Presented below are a number of examples of citations for print resources as they may appear in a works-cited page using the Name-Year system. The examples are meant to be illustrative and do not encompass every possible situation. If you have questions about citing particular types of sources or dealing with particular situations, you should consult Scientific Style and Format or contact a reference librarian.

Note that, in CSE style, titles of periodicals (newspapers, journals, magazines) are capitalized as they normally are; book titles and article titles have only the first word of the title (and of any subtitles), as well as proper nouns, capitalized.

Also note that, throughout CSE style, no commas are used to offset the author's last name from his or her initials, no space separates the first and middle initial, and periods do not, in general, follow initials.

Book (view detail)

Edited Book (view detail)

Chapter in a Book (view detail)

Article from a Scholarly Journal (view detail)

Note that journal titles must be abbreviated in citations in CSE style. Rules for journal abbreviation are complex and the correct abbreviation is not always obvious; a list of journals and their abbreviations may be found at the ISI Web of Science website. In addition, resources for journal abbreviations by discipline can be found in Scientific Style and Format in Appendix 29.1 (p. 569). In the example below, the abbreviated form of the journal title Biological Conservation is used.

Article from a Magazine (view detail)
If an abbreviation is available for a magazine title, it should be used.

Article from a Newspaper (view detail)