Citation Style & Referencing Guide

Book with One Author

Last name, First initial. (Year). Title of the book. Publisher.

Example: Nikhilananda, S. (2023). Hinduism: Its Meaning for Liberation of Spirit. Fingerprint! Pub.

Book with Multiple Authors

Author Last Name, First Initial., Author Last Name, First Initial., Author Last Name, First Initial., & Author Last Name, First Initial. (Year). Title of the book. Publisher.

Example: Corti, L., Eynden, V. V. den, Bishop, L., & Woollard, M. (2019). Managing and Sharing Research Data: A Guide to Good Practice. SAGE Publications Ltd.

Edited Book by Single Editor

Editor Last Name, First Initial. (Ed.). (Year). Title of the book. Publisher.

Example: Doe, J. (Ed.). (2020). Contemporary Issues in Sociology. Springer.

Edited Book by Two Editors

Editor Last Name, First Initial., & Editor Last Name, First Initial. (Eds.). (Year). Title of the book. Publisher.

Example: Doe, J. A., & Smith, R. B. (Eds.). (2020). Contemporary Issues in Sociology. Springer.

Chapter in Edited Book

Author Last Name, First Initial., Author Last Name, First Initial., & Author Last Name, First Initial. (Year). Title of the chapter. In Editor First Initial. Last Name & Editor First Initial. Last Name (Eds.), Title of the book (pp. page range of the chapter). Publisher.

Example: Smith, J. A., Johnson, R. B., & Williams, S. C. (2020). Understanding the effects of social media on mental health. In M. Brown & L. White (Eds.), Contemporary Issues in Sociology (pp. 45-67). Springer.

Chapter in a Edited Book by Three Authors (Multiple Editors of Book)

Author Last Name, First Initial., Author Last Name, First Initial., Author Last Name, First Initial., & Author Last Name, First Initial. (Year). Title of the book. Publisher.

Example: Ageev, M., Dobrov, B., & Loukachevitch, N. (2006). Socio-Political Thesaurus in Concept-Based Information Retrieval. In C. Peters, F. C. Gey, J. Gonzalo, H. Müller, G. J. F. Jones, M. Kluck, B. Magnini, & M. de Rijke (Eds.), Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories (pp. 141–150).

Journal Article

Website Article with Author

Last name, First initial. (Year, Month Day). Title of the article. Title of the Website. URL

Example: Williams, S. (2021, January 15). The future of renewable energy: Challenges and opportunities.

Government Report

Government Agency. (Year). Title of the report. Publisher. URL or DOI

Example: Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. (2015). Statistics Related to Climate Change - India.

Ebook

Last name, First initial. (Year). Title of the book [Ebook edition]. Publisher. DOI or URL

Example: Garcia, M. (2018). Introduction to Neuroscience [Ebook edition]. Springer.

Newspaper Article (Print)

Last name, First initial. (Year, Month Day). Title of the article. Newspaper Name, Page number(s).

Example: Roberts, P. (2020, December 5). New study reveals alarming trends in global warming. The New York Times, p. A1.

Newspaper Article (Online)

Author Last Name, First Initial. (Year, Month Day). Title of the article. Newspaper Name. URL

Example: Example: Qamar, F., & Pandit, J. M. (2023, December 27). Need to be careful about tech-driven human resource management in HEIs. Financialexpress.

Make sure to italicize the newspaper name and capitalize only the first word of the title, the first word after a colon or em dash, and proper nouns.

Conference Paper

Author Last Name, First Initial. (Year). Title of the paper. Title of the conference proceedings (pp. page range). Publisher.

Example: Goyal, G. R., & Mehta, H. D. (2015). Multi-objective optimal active power dispatch using swarm optimization techniques. 2015 5th Nirma University International Conference on Engineering (NUiCONE), 1–6.

Make sure to italicize the title of the conference proceedings and capitalize only the first word of the title, the first word after a colon or em dash, and proper nouns.