Test yourself on Harvard Referencing - Quiz

Instructions

 Test your knowledge of the Harvard Referencing.

 Before starting this quiz it is recommended that you complete all other
referencing activities, because this quiz will test your knowledge on:
o Recognising sources of information
o Organising your reference list
o Formatting citations with correct punctuation and spacing
o Identifying all citation elements
o Citing in-text
 This is a 11 question quiz.
 Circle only one response from the multiple choice answers provided.
 The answers are provided at the end of the quiz.

Questions

1. Look at this reference. What source of information is being referenced below?

Tiziani, A 2013, Havard’s nursing guide to drugs, 9th edn, Elsevier Australia,
Chatswood, NSW.

a) web page
b) book chapter
c) book
d) journal article

2. Look at this reference. What kind of material is being referenced?

Schirm, V 2013, ‘Quality of life’, in IM Lubkin & PD Larsen (eds), Chronic illness:
impact and interventions, 8th edn, Jones & Bartlett Learning, Burlington, MA, pp.
183-206.

a) book
b) book chapter
c) journal article
d) web page

3. Look at this reference. What kind of material is being referenced?

Tan, ACW, Emmerton, LM & Hattingh, HL 2012, ‘Issues with medication supply
and management in a rural community in Queensland’, Australian Journal of
Rural Health, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 138-143.
 a) book
b) book chapter
c) journal article
c) web page

4. Look at this reference. What kind of material is being referenced?

Better Health Channel 2012, Body image and diets, Better Health Channel,
viewed 28 September 2012,
<http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Body_image_an
d_diets?open>.

a) book
b) book chapter
c) journal article
d) web page

5. When you list your references at the end of your work, you should:
1. have separate lists for journals, books, websites
2. have one long list arranged alphabetically by author, and thereafter
chronologically, starting with the earliest date
3. have one long list for all your references arranged alphabetically by author

6. For a journal article reference what should be italicised?

a) the page numbers
b) the title of the article
c) journal name and volume
d) the journal name
e) the author’s name

7. Is this a correct in-text citation? True or False?

Thwaites (2007, p. 151) argued that ‘Psychoanalysis is…..’

a) True
b) False
8. Look at this reference. Is this a complete book reference?

Daly, J, Speedy, S & Jackson, D Contexts of nursing: an introduction, 4 th edn,

Elsevier Australia, Chatswood, NSW.

a) True
b) False

9. For a reference to a journal article, what should you put inside single quotation
marks?
a) the page numbers
b) the title of the article
c) the author’s name
d) the journal name

10. This is an incomplete reference. The edition and the place of publication are
missing. Choose the correctly punctuated format for the missing information from
the choices below.

McMurray, A & Clendon, J 2011, Community health and wellness: primary

healthcare in practice, edition Mosby Elsevier, place (ie. city)

a) 4th ed. Chatswood, NSW.

b) 4th edn, Chatswood, NSW
c) 4th edition, Chatswood, NSW.
d) 4th edn, Chatswood, NSW.

11. This is an incomplete reference. What is missing?

World Health Organization 2014, Tuberculosis (TB), World Health Organization,

http://www.who.int/topics/tuberculosis/en.
a) title
b) page numbers
c) date viewed
d) author