References or Works Cited
- Entries in the list are ordered alphabetically by author's last name, or if no author is given, by the title or a keyword
In Text Citations
Single Author
- There MUST be an entry in the reference list for every text citation. List the author's last name followed by the year
Example:
Video games can provide health benefits to the sick (Haugen 2008).
Multiple Works Published by the Same Author in Different Years
- List the author and the years in chronological sequence
Example:
Studies of gamer's at play (Flanders 1970, 1975) have shown that...
Multiple Authors
- For 2 authors, list both names in the in-text reference, separated by "and"
Example:
...and the most recent work on Tetris (Sareth and Nukem 2001) is...
- For more than 2 authors, list the first author followed by "et al." or "and others" and the year
Example:
... but later studies (Haugen et al. 2008) determined that...
... but in later studies by Haugen and others (2008) it was determined that...
Corporation or Organization as Authors
- List the initial letter of each part of name or readily recognizable abbreviation and the year
Example:
The landmark report on nuclear power (SNPP 1979) was...