Citations in the name-year format are referred to in the body of the paper using the in-text style. The in-text style for citations includes the author’s name and the year of publication within parentheses and the citations are listed alphabetically by the author’s surname in the end references page.
BOOK – ONE AUTHOR
Author. Date. Title. Edition. Place of publication: Publisher.
Example:
Mader S. 2000. Inquiry into life. 9th ed. Boston (MA): McGraw-Hill.
BOOK – TWO TO TEN AUTHORS
Authors. Date. Title. Edition. Place of publication: Publisher.
Example:
Misner C, Thorne K, Wheeler J. 1973. Gravitation. San Francisco (CA): W. H. Freeman.
CHAPTER OF A BOOK
Author(s) of chapter. Date. Title of chapter. In: editor(s) name, editor(s). Title of the book. Edition. Place of publication: Publisher. p. page numbers of the chapters.
Example:
Vollmer G. 1987. On supposed circularities in an empirically oriented epistemology. In: Radnitzky G, Bartley WW 3rd, editors. Evolutionary epistemology, rationality, and the sociology of knowledge. La Salle (IL): Open Court. p. 163-202.
E-BOOK
Author(s). Date. Title. Edition. Place of publication: Publisher; [accessed date]. URL
Example:
Murray RK, Bender DA, Botham KM, Kennelly PJ, Rodwell VW, Weil PA. 2009. Harper’s illustrated biochemistry. 28th ed. New York (NY): McGraw-Hill Medical [accessed 2010 Oct 14]. http://www.netlibrary.com
ARTICLE FROM A PRINT JOURNAL
Author(s). Date. Article title. Abbreviated journal title. Volume(issue):page numbers.
Example:
Kesselheim AS, Solomon DH. 2010 Jun 3. Incentives for drug development: the curious case of colchicine. N Engl J Med. 362(22):2045-2047.
ARTICLE FROM A DATABASE
Author(s). Date. Article title. Abbreviated journal title. [accessed date];volume(issue):page numbers. URL
Example:
Castonguay LG, Boswell JF, Constantino MJ, Goldfried MR, Hill CE. 2010 Jan. Training implications of harmful effects of psychological treatments. Am Psychol. [accessed 2010 Oct 24]; 65(1):34-49. http://libproxy.highpoint.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pdh&AN=amp-65-1-34&site=ehost-live DOI: 10.1037/a0017330
WEBPAGE
Title of webpage. Date. Place of publication: Publisher; [date updated; accessed date]. URL
Example:
ACS Green Chemistry Institute. c2010. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society; [accessed 2010 Oct 27]. http://portal.acs.org/portal/PublicWebSite/greenchemistry/index.htm
Author(s) name. Date. Title of dissertation or thesis [content designator -dissertation or thesis]. Place of publication: Publisher.
Example:
Harry SR. 2010. Bioanalytical approaches to chemical biology [dissertation]. Nashville (TN): Vanderbilt University.
Author(s) name. Date. Title of report. Edition. Place of publication: Publisher. Report No.: Notes.
Example:
Barbely NL, Sim BW, Kitaplioglu C, Goulding P 2nd. 2010 Jan 20. A study of acoustic reflections in full-scale rotor low frequency noise measurements acquired in wind tunnels. Moffett Field (CA): NASA Ames Research Center (US). Report No.: ARC-E-DAA-TN1156. Available from: NTRS, Hanover, MD; 20100026469.
Author(s) of paper. Date. Title of paper. In: Editor(s). Title of book. Number and name of conference; date of conference; place of conference. Place of publication: Publisher. Location. p. page numbers of the paper.
Example:
Wagner M, Taylor MW. C2005. Isotopic-labelling methods for deciphering the function of uncultured micro-organisms. In: Gadd GM, Semple KT, Lappin-Scott HM, editors. Micro-organisms and earth systems—advances in geomicrobiology. Proceedings of the 65th Symposium of the Society for General Microbiology; Staffordshire (England). New York (NY): Cambridge University Press. p. 1-10.
Author(s) of paper. Date. Title of paper [abstract]. In: Editor(s). Title of book. Number and name of conference; date of conference; place of conference. Place of publication: Publisher. Location. p. page numbers of the paper.
Example:
Flint HJ. 2006 Apr 3-6. The significance of prokaryote diversity in the human gastrointestinal tract [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 66th Symposium of the Society for General Microbiology; Coventry (UK). Cambridge (UK): University Press. p. 3.
(Name-year): VIDEO ON THE INTERNET
Title of audiovisual [video]. Date. Place of publication: Publisher; [accessed date]. URL
Example:
Cort J. 2001. NOVA: life’s greatest miracle [video on Internet]. Boston (MA): WGBH Educational Foundation; [accessed 2010 Nov 8]. media.nclive.org/play_video.php?vid=140
Author(s) name. Date. Title of audiovisual [DVD]. Edition. Place of publication: Publisher. Physical description. Notes.
Example:
Moyers BD, Hogan P, Firestone F, Ablow G, Amron A, Oneill JD, Moyers JD. 2002. Bill Moyers reports: earth on edge [DVD]. Princeton (NJ): Films for the Humanities & Sciences. 1 videodisc: 120 min, sound, color, 4 ¾ in.
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