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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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[color coded book example ]

Author(s) Last Name and First and Middle Initials (if provided). Date of publication. Title of book: subtitle. Place of Publication (Abbreviated State): Publisher.

 

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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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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Author(s) Last Name and First and Middle Initials (if provided), editor(s). Date of publication. Title of book: subtitle. Place of Publication (Abbreviated State): Publisher.

 

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 ]

Author(s) Last Name and First and Middle Initials (if provided). Date of publication. Chapter title. In: Editor(s) last name and first and middle initials, editor(s). Book title. Edition. Place of Publication: Publisher. p. page numbers for the chapter.

 

Dube OP, Sekhwela MBM. 2008. Indigenous knowledge, institutions and practices for coping with variable climate in the Limpopo Basin of Botswana. In: Leary N, Adejuwon J, Barros V, Burton I, Killakrni J, Lasco R, editors. Climate change and adaptation. London: Earthscan. p. 71-89.

 

IN TEXT 

(Dube and Sekhwela 2008).

 

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Author(s) Last Name and First and Middle Initials (if provided), editor(s). Date of publication. Title of book: subtitle. Edition. Place of Publication (Abbreviated State): Publisher.

 

Campbell NA, Reece JB, Taylor MR, Simon EJ, Dickey JL. 2009. Biology: concepts & connections. 6th ed. San Francisco (CA): Pearson Benjamin Cummings.

 

IN TEXT 

(Author Last Name et al. Date).

(Campbell, et al. 2009)

 

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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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Author(s) Last Name and First and Middle Initials (if provided), editor(s). Date of publication. Title of book: subtitle. Place of Publication: Publisher. [Date updated; Date accessed]; Location.

 

Warburton D, editor. 2015. Stem cells, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Singapore: World Scientific; [accessed July 1, 2016]. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=shib&db=nlebk&AN=942187&site=eds-live&scope=site&custid=074-800

 

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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Author(s) Last Name and First and Middle Initials (if provided), editor(s). Date of publication. Title of book: subtitle. Place of Publication (Abbreviated State): Publisher. [Date updated; Date accessed]; Location.

 

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

Author(s) Last Name and First and Middle Initials (if provided), editor(s). Date of publication. Chapter title: subtitle. In: Editor last name, first initial, editor. Book title: subtitle. Place of Publication (Abbreviated State): Publisher. [accessed year abbreviated month day]. Chapter number: Page numbers. URL.

 

Scheibinger, L. 2017. Getting more women into science: knowledge issues. In: Kumar, N, editor. Gender and Science: studies across cultures. Stanford (CA): Stanford University Press; [accessed 2020 Nov 12]. Chapter 1: 3-19. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=shib&db=nleb&AN=614104&site+eds-live&scope=site&custid=074-800&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_3.

 

IN TEXT 

(Scheibinger 2017).

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