CSE SOURCE MAP: Articles from Databases
Note that date placement will vary depending on whether you are using the citation-sequence or citation-name format or the name-year format.
- 1 Author. List author(s) last name first, and use only initials for first and middle names.
- 2, 5 Publication date. For name-year format, put publication date after author name(s). In citation-sequence or citation-name format, put it after periodical title. Use year only (for journals) or year, month, and day (for other periodicals).
- 3 Article title. Capitalize first word and proper nouns/adjectives.
- 4 Periodical title. Capitalize major words. Abbreviate journal titles. Follow with [Internet] and a period.
- 6 Date of access. In brackets, write cited and year, month, and day. End with a semicolon.
- 7 Publication information for article. Give volume number, issue number (in parentheses), and a colon.
- 8 Page numbers. Give the page range. End with a period.
- 9 Name of database. End with a period.
- 10 Publication information for database. Include the city, the state abbreviation in parentheses, a colon, the publisher’s name, and a period.
- 11 Web address and document number. Write Available from: and the brief URL, then Document No. and the identifying number.
A citation for the article on p. 535 would look like this:
CITATION-SEQUENCE OR CITATION-NAME FORMAT
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