For example, if the author’s name for a source is “John Adams Smith,” you would list him as “Smith, J. A. ,” before listing the title of his piece.
For example, if one source has twelve authors, and the seventh author is “Smith, J. A. " and the twelfth is “Timothy, S. J. ,” you would list the first six authors, then write “Smith, J. A. . . . Timothy, S. J. "
For example, if you have a World Health Organization Report without an author as one of your sources, you would write, “World Health Organization, “Report on Development Strategies in Developing Nations,” July 1996. "
For example, an article citation might look like this: Jensen, O. E. (2012). “African Elephants. " Savannah Quarterly, 2(1), 88. If the periodical the article comes from always begins with page number 1 (these types of periodicals are called “paginated by issue” periodicals, you should include the full page range of the article. If the article was retrieved online, end the citation with the words “Retrieved from” followed by the web address.
Example: Worden, B. L. (1999). Echoing Eden. New York, New York: One Two Press. If the title is more than one word long and doesn’t contain any proper nouns, only the first word should be capitalized. Only the first letter of any subtitle should be capitalized as well.
You shouldn’t use an author’s title or degrees when listing their names in your bibliography. This is true even if they are listed that way on the source.
For example, a book citation might look like this: Butler, Olivia. Parable of the Flower. Sacramento: Seed Press, 1996.
For example, an article published in a scholarly journal might look like this: Green, Marsha. “Life in Costa Rica. " Science Magazine vol. 1, no. 4, Mar 2013: 1-2. If you’re citing an article in a newspaper, you only need the name of the newspaper, followed by the date it was published, and the page number. A citation for that might look like this: Smith, Jennifer. “Tiny Tim Wins Award. ” New York Times, 24 Dec 2017, p. A7.
For example, a website citation might look like this: Jong, June. “How to Write an Essay. " Writing Portal. 2 Aug. 2012. University of California. 23 Feb. 2013. <http://writingportal. com> Some websites, particularly academic ones, will have what’s called a DOI (digital object identifier). Write “doi:” in front of this number in place of the website’s url if a DOI is available.
Example: Skylar Marsh. “Walking on Water. " Earth Magazine 4(2001): 23.
For example, a book entry might look like this: Walter White. Space and Time. New York: London Press, 1982
Example: University of California. “History of University of California. " Last modified April 3, 2013. http://universityofcalifornia. com. Unless there is a publication date for the website you’re citing, you don’t need to include an access date. If you do have an access date, it goes at the end of the citation.
