In our citation examples, we use the following color coding:
- Red – Author
- Blue – Title of book/article/charter/webpage
- Pink – Date
- Orange – Website/Publisher
- Green – Title of journal
- Violet – Editor/Translator
- Black – Volume/Issue
- Sienna – Pages
Article from a scholarly journal (1 author)
Example:
List entry: Tzenios N. 2023. Obesity as a risk factor for cancer. EPRA Int J Res Dev. 8(2): 101-104.
In-text: (Tzenios 2023).
Article from a scholarly journal (2 authors)
Example:
List entry: Loos RJ, Yeo GS. 2022. The genetics of obesity: from discovery to biology. Nat Rev Gen. 23(2): 120-133.
In-text: (Loos and Yeo 2022).
Article from a scholarly journal (3 to 5 authors)
Example:
List entry: Pan XF, Wang L, Pan A. 2021. Epidemiology and determinants of obesity in China. Lancet Diabet End. 9(6): 373-392.
In-text: (Pan et al 2021).
Article from a scholarly journal (more than 5 authors)
Example:
List entry: Anekwe CV, Jarrell AR, Townsend MJ, Gaudier GI, Hiserodt JM, et al. 2020. Socioeconomics of obesity. Curr Obes Rep. 9: 272-279.
In-text: (Anekwe et al 2020).
Newspaper article (print version)
Do not abbreviate names of newspapers. Instead of volume or issue number, include section info. Also, add column information, if available.
Example:
List entry: Zimmer C. 2021 Apr 9. To speed vaccination, some call for delaying second shots. The New York Times. Sect. A:34.
In-text: (Zimmer 2021).
Magazine article (print version)
Example:
List entry: Kim S. 2021. Child COVID cases are highest in these states. Newsweek. 5(5): 1-2.
In-text: (Kim 2021).
Handout materials
Mention as much information as possible including author’s (instructor’s) last name and initials, the year, and title of the material/handout was created. It is also required to give the name of the college/facility. (The information in the example below is fictional).
Example:
List entry: Smith J. 2023. Marketing manual. Cambridge Marketing College.
In-text: (Smith 2023).
Forthcoming journal article (preprint)
Example:
List entry: Lopez Bernal J et al. 2021. Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against the B.1.617.2 variant [preprint]. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.22.21257658
In-text: (Lopez Bernal et al 2021).