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Composites Design and Manufacture (BEng) - MATS 324 Examples of how to cite the references in your reports. |
The School of Engineering Online Documentation includes Notes for Report Writing by David Grieve. For final year projects, the definitive documents are the BEng Honours Project Handbook by Ming Dai and the BSc Honours Project Handbook by Jeff Barlow. The required format for Student Projects is the Harvard Referencing system which is comprehensively described in Ian Nicholson in Harvard Referencing 3rd Edition (v.3.00).
For the books which I have edited, I suggested that the chapter authors might adopt the following formats, albeit that the books used numbered references. Although there may appear to be some redundant information in these formats, there is also an insurance against typing errors (and/or poor photocopies) corrupting the information to the extent that the item is irretrievable. Only the information in the right-hand column is needed (the left-hand column is simply for explanation).
Books
| Explanation | Example |
| Author, Title, Publisher, location, date. ISBN. |
A B Strong, Fundamentals of composites manufacturing, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Dearborn MI, 1989. ISBN 0-87263-358-6. |
Chapters in books
| Explanation | Example |
| Chapter author, Chapter title, Book editor/author: Book title, Publisher, location, date, chapter, pages. ISBN. |
L J Hart-Smith, Design of adhesively bonded joints, In F L Matthews (editor): Joining fibre-reinforced plastics, Elsevier Applied Science Publishers Ltd, London and New York, 1986, chapter 7, pages 271-311. ISBN 0-85166-019-4. |
Journal papers
| Explanation | Example |
| Author Title Journal, date, volume (part), pages. |
CM Leavey, MN James, J Summerscales and R Sutton, An introduction to wavelet transforms: a tutorial approach, Insight, May 2003, 45(5), 344-353. |
Conference papers
| Explanation | Example |
| Authors Title Conference organisers, location, date, (session), pages. Publisher, location, date. ISBN. |
E O Ibitolu and J Summerscales Acoustic emission source location in reinforced composites Preprints 2nd Int Conf Testing, Evaluation and Quality Control of Composites, Butterworths, Guildford, September 1987, Session 5, pages 128-133. Butterworth Scientific, Sevenoaks, 1987. ISBN 0-408-025-697. |
Reports
| Explanation | Example |
| Author Title Report source and number, site, date. Additional identifiers. Classification. |
P T Curtis CRAG test methods for the measurement of the engineering properties of reinforced plastics Royal Aerospace Establishment report RAE-TR-88-012, Farnborough UK, February 1988. DRIC BR-107250. Materials/Structures 218. [Unlimited] |
Internet sources
The minimum citation should be a full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) - not just the domain name, and the date accessed.