Study Methods
Writing an Assignment/Project Work
Format:
Introduction: Can include a question that the assignment seeks to address.
Body
Conclusion: Present the major ideas that the assignment has addressed.
Footnotes and Bibliography
One author:
FN: Benita Parry, Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique (London: Routledge, 2004), 234.
B: Parry, Benita. Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique. London: Routledge, 2004.
More than one author:
FN: Benita Parry and Daniel Perera, Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique (London: Routledge,
2004), 234.
B: Parry, Benita and Daniel Perera. Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique. London: Routledge,
2004.
More than three authors:
FN: Benita Parry, et al., Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique (London: Routledge, 2004), 234.
B: Parry, Benita, et al. Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique. London: Routledge, 2004.
Journal Article:
FN: Margaret S. Odell, “You Are What you Eat: Ezekiel and the Scroll,” Journal of Biblical Literature
117/2 (1998): 229.
B: Odell, Margaret S. “You Are What you Eat: Ezekiel and the Scroll.” Journal of Biblical Literature
117/2 (1998): 229-248.
Article in a Dictionary/Edited Book:
FN: John M. Monson, “The Temple of Solomon: Heart of Solomon,” in Zion, City of Our God, edited by
Richard S. Hess and Gordon J. Wenham (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999), 21.
B: Monson, John M. “The Temple of Solomon: Heart of Solomon.” In Zion, City of Our God. Edited by
Richard S. Hess and Gordon J. Wenham. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.
Translation of an Original Work
FN: Leonardo Boff, Ecclesiogenesis. The Base Communities Reinvent the Church, translated by Robert R.
Barr (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1986), 23-33.
B: Boff, Leonardo. Ecclesiogenesis. The Base Communities Reinvent the Church. Translated by Robert R.
Barr. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1986.
Article in a Newspaper
Bharat Dogra, “The Cost of the IMF Loan,” Deccan Herald, 27 June 1984, 8.
B: Deccan Herald 27 June 1984.
Unpublished Thesis
FN: Jonathan H. Thumra, “The Religion of the Meiteis of Manipur: A Study of the Impact of Hinduism,
with Special Reference to the Chaitanya Vaishnavism, on the Meitei Culture,” (D.Th. Dissertation, The
Senate of Serampore College, 1971).
B: Thumra, Jonathan H. “The Religion of the Meiteis of Manipur: A Study of the Impact of Hinduism,
with Special Reference to the Chaitanya Vaishnavism, on the Meitei Culture.” D.Th. Dissertation, The
Senate of Serampore College, 1971.
Interview
FN: Interview with Packiam Arokiaswamy, Archbishop Archdiocese of Bangalore, 5 July 1981.
B: Arokiaswamy, Packiam. Archbishop of Bangalore. Interview, 5 July 1981.
Internet Resources
FN: Tanushree Venkatraman, et al., “In long walk back home, migrants battle hunger, scourge of Covid-
19,” The Hindustan Times 16 May 2020, accessed on 20 August 2021,
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/in-long-walk-back-home- 247 migrants-battle-hunger-
scourge-of-disease/story.html.
B: Venkatraman, Tanushree et al., “In long walk back home, migrants battle hunger, scourge of Covid-
19.” The Hindustan Times 16 May 2020. Accessed on 20 August 2021.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/in-long-walk-back-home- 247 migrants-battle-hunger-
scourge-of-disease/story.html.
