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Referencing manuscripts from the Fryer Library

What details to include when referencing manuscripts from the Fryer Library.

Basic information

If you are referencing Fryer Library manuscript material in your work, we suggest you include specific descriptive details of the material so that other researchers can easily locate it. Examples of what information to include are outlined below. Refer to the relevant manuscript description records in Fryer Library Manuscripts to help identify details to include.

If you are referencing UQ Archives material in your work, please contact the University Archivist (archives@uq.edu.au) to discuss requirements.

Some referencing styles give clear instructions on how to include manuscript details in the bibliography or reference list, but others do not. Check your specific referencing style guide for instructions on word order and punctuation.

If you are uncertain how to arrange these details to comply with your chosen referencing style, ask your lecturer, supervisor or editors to whom you are submitting your paper or article.

Manuscript items from collections of papers or records

Note: For material with Fryer Library reference codes beginning with UQFL.

Provide as complete a description as possible of the material and its location within a collection. Consider including all the following:

Details to include Where to find Example
  • Name of creator, and
  • Title or description of the item, and
  • Date of creation
Written on the item; or in the Library’s description record for the item; or create a general description yourself David Malouf, Letter to Y Smith, 29 November 2001
Name and reference code of the collection In the Library’s description record for the collection David Malouf Papers, UQFL163

As applicable, either

  • Series and/or item reference code details, or
  • Box, folder, item, and/or job number details
Written on the item; or in the Library’s description record for the collection Series H, Subseries 1
Full name of the Library   Fryer Library, The University of Queensland Library

Other examples

  • Thomas Keneally, ‘Research notes on armistice’, Thomas Keneally Papers, UQFL12, Box 1, Folder 1, Fryer Library, The University of Queensland Library
  • Judith Wright, Letter to James Devaney, 13 May 1962, James Devaney Papers, UQFL80, Series D, Item 29, Fryer Library, The University of Queensland Library
  • Karl Langer, Proposed layout, Civic Centre, Town of Kingaroy, August 1960, Karl Langer Papers, UQFL158, Job no. 1123a, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library
  • Brisbane Botanic Gardens, (undated), Fryer Library Postcard Collection, UQFL478, PC121, Fryer Library, The University of Queensland Library

Individual manuscript items

Note: For material with Fryer reference codes beginning with F, H, FVF, FGF, FTPF.

Provide a complete description of the item, or an item within the file, as found in the item's description record in Fryer Library Manuscripts:

  1. Author, title, date
  2. The reference code of the file/item
  3. The full name of the library: Fryer Library, The University of Queensland Library

Examples

  • Thomas Graham, Log book of H.M.S. Warspite, 1843-1845, F431, Fryer Library, The University of Queensland Library
  • Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, ‘Right Wrongs Write Yes for Aborigines on May 27’, 1967, FVF622, item 3, Fryer Library, The University of Queensland Library