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Scientific Style (CSE) Citation Examples

Find how to cite articles, books (+ chapters, textbooks, lab manuals) magazines/newspapers, videos, conference papers, web pages, in text parentheticals, & author names. Single-space citations with a hanging indent (ctrl+t). Double-space between entries.

Books/eBooks

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[ book example ]

 

IN TEXT 

(Thewissen 2015).

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Thewissen JGM. 2015. The walking whales: from land to water in eight million years. Oakland (CA): University of California Press.

 

IN TEXT 

(Thewissen 2015).

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[ Example ]

Chakravarti A, editor. 2014. Human variation: A genetic perspective on diversity, race, and medicine. Cold Spring Harbor (NY): Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.

  

IN TEXT 

(Chakravarti 2014).

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[ CSE Citation Example for Chapter in a Book ]

IN TEXT 

(Dube and Sekhwela 2008).

 

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[ color-coded textbook example ]

IN TEXT 

(Author Last Name et al. Date).

 

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Shuster M, Vigna J, Tontonoz M, Sinha G. 2014. Biology for a changing world with physiology. 2nd ed.  New York (NY): W. H. Freeman.

IN TEXT 

(Shuster et al. 2014)

 

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Entire eBook

 

IN TEXT 

(Warburton 2015).

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Flannery MA. 2018. Nature's prophet : Alfred Russel Wallace and his evolution from natural selection to natural theology. Tuscaloosa (AL): The University of Alabama Press; [accessed 2018, Apr 1]. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=shib&db=nlebk&AN=1838243&site=eds-live&scope=site&custid=074-800.

 

IN TEXT 

 

(Flannery 2018).

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IN TEXT 

(Warburton 2015).

 

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Warburton D, editor. 2015. Stem cells, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Hackensack (NJ): World Scientific; [accessed 2016, Jul 1]. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,uid&db=nlebk&AN=942187&site=ehost-live&scope=site

 

IN TEXT 

(Warburton 2015).

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Chapter in an eBook

IN TEXT 

(Zippel 2017).

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