See pages 40-41 in the manual for more detail.
Sample citation for a dissertation retrieved from ProQuest database:
Aguiar, L. (2001). The ‘dirt' on the contract cleaning industry in Toronto:
Cleanliness and work reorganization (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved
from Proquest Dissertations & Theses. (Publication number AAT NQ67931)
Sample citation for a thesis retrieved from an online database:
Gibson, L. S. (2007). Considering critical thinking and History 12: One
teacher's story (Master's thesis). Retrieved from https://circle.ubc.ca/
Thesis or Dissertation Retrieved from Online Repository.
Format:
Author Last Name, First Name or Initial. Year of Pub. Title of Thesis. Date of Publication. Publisher, Description of Work. Container (Name of Repository), Location (URL or DOI).
Sample citation for a dissertation retrieved from the MLA database:
Wang, Yuanfei. Feminine Fantasies and Reality in the Fiction of Eileen Chang and Alice Munro. 2004. U of British Columbia, MA Thesis. cIRcle, dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0091943.
In-text citation: (Wang 125)
See pages 746-747 (#14.224) in the manual for more detail. Note: The examples below are for a bibliographic entry. For footnotes/endnotes rearrange the pieces of the citation below following the basic format of a book citation.
Sample citation for a dissertation retrieved from ProQuest database:
Rose, John Stanley. "Charting Citizenship: The Political Participation of
Immigrants in Richmond and Surrey, British Columbia." PhD diss.,
University of British Columbia, 2007. ProQuest (AAT NR31918).
Sample citation for a thesis retrieved from an online database:
Brillinger, Marc A. "Silence Descends: The Effects of Rising Authoritarianism
and Fear on Citizen Engagement." Master's thesis, University of British
Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/17437
The UBC Research Commons offers workshops throughout each term on three of the most popular citation management tools: RefWorks, Mendeley, and Zotero. To view upcoming workshops and to register for a session, visit the Library Workshops and Events Calendar and search for citation management. They also offer individual consultation appointments, via the link under "Consultations" on the main Research Commons page. You can also email them at research.commons@ubc.ca.