning of a chapter follow this format, otherwise reference as a book.

Kramer, B & Bosman, J 2024, ‘Recognition and rewards in academia- Recent trends in assessment’, in M Thunnissen& P Boselie (eds.), Talant management in higher education, Emerald Publishing , pp. 55-75.

Endnote Reference Type = Book section

Entry in a Dictionary or Encyclopedia

‘Business finance’ (2019, p. 14) is “…raising and managing”
‘Business finance’ 2019, Britannica academic, Encyclopaedia Britannica.
… company’s earnings are distributed to shareholders (‘Dividend’ 2016).
‘Dividend’ 2016, in J Law (ed.), A dictionary of business and management, Oxford University Press.

Endnote Reference Type = Book section

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