CSE Style: Reference List

Author is used to refer to any main person for the source. This includes editor(s), creator(s), director(s), or a group (ex. Yukon University).

For one author:

Author's last name Initials. Do not separate last name and initials with comma. Example: Smith TJ.

For two or more authors:

Author's last name Initials, Author's last name Initials. Author's last name Initials. Example: Smith TJ, Baker, AB, Park, CW.

Insert date of publication immediately after the author, separated by a period. Do not use brackets around the date. For online articles not available in PDF format or for other online sources, include also date of access [year month date].

Examples

Book

Wagner FH. 1980. Wildlife of the deserts. New York (NY): H.N. Abrams.

Online magazine article

Greenwood V. 2012 Jun 18. The humans with super human vision. Discover [accessed 2012 Sep 5]. http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jul-aug/06-humans-with-super-human-vision

The title identifies the work. If there is a subtitle, it follows after the main title, separated by a colon and a space.

Example:

Evans S, Smith JA. 2000. Ecotourism in tropical rainforests: an environmental management option for threatened resources? In: Ford JT, Tribe R, editors. Forest tourism and recreation: case studies in environmental management. 4th ed. Wallingford (GB): CABI Publishing. p. 127-142.

Indicates where readers can retrieve the cited work.

Example

[WHO]. World Health Organization. 2004. World health report 2004: changing history. Geneva (CH): World Health Organization; [accessed 2008 Jul 22]. 170 p. http://www.who.int/entity/whr/2004/en/report04_en.pdf