This guide is based on the 6th edition of the ASA Style Guide.
General Guidelines
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Formatting
Structure your paper using the following sections:
Articles
Article, Print Journal, One Author
Garcia, Alma M. 1998. "An Intellectual Odyssey: Chicana/Chicano Studies Moving into the Twenty-first Century." Journal of American Ethnic History 18:109.
Article, Print Journal, Two or More Authors
Exum, William H., Robert J. Menges, Bari Watkins, and Patricia Berglund. 1984. "Making it at the top: Women and minority faculty in the academic labor market." American Behavioral Scientist 27:301-324.
Article, Online Library Database
Graham, Lorie M. 1998. "The Past Never Vanishes: A Contextual Critique of the Existing Indian Family Doctrine." American Indian Law Review 23:1. Retrieved May 25, 1999 Available: LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe, Law Reviews.
NOTE: When formatting your works cited page, make sure your citations are double spaced with a hanging indent.
Books
Book, Single Author
De Anda, Roberto M. 1995. Chicanas and Chicanos in Contemporary Society. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
Book, Two Authors
Herrera-Sobek, Mari'a and Helena Mari'a Viramontes. 1995. Chicana (W)rites : On Word and Film. Berkeley, CA: Third Woman Press.
Book, Three or More Authors
Edelman, Peter, Harry J. Holzer, and Paul Offner. 2006. Reconnecting Disadvantaged Young Men. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press.
A Work (e.g., essay, short story) in an anthology or compilation
Russell, Katheryn K., Heather L. Pfeifer, and Judith L. Jones, comp. 2000. Race and Crime: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Book, with Translator or other Contributors
Lattimore, Richmond, trans. 1951. The Iliad of Homer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
E-book
Wimberly, George L. 2015. LGBTQ Issues in Education: Advancing a Research Agenda. Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association. Https://ebooks.aera.net/catalog/book/lgbtq-issues-education-advancing-research-agenda.
NOTE: When formatting your works cited page, make sure your citations are double spaced with a hanging indent.
Web Sources
Web Based Journal
Smith, Herman W. and Takako Nomi. 2000. "Is Amae the Key to Understanding Japanese Culture?." Electronic Journal of Sociology 5:1. Retrieved May 5, 2000 (http://www.sociology.org/content/vol005.001/smith-nomi.html).
Information Posted on a Website
American Sociological Association. 2000. "Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Workshop." Washington, DC: American Sociological Association, Retrieved May 5, 2000 (http://www.asanet.org/members/socwkshp.html)
NOTE: When formatting your works cited page, make sure your citations are double spaced with a hanging indent.
Government Documents
Since the nature of public documents is so varied, the form of entry for documents cannot be standardized. The essential rule is to provide sufficient information so that the reader can locate the reference easily. For example:
United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development. 1999. Rehab a home with HUD's 203(k) : HUD and FHA are on your side. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development.
Dissertations and Theses
King, Andrew J. 1976. "Law and Land Use in Chicago: A Pre-History of Modern Zoning." PhD dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
NOTE: When formatting your works cited page, make sure your citations are double spaced with a hanging indent.
In-Text Citations
In-text citations include the author(s)'s name and year of publication. When using quotations, include page numbers. Use the same in-text citation when you cite an author more than once in a paper.
If author's name is in the text, follow it with the publication year in parentheses:
If the author's name is not in the text, enclose the last name and year in parentheses:
If the page number is to be included, it follows the year of publication after a colon:
For three authors, give all last names in the first citation in the text; afterwards use the first name and et al.; for more than three names, use the first author's last name plus et al.:
Quotations in the text must begin and end with quotation marks; the citation follows the end quote mark and precedes the period: