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Modified CSE Style Guide UW Tacoma Environmental Sciences Program

 This guide is based on the following title: Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers, 7th

Edition, 2006. This is available at the reference desk in the UW Tacoma Library.  All examples follow the CSE NAME-YEAR system (3 different systems exist within CSE).

Rules for In-text Citations: When referring to authors in your in-text citation, the number of authors is important.

 If the source was written by a single author, you will write the author’s last name and the year of publication: Ex. (Lang 2010)

 If the sources is written by two authors, include the last name of each author separated with “and.” Then write the year of

publication: Ex. (Beck and Mansfield 1969)

 If the source was written by three or more authors, list only the last name of the first author followed by “et al.” and the year of

publication: Ex. (McEwen et al. 2009)

 Please see pgs. 492-495 in the CSE manual for additional examples such as how to cite multiple works by the same author or authors with identical surnames.

Some Rules for Full citations:  For book titles and article titles, only capitalize the first word, proper nouns and acronyms.

 What if my source was written by more than ten authors? List the first 10 authors in the same order as presented in the original text.

Then, write “et al.” after the tenth author.

 Ex.) Smith HR, Jones RB, Jenson TJ, Herbert NN, Stevens GI, Madison L, Thompson RT, Allan CE, Archer JK, Kling FC, et al. 2014…

 If an author cannot be identified, the use of “anonymous” is never acceptable in CSE. The citation would begin with the title of the

document, and the in-text citation would use the first word or first few words followed by an ellipse and the date. Ex. (The Handbook

for…2000). See pg. 494 in the CSE Manual for more information.

 Square brackets are used to indicate information not included in the original document. (see pgs. 500 & 504) Examples can include:

a. [date unknown] when a date of publication is not listed

b. [Internet] to indicate an online document

A General Rule for both in-text and full citations:  A date is required for ALL references. If no year of publication can be determined, you may use the copyright date prefaced by the

letter c (Ex. c2000) or revert to the [date unknown] described above.

Last name First Initial Middle Initial (if provided)

Type of Entry Examples of full citations CSE Manual In-text citations

Book Glennon RJ. 2009. Unquenchable: America’s water crisis and what to do about it. Washington (DC): Island Press.

Pgs. 527-534 (Glennon 2009)

Book (organization as author)

[PSAT] Puget Sound Action Team. 2007. 2007 Puget Sound update: 9th report of the Puget Sound assessment and monitoring program. Olympia (WA): Puget Sound Action Team.

Tip: You identify/create an organizational acronym (bracketed in front) so that it can be used in the in-text citation instead of the full organization name. This rule also applies to other types of entries such as websites and reports.

Pg. 508 (PSAT 2007)

Conference Proceedings

Jacobs DF, Michler CH, editors. 2008. Proceedings 16th Central Hardwood Forest Conference; 2008 Apr 8-9; West Lafayette, IN. Newton Square (PA): U.S. Forest Service.

Tip: See CSE Manual for examples for citing a paper IN conference proceedings. Pgs. 534-536

(Jacobs and Michler 2008)

Dissertation Tuit CB. 2003. The marine biogeochemistry of molybdenum [dissertation]. Cambridge (MA): Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Tip: If more than one publisher is listed, use the first listed or the most well-known. Never list more than one publisher (e.g. in this example the secondary publisher was Woods Hold (MA): Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution).

Pgs. 539-541 (Tuit 2003)

E-book Hogan J. 2009. Climate cover-up: the crusade to deny global warming [e-book]. Vancouver (CA): Greystone Books. Style Modification: Cite the e-book as if it was a print book. Do not include long physical descriptions or URLs as described in the style manual, but do include” [e-book]”

Pg. 552

Edited Book Mancini C, editor. 2011. Garbage and recycling. Farmington (MI): Greenhaven Press.

Pgs. 528-529 (Mancini 2011)

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Government or Technical Report

Lang DW. 2010. A survey of sport fish use on the Copper River Delta, Alaska. Portland (OR): U.S Department of Agriculture. Report No.: Gen. Tech. Rpt. PNW-GTR-814. Pgs. 537-539 (Lang 2010)

Journal article Beck B, Mansfield AW. 1969. Observations on the Greenland shark, Somniosus microcephalus, in Northern Baffin Island. J Fish Res BD Can. 26(1): 143-145.

Tip: CSE technically requires that all journal titles be abbreviated. Your professor may not require this. Please verify with your professor.

Style Modification: Cite all journal articles as if they are a print resource (like this example). Do not follow the CSE standards for online only and/or journal articles from a library database.

Pgs. 518-527 (Beck and Mansfield

1969)

Newspaper article

Mansur M. 1992 Sep 13. Gore’s book fuels debate on the environment. Kansas City Star (Metropolitan Ed.) Sect. A:1 (col. 1).

Tip: Newspaper titles are NEVER abbreviated. Style Modification: Cite all newspaper articles as if they are a print resource (like this example). Do not follow the CSE standards for online only and/or newspaper articles from a library database.

Pgs. 543-545 (Mansur 1992)

Website [WSDOE] Washington State Department of Ecology [Internet]. c1994-2011. Olympia (WA): Washington State Department of Ecology; [cited 2012 Sep 20]. Available from: http://www.ecy.wa.gov/ecyhome/html.

Pgs. 556-564 (WSDOE c1994-2011)

Website document

[WSDOE] Washington State Department of Ecology. 2007. Issue up close: managing our water successfully [Internet]; [cited 2012 Sep 19]. Available from: http://fortress.wa.gov/ecy/publications/0611023.pdf

Pgs. 556-564 (WSDOE 2007)