Output Style Instructions

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ASA - American Sociological Association, 4th Edition:

http://www.asanet.org/documents/teaching/pdfs/Quick_Tips_for_ASA_Style.pdf

References should be sorted by last name’s (including all authors) then by year published (most current first) and title. References are displayed with a “hanging indent” on the second and subsequent lines of the reference and are double spaced.

Authors:

If no author is present RefWorks will print the title as required by ASA 4th Edition. Author names should be formatted Author’s last name, followed by a comma and the first name and middle initial, ending with a period. Invert the authors’ name; if there are two or more authors, invert only the first author’s name.

For repeated authors or editors, include the full name in all references (note: this is a change from the third edition of the ASA Style Guide). Arrange references for the same author in chronological order, beginning with the oldest.

Pub Year:

If no date is available use "N.d." in place of the date.

Periodical:

Use the full periodical name if present, otherwise abbreviated. Casing should be Title Case.

Titles:

Use title case for all titles (capitalize all words except prepositions such as of, between, through), articles (such as a, the, and an), and conjunctions (such as but, and, or; however, capitalize them if they begin the title or the subtitle).

Place of Publication:

Note that the two-letter state abbreviation should be given only if needed to identify the city. For a publisher located in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, or Boston, for example, it would not be necessary to include the state abbreviation. For foreign cities provide the name of the country.

Volume:

Note that the word "volume" is capitalized and abbreviated but not italicized (example: Vol. 2).

Retrieved Date:

Include retrieved date when citing an electronic source.

Links:

Include link when citing an electronic source.

Journal Sample:

Aseltine, Robert H., Jr. and Ronald C. Kessler. 1993. “Marital Disruption and Depression in a Community Sample.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 34(3):237-51.

Kalleberg, Arne L., Barbara F. Reskin, and Ken Hudson. 2000. “Bad Jobs in America: Standard and Nonstandard Employment Relations and Job Quality in the United States.” American Sociological Review 65(2):256-78.

Journal Sample (retrieved from online database):

Ferrell, Robert H. 1990. "Truman's Place in History." Reviews in American History 18(1):1-9. (Retrieved from JSTOR on February 3, 2005.)

Book Sample:

Bursik, Robert J., Jr. and Harold G. Grasmick. 1993. Neighborhoods and Crime: The Dimensions of Effective Community Control. New York: Lexington Books.

Hagen, John and Ruth D. Peterson, eds. 1995. Crime and Inequality. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Jaynes, Gerald D. and Robin M. Williams, Jr. 1989. A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Electronic Book Sample:

Schafer, Daniel W. and Fred L. Ramsey. 2003. “Teaching the Craft of Data Analysis.” Journal of Statistics Education 11(1). Retrieved December 12, 2006 (http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v11n1/schafer.html).

Website:

American Sociological Association 2006. “Status Committees.” Washington, DC: American Sociological Association. Retrieved December 12, 2006 (http://www.asanet. org/cs/root/leftnav/committees/committees).