Author's Last Name, First Initial. Second Initial.
- Authors last name, first and middle name initials
- If your source uses an Organizations' Name, you use the organizations name i.e Red Cross; Midwestern Career College
- If there is no author, use the title of your source:
- All Proper nouns must be capitalized
- Punctuation Counts. Put a period after your author
- Use et al. if there are more than 3 authors
(Year).
- Use Parenthesis: (Year)
- Place a period after the closing parenthesis (Year).
- Put the copyright year of the book in the parenthesis
- Copyright year of books are found within the first few pages in the book.
- Punctuation Matters: put a period after you enter the year
Title of book: Subtitle if given (edition if given and is not first edition).
- This refers to the name of your source (book) used in your paper
- The first letter of the Title and Subtitle must be capitalized.
- Title of article: Subtitle of article
- All Proper nouns must be capitalized
- Put a period after your title
Retrieved from Database Name database.
- The source is the webpage used in your paper
- Use ‘retrieved from’
- After ‘Retrieved from’ add the database name
- Example: Retrieved from https://ebookcentral.proquest.com
- Punctuation counts: Put a period at the end
