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Visual Arts Subject Guide

General format for books

FORMAT for NOTE:  the first line is indented.

               Author's given name family name, (comma) Title of Book (in italics, no comma except if edition number is included) edition number if relevant (opening bracket) (city of publication: (colon) publisher, (comma) year of publication), (closing bracket, then comma) page number/s. (full stop)

FORMAT for SHORTENED NOTE

              Author's Surname, (comma) Shortened Title, (in italics and comma) page number/s. (full stop)

FORMAT for BIBLIOGRAPHY:  first line is not indented, subsequent lines are indented.

Author's family name, (comma) Given name/s. (full stop) Title of Book. (in italics, then full stop) edition number if relevant (full stop). Place of publication: (colon) publisher, (comma) year of publication. (full stop)

Book with one author

NOTE

          6. Christina Maranci, A Survival Guide for Art History Students (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education, 2005),  55-57.

SHORTENED NOTE

         10. Maranci, A Survival Guide, 41.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Maranci, Christina. A Survival Guide for Art History Students. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education, 2005.

Book with two or three authors

NOTE

         6. Pam Meecham and Julie Sheldon, Modern Art: A Critical Introduction (London: Routledge, 2000), 128.

SHORTENED NOTE

         9. Meecham and Sheldon, Modern Art, 174.

BIBLIOGRAPHY  note only the first author has Family name first.

Meecham, Pam and Julie Sheldon. Modern Art: A Critical Introduction. London: Routledge, 2000.

Book with four or more authors

NOTE

         3. Paul Wood et al., Modernism in Dispute: Art Since the Forties (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994),  114-117.

SHORTENED NOTE

         6. Wood et al., Modernism in Dispute, 156.

BIBLIOGRAPHY   note only the first author has Family name first. Include all authors.

Wood, Paul, Francis Frascina, Jonathan Harris, and Charles Harrison. Modernism in Dispute: Art Since the Forties. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.

Edited book

NOTE

       1. John D’Agata, ed., The Making of the American Essay (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2016), 19–20.

SHORTENED NOTE

       8. D’Agata, American Essay, 48.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

D’Agata, John, ed. The Making of the American Essay. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2016.

Chapters in edited book

NOTE

        5. Rudi Laermans,  "Disciplining Thought vs Nimble Thinking: Possible Stakes of Teaching Theory, " in Teaching Art in the Neoliberal Realm, ed. Pascal Gielen & Paul De Bruyne (Amsterdam: Valiz, 2012), 160.

SHORTENED NOTE

       8. Laermans, "Disciplining Thought," 160.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Laermans, Rudi. "Disciplining Thought vs Nimble Thinking: Possible Stakes of Teaching Theory. " In Teaching Art in the Neoliberal Realm. edited 

       by Pascal Gielen & Paul De Bruyne. Amsterdam: Valiz, 2012.

Second hand authors

If information from one author is quoted by another author, and you are unable to find the book by the first author, give the details of both books.

Give the citation for the first (unavailable) author,  use "quoted in" or "cited in", then give the citation for the author that you actually read.

NOTE

        10. Alfred Haddon, Evolution in Art (London:1895) cited in Nigel Spivey How Art Made the World (London: BBC Books. 2005),128.

SHORTENED NOTE

        13. Haddon, Evolution in Art.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Haddon, Alfred. Evolution in Art. London:1895 cited in Nigel Spivey. How Art Made the World. London: BBC Books. 2005.

Chapter accessed from an online database

 HINT: Often the database provides a citation, which you can copy and paste. Check the punctuation as this sometimes varies.

NOTE

         7.   Deborah Ascher Barnstone, "A Nonideological Modernism: Breslau Artists in the 1920s," In Beyond the Bauhaus: Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918-33 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016), 165, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1gk088m.10.

SHORTENED NOTE

         11. Barnstone, Nonideological Modernism, 194.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Barnstone, Deborah Ascher. "A Nonideological Modernism: Breslau Artists in the 1920s." In Beyond the Bauhaus: Cultural Modernity in

           Breslau, 1918-33. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1gk088m.10.