Citation Style Guide : CSE

CSE citation is used in all areas of the sciences.

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This is only intended to be a guide. Your professor may have specific or additional requirements not listed in this guide.

Note: CSE uses strict capitalization and abbreviation rules:

• When citing journals, use the official abbreviation of its title. (List of Title Word Abbreviations). If a journal name is only one word, do not abbreviate.
       Example:   Nature              J Amb Intel Hum Comp
   
• Author names: List the author's last name, followed by a space, then initial with no periods. Make sure to match exactly how the name is listed, following the capitalization and punctuation printed in the source material:
       Example: Terry Winograd → Winograd T      Irene de la Cruz-Pavía → de la Cruz-Pavía I      Yu-Ting Chen → Chen Y-T
   
• Multiple authors: List each author in the same order they are listed in the source material, separated by a comma. For books with more than 5 authors, list the first author followed by “et al.”
       Example: Honghai Guan, Qingli Chen, Song Han, Baoge Zhang → Guan H, Chen Q, Han S, Zhang B
       Example: Eckart Voigts, Robin Markus Auer, Dietmar Elflein, Sebastian Kunas, Jan Röhnert, Christoph Seelinger
                       → Voigts E et al
   
• Only capitalize the first word in the title and any proper nouns (i.e. names). All other words, including subtitles, should be in lowercase.
       Example: Shifting viewpoints: artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction
   
• Taxonomic names: Use capitalized italics for the Genus and lowercase italics for the species (Dirofilaria immitis). Do not italicize the names of higher orders and families (Onchocercidae).