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CMS Basic Information
When creating your citation list begin each entry flush with the left margin. If an entry requires more than one line, indent the subsequent lines by ½ inch (one tab space on computer). Double-space the entire list. This is done within each entry as well as between each entry.
A Book with One Author
Basic format:
Author’s Last name, First name. Title of the Book. Place of publication: Publisher, date of
publication. Medium of publication.
Example:
Wilson, Frank R. The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture.
New York: Pantheon, 1998. Print.
A Book with Two or More Authors
Basic format: (for multiple authors, only reverse the first author’s name)
Author's Last name, First name, Author’s First name Last name, and Author’s First name
Last name. Title of the Book. Place of publication: Publisher, date of publication.
Medium of publication.
Example:
Eggins, Suzanne, and Diana Slade. Analyzing Casual Conversation. London: Cassell, 1997.
Print.
An Electronic Book from the Cerritos College Library
Basic format:
Author’s Last name, First name. Title of the Book. Place of publication: Publisher, date of publication.
Name of Database. Medium of publication. Date of access.
Example:
Hayes, Kevin J. The Road to Monticello: the Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008.
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 30 Nov. 2011.
An Electronic Book from the Web
Basic format:
Author’s Last name, First name. Title of the Book. Title of the overall Web site. Place of
Publication: Publisher, date of publication. Medium of publication. Date of access.
Example:
Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. Project Guttenberg. Champaign, IL: Project Guttenberg
Literary Archive Foundation, 1998. Web. 4 September 2009.
An Article in a Familiar Reference Book
Basic format:
Author’s Last name, First name. “Title of Article.” Title of Reference Book. edition. Date of
publication. Medium of publication.
Example:
Hong, Maria. “Guatemalan Americans.” Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. 5th ed.
2000. Print.
An Article in a Less Familiar Reference Book
Basic format:
Author’s Last name, First name. “Title of Article.” Title of Reference Book. Editor. # vol.
Place of publication: Publisher, Date of publication. Medium of publication.
Example:
La Patourel, John. “Normans and Normandy.” Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Ed. Joseph R.
Strayer. 13 vols. New York: Scribner’s, 1987. Print.
An Article in an Anthology
Basic format:
Last name, First name. "Title of Essay." Title of Collection. Ed. Editor's Name(s). Place of
Publication: Publisher, Year. Page range of entry. Medium of Publication.
Example One:
Gaines, Ernest J. “The Sky Is Gray.” The Oxford Book of the American South: Testimony,
Memory, and Fiction. Ed. Edward L. Ayers and Bradley C. Mittendorf. New York: Oxford,
1997. 492-516. Print.
Example Two: (reprinted article)
Bean, Michael J. "The Endangered Species Act Is Effective." Endangered Species: Opposing
Viewpoints. Ed. Brenda Stalcup. San Diego: Greenhaven, 1996. 73-79. Rpt. of
"Naysayers Downplay Species Act Successes." Insight. 30 May 1994. Print.
A Print Scholarly Journal Article
Basic format:
Author’s Last name, First name. “Title of Article.” Journal Title volume number. Issue
number (year of publication): page numbers. Medium of publication.
Example:
Craner, Paul M. “New Tool for an Ancient Art: The Computer and Music.” Computers and
the Humanities 25. 5 (1991): 303-13. Print.
A Scholarly Journal Article from a Database
Basic format:
Author’s Last name, First name. “Title of Article.” Journal Title volume number, Issue
number (year of publication): inclusive page numbers. Source of database. Medium of
publication. Date of access.
Example:
May, Lisa D. “The Backfiring of the Domestic Violence Firearms Bans.” Columbia Journal of
Gender and the Law 14. 1 (2005): 1. GenderWatch. Web. 8 Sept. 2009.
A Print Magazine Article
Basic format:
Author’s Last name, First name. “Title of Article.” Magazine Title Day Month Year: page
numbers. Medium of publication.
Example:
Weintraub, Arlene, and Laura Cohen. “A Thousand-Year Plan for Nuclear Waste.”
BusinessWeek 6 May 2002: 94-96. Print.
A Magazine Article from a Database
Basic Format:
Author’s last name, first name. “Title of Article.” Name of publication including volume
number (year of publication) page number(s). Name of database. Medium of publication.
Date of access.
Example:
Horowitz, Alexandra. “My Dog Is Smarter Than Your Dog.” Discover 29 (2008): 71.
MasterFile Premier. Web. 8 Sept. 2009.
An Article from an Online Magazine (not from a database)
Basic format:
Author’s last name, First name. “Article name.” Title of web magazine, Publisher Name,
Date of Publication: page-page. Medium of publication, Date of access.
Example:
Bianchi, Stephanie. “Peerless Pathways to Find Peer Reviews.” Online 33, 4, July/August
2009: n.p. Web, 08 Sept. 2009.
A Web Site
Basic format:
Name of web site. Date of posting. Name of organization associated with the site. Date you
Accessed the site. <web address>.
Example:
Cerritos College Library. 2009. Cerritos College. 17 September 2009.
<www.cerritos.edu/library>.