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  • Folder icon closed Folder open iconPreparing to get your message out
    • The message
    • The audience
    • Packaging
    • Drawing up a skeleton
  • Folder icon closed Folder open iconWriting to be read
    • How people read: print and online publications
    • Practical tips for achieving a plain, clear writing style
    • Plain language
    • Plain structure
    • The paragraph
    • Tools for effective writing
  • Folder icon closed Folder open iconStyle
    • UK English vs US English
    • Words to use and words to avoid
    • Nouns and Verbs
    • Capitalisation
    • Hyphens
    • Compound words
    • Singular and plural
    • Digital dialect
    • Numbers and dates
    • Abbreviations and acronyms
    • Countries and currencies
    • Signatures and names
    • Punctuation
  • Folder icon closed Folder open iconFormatting
    • Chapter titles and headings
    • Lists
    • Visuals: tables, graphs, diagrams
    • Table of contents
    • Headings
    • Quoted matter
    • Bold and italics
    • Footnotes
    • Other tools
  • Folder icon closed Folder open iconReferences and bibliographies
    • References
    • Bibliographies
    • Sample bibliographical entries
References and bibliographies

Sample bibliographical entries

(Note the indentation in each line and the differences in quotation marks!)

 Noe, R. et al, Human resource management: gaining a competitive advantage, 2nd edition, McGraw Hill, Boston, 1997.

 Scharpf, F.W. and Schmidt, V.A. (eds.), Welfare and work in the open economy, volume I: From vulnerability to competitiveness, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000.

Complete book

Part of a book

 Regini, M., ‘Social pacts in the European Commission: report on industrial relations in Europe’, in Biagi, M. (ed.), Towards a European model of industrial relations? – Building on the first report of the European Commission, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2001, p. 163.

 Abraham, K.G., ‘Restructuring the employment relationship: The growth of market-mediated work arrangements’, in Abraham, K.G, and McKersie R.B., New developments in the labor market: towards a new institutional paradigm, Harvill, Cambridge (Mass), 1990, p. 85.

Article in a periodical

 Traxler, F., ‘Collective bargaining in the OECD: developments, preconditions and effects’, European Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1998, pp. 207-26.

 Swank, D., ‘Funding the welfare state: Globalisation and the taxation of business in advanced market economies’, Political Studies, No. 46, 1998, pp. 671-92.

ETF or European Commission publication

 Masson J. R., European Training Foundation, Thirteen years of vocational education and training reform in the acceding and candidate countries, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 2003.

 European Commission, Employment in Europe 2001: recent trends and prospects, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 2001.

 European Commission, Increasing labour force participation and promoting active ageing, COM (2002) 9 final, Brussels, 2002.

Foreign language publication

 Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales, Plan de acción para el empleo del Reino de España, Madrid, 1998.

 Fagan, C., O’Reilly, J., and Rubery, J., ‘Le temps partiel au Pays-Bas, Allemagne et Royaume-Uni: un nouveau contract social entre les sexes?’ in R. Silvera (ed.), Les nouvelles frontières de l’égalité: hommes et femmes sur le marché du travail, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris, 1998. pp. 263–76.

 Weber, W., ‘Erfolgs- und Vermögensbeteiligung’ in Handwörterbuch des personalwesens, E. Gaugler and W. Weber (eds.), 2nd edition, Schäffer-Poeschel, Stuttgart, 1992.

Unpublished work or work in production

 Esping-Andersen, G., ‘Welfare states at the end of the century: the impact of labour market, family and demographic change’, Paper given at the OECD Conference ‘Beyond 2000: the New Social Policy Agenda’, 12–13 November 1996 (unpublished).

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