Biology

Council of Scientific Editors Style offers three different systems for citing sources:  citation-name, citation-sequence, and name-year (See links below for additional information).

• Citation-name
  1. End of paper reference list = alphabetic order by last name; each citation numbered
  2. In-text citations = number of reference.
• Citation-sequence
  1. End of paper reference list = arranged by the order in which they appear in the paper; each citation numbered
  2. In-text citations = number of reference.
• Name-year
  1. End of paper reference list = alphabetic order by last name
  2. In-text citations = last name and year of citation in parentheses

Brief guidelines for most commonly used cite types:

Journal citation:  Author(s). Date. Article title. Journal title. Volume(issue):page numbers.

Book citation:  Author(s). Date. Title. Edition. Place of publication: publisher.

Book chapter:  Author(s). Date. Title. Chapter Title.  In: Editor(s) name, editor.  Book Title. Place of publication: publisher. chapter pages.

Website:  Title of Homepage. Date of publication. Edition. Place of publication: publisher; [date updated; date accessed].

CSE Style requires journal titles to be abbreviated (see Journal Title Abbreviations in left column).