Examples for References/ Bibliography - Reg.

Dear Sir / Madam,

Greetings from ELT@I Tirupati Chapter. Thank you for your paper contributions.

In spite of our instructions/guidelines we are receiving papers without proper formatting. Particularly while giving Bibliographic/Reference details at the end, further some of them sent without any references. Some have sent papers without name and affiliation details.

We suppose it is easy to you to recheck your own single paper before sending it, but it is very tough for us to check hundreds of papers. Anyway we have to do it again.

• We request every one of you before sending your paper please check and confirm that your papers are with the required details. 
• Make sure that your paper has at least some references to add the flavour of research paper, otherwise it will become just an article.
• Please provide full publication details of the books referred as given in the examples. 
• Please make sure that you have provided your details such as name, designation, institution, place, email id and mobile number etc. 

According to MLA Handbook 7^th Edition reference should be given in the following format.

v  Author’s name last name first comma (,) first name last full stop (.) Title of the book in italics full stop (.) place of publication colon (:) name of the publisher comma (,) year of publication full stop (.) print full stop (.) with hanging indentation as shown in the examples.

References Example:

Johnson, K. Understanding Communication in Second Language Classrooms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Print.

Richards, J. K., and  T. S. Rodgers. Approaches and Methods in Teaching: A Description and Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Print.

v  If it is a paper from a journal title of the referred paper in the inverted commas and volume no/ issue no, year and month of publication and page numbers have to be given in the following format. 

References Example:

Singh, Raj Kumar. “Enhancing communication skills of students by integrating technology and task based approach to teaching”. The Journal of English Language Teaching (India). Vol. 52/3 August 2013: 24-27. Print.

Please make sure that your papers are free from plagiarism, authors must be responsible to the issues if any related to plagiarism. 

We hope all of you may cooperate with us for the success of our conference.