15: Author-Date References
- The scope of this chapter
- Author-date references versus notes and bibliography
- Notes and bibliography entries as models for author-date references
- Sources consulted online
- The author-date system—overview
- Basic structure of a reference list entry
- Basic structure of an in-text citation
- Page numbers and other locators
- Author-date references—examples and variations
- Function and placement of reference lists
- Alphabetical arrangement of reference list entries
- Authors’ names in reference list entries
- Titles in reference list entries
- Placement of dates in reference list entries
- Abbreviations in reference list entries
- Single author versus several authors—reference list order
- The 3-em dash in reference lists—some caveats
- Chronological order for repeated names in a reference list
- The 3-em dash with edited, translated, or compiled works
- Reference list entries with same author(s), same year
- Agreement of text citation and reference list entry
- Text citations—basic form
- Page and volume numbers or other specific locators in text citations
- Additional material in text citations
- Text citations in relation to surrounding text and punctuation
- Text citations in relation to direct quotations
- Several references to the same source
- Syntactic considerations with text citations
- Text citations of works with more than three authors
- Multiple text references
- Author-date system with notes
- Items not necessarily covered in chapter 14
- Publications preferring initials for authors’ names
- Author-date format for anonymous works (no listed author)
- Pseudonyms in author-date references
- Editor in place of author in text citations
- Organization as author in author-date references
- Publications preferring sentence-style capitalization for titles
- Citing author-date sources by title
- Reprint editions and modern editions—more than one date
- Multivolume works published over more than one year
- Cross-references to multiauthor books in reference lists
- Author-date style for letters in published collections
- No date of publication in author-date references
- “Forthcoming” in author-date references
- Publications preferring abbreviations for journal titles
- Parentheses or comma with issue number
- Colon with volume number
- Newspapers and magazines in reference lists
- Websites and access dates in author-date format
- Citing blogs in author-date format
- Citing social media content in author-date format
- Unpublished interviews and personal communications
- Manuscript collections in author-date format
- Patents or other documents cited by more than one date
- “Quoted in” in author-date references
- Citing recordings and multimedia in author-date format
- Using notes for legal and public documents
- Citing legal and public documents in text