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CSE Name-Year Citation Style

Learn CSE (Council of Science Editors) style to document sources in the end references and in-text citations.

Examples of LPC's Frequently Cited Online Sources

*Note:  In this libguide, the examples are double-spaced for ease of reading but CSE format doesn't require double-spacing between lines or citations. 

Journal Article

Douhovnikoff V, Cheng AM, and Dodd RS. 2004. Incidence, size and spatial structure of clones in

second-growth stands of coast redwood, Sequoia sempervirens (Cupressaceae). American Journal

of Botany. [accessed 2019 Feb 21]; 91(7), 1140–1146. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4123920.

Chapter from an eBook (with Different Authors) 

A. Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia 

Mertz LA. 2004. Bears (Ursidae). In: Hutchins M, Evans AV, Jackson JA, Kleiman DG, Murphy JB,

Thoney DA, et al., editors. Grzimek's animal life encyclopedia. 2nd ed. Vol. 14. Detroit (MI): Gale;

[accessed 2021 Jan 17]. p. 295-307. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3406700882/GVRL?u=

live10669&sid=bookmark-GVRL&xid=7023a2c8.

B. Birds of the World

Heath JA, Frederick PC, Kushlan JA, Bildstein KL. 2020. White ibis (Eudocimus albus). 

In: Poole AF, editor. The birds of North America. Version 1.0. Ithaca (NY): Cornell Lab of Ornithology; 

[accessed 2021 Jan 17]. https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/whiibi/cur/introduction.

 

Sample CSE Name-Year End References 

  • Arrange the citations in alphabetical order by the first word of the citation, which is typically the author’s last name. 
  • Check with your professor regarding hanging indentations and line spacing.

This sample reference page is a work in progress but should give you a general idea of how CSE end references should be formatted: End References 10/2/2022