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Always provide the following if available (Rule 6.03, pp.170 - 171).:

• author(s) - if there is no author, use the title (you may abbreviate it, if it's long)

• year - if there is no year, use n.d.

• WHEN QUOTING (optional if you paraphrase):

• provide a specific page number(s);
• if there is no page number, provide another locator (such as a section name, chapter/paragraph heading and/or number for online sources). If shortening a long heading, put it in quotation marks;
• the word page is abbreviated to p. and pages to pp.;
• the word chapter is written in full;
• paragraph is abbreviated to para (Rule 6.05 pp. 171-172).

Examples

• According to Marketline (2010), "direct_quotation" (p. 34).

• "Direct_quotation" (Acer, Inc., 2010, Environmental Scan).

• Brown and Clark (2012) reported that ...

• ....... (Brown & Clark, 2012)

• "Direct_quotation" (Jones, n.d., pp. 5-6).

List works by different authors who are cited within the same parentheses in alphabetical order by the first author's surname or group/organization name (Rule 6.16 p. 177).

Example

• .....(Bureau van Dijk, 2010; Datamonitor, 2009; Simpson, 2010).

Capitalize all major words in titles within the body of the paper (Rule 4.15, p.101).

Example

• According to the Nielsen Global Consumer Confidence Survey of 2010 [...]
• In the book Business Ethics as Rational Choice, Hooker claims that [...]