• In the reference list, list alphabetically by author

In Text Citations

Single Author

• For in-text references, list the author and the year

Example:
Due to uneasiness on the part of male spectators the foot-long hotdog has been removed from the concession menu (Flanders 2002).

Multiple Works Published by the Same Author in Different Years

• List the author and the years in chronological sequence

Example:
Flanders's studies of concession offerings (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 the Flying Hellfish (Burns and Simpson 2001) is...

• For more than 2 authors, list the first author followed by "et al." and the year

Example:
... but later studies (Carlson et al. 2004) 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...