CSE reference list example. Basic format, citation-sequence system: [first entry, begin with the number in the sequence the source appears in the text]: 1. [author, last name plus initial, followed by period] Ketchum J. [title of work, not italicized, followed by semicolon] Lab manual for Botany 100; [date, followed by period] 2005. [next entry, number 2 followed by period] 2. [authors, last names plus initials, followed by period] Kershaw KA, Looney JHH. [book title, not italicized, followed by period] Quantitative and dynamic plant ecology. [edition, abbreviated, followed by period] 3 r d ed. [place of publication, followed by colon] London: [publisher, followed by semicolon] Edward Arnold; [year, followed by period] 1985.