AGLC4 Rule 6.9: Audiobooks

An audiobook is cited like a book, with Audiobook as the first item in the publication details before the publisher and year. The publisher and year are those of the audio version, the word audiobook is removed from a publisher's name, and pinpoints are to a time or span of time.

AGLC4 page 105

Format

Quoted from the Guide, page 105
Author, Title (Audiobook, Publisher, Publication Year) Pinpoint.

A boxed element is filled in with the source's details; everything outside a box is written exactly as shown.

Formatting

  • Audiobook, capitalised and roman, opens the publication details bracket and is followed by a comma.
  • The publisher and year are those of the audiobook, not of the printed book, formatted under rule 6.3.
  • The word audiobook or audiobooks is removed from the publisher's name.
  • The pinpoint is a point in time or a span of time, in hours, minutes and seconds separated by colons, under rules 1.11.3 and 1.11.4.
  • The pinpoint follows the bracket after a space, with no comma.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 105
  1. 41
    George Orwell, 1984 (Audiobook, Blackstone Audio, 2007) 11:15:05.
  2. 42
    William Ury, Roger Fisher and Bruce Patton, Getting to Yes: Negotiating an Agreement Without Giving In (Audiobook, Random House, 2012) 0:05:00–1:01:00.
  3. 43
    John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men (Audiobook, Hachette Audio, 2010).

See also

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Formats, examples, passages, tables and the forms marked Not are quoted from the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (4th ed, Melbourne University Law Review Association, 2018), with the page of the Guide they appear on. Titles, summaries and explanations are our own.