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Departmental files are listed with prefixes, such as Land Headquarters (LHQ), HQ ADF, ADHQ, and LOGOMD. These files were examined in Sydney (LHQ), Canberra and Queanbeyan (HQ ADF, ADHQ), or Melbourne (LOGCOMD). Files beginning with a two-digit prefix, or ‘K’ followed by a two-digit prefix, belong to the Commonwealth Record series A6721. Files beginning with four-digit prefixes belong to the Commonwealth Record series A11502.

Classified sources were examined at either in Russell Offices, Canberra, or at the Defence Archives, Queanbeyan.

Copies of documents listed in footnotes as being held by the author are located in the repository of the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping and Post-Cold War Operations Project at the Australian War Memorial.

Recordings of interviews are located in the repository of the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping and Post Cold War Operations Project at the Australian War Memorial.

The author conducted research with Australian forces in Somalia (April–May 1993) and, periodically, in Bougainville (1998–2000) and East Timor (2000–2002). His journals contain interview notes, records of conversations and meetings as well as observations, both professional and personal. Copies of these journals are currently held by the author and will be located in the repository of the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping and Post Cold War Operations Project at the Australian War Memorial in due course.

Sometimes there is a difference between the military ranks of individuals mentioned in the text and identified as sources in footnotes and in the Bibliography, usually as interviewees. The rank used in the text and when the person has been used as a source is the one worn at the time.