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Citing Special Sources: E-I

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Electronic Book

Electronic books are handled very similarly to print books, except with the addition of a URL and date accessed.

AMA

Use following elements where applicable:

Full books:

Authors(s) (or Editors eds. after name). Book Title. Edition. (city, state, or, for Canada, city, province, country, or, all others, city, country): publisher's name; year of publication. Accessed [Month Date, year].

Example:
Brown K, Simpson E. Obesity and breast cancer. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. URL: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-1-4899-8002-1. Accessed January 22, 2014.

Chapters:

Author(s). Chapter title. In: Editors, ed(s). Book Title. Edition. Publisher's location (city, state, or, for Canada, city, province, country, or, all others, city, country): publisher's name; year of publication. URL: [provide the URL and verify that the link works before submission]. Accessed [Date]. Pages.

Example:
Murphy F, Fawcett S, Schultz J, Holt C. Fundamental Core Concepts in the Community Engagement, Organization, and Development Process. In: Murphy F, ed. Community Engagement, Organization, and Development for Public Health Practice. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. URL: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=478522&site=ehost-live. Accessed January 22, 2014.1-24.

APA

Use following elements where the book can only be purchased or accessed online, and is not in print.

Full books:

Author, A. A. (Year). Title. Publisher. URL

Example:

Brown, K.A. & Simpson, E.R. (2014). Obesity and breast cancer. Springer. http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-1-4899-8002-1


Chapters:

Author, A. A. (Year). Chapter title. In: Editors, ed(s). Book title (pages of chapters). Publisher. URL

If there are no page numbers, use the chapter or entry title.

Example:

Murphy, F. G., Fawcett, S. B., Schultz, J. A., & Holt, C. A. (2013). Fundamental core concepts in the community engagement, organization, and development process. In: F. Murphy (Ed.). Community engagement, organization, and development for public health practice (pp. 1-24). Ebsco. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=478522&site=ehost-live

Government/Organization Reports

AMA

Use following elements where applicable:

Reports with named authors: Author AA. Title of the report. URL. Series Name and series number. Published Month, Day, Year. Updated Month, Day, Year. Accessed Month, Day, Year.

Institutional authors: Name of the organization. Title of the report. URL. Series Name and series number. Published Month, Day, Year. Updated Month, Day, Year. Accessed Month, Day, Year.

Example:
American Psychological Association, Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls. Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls. http://www.apa.org/pi/women/programs/girls/report.aspx. Accessed July 26, 2014.

APA

Use following elements where applicable:

Reports with named authors:
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year). Title of work (Report No. XXX). Publisher. URL

Institutional authors:
Name of the organization. (Year). Title of work (Report No. XXX). Publisher. URL

Example:
American Psychological Association, Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls. (2007). Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls. http://www.apa.org/pi/women/programs/girls/report.aspx
 
For more information, see the APA Style Blog entry on Report with Individual Authors Reference.

Graphs

In papers or manuscripts you shouldn't cite or reproduce a specific graph from a paper, so there isn't a formal rule regarding how to give attribution when reproducing a graph in a presentation. It is generally recommended to attribute the graph as you would anything else. So let's say you want to attribute this graph:

Graph from New Zealand's National Institute for Communicable Diseases' Monthly Surveillance Report

Which was taken from the Graph from New Zealand's National Institute for Communicable Diseases' Monthly Surveillance Report available here: http://www.nicd.ac.za/assets/files/Monthly%20NICD%20Surveillance%20Report%20-%20January%202013.pdf


AMA

Attribute it with a number and then cite the report as you would any other report. If you need help with how to do that, see our section above on citing Organization or Government reports.

Authors (or Organization). Title of table or description of data. Journal/original publisher. Publication year; issue: pages.

Example:

1. National Institute for Communicable Diseases'. Number of Salmonella cases by month in South Africa, 2012 and 2013. National Institute for Communicable Diseases' Monthly Surveillance Report. 2013:4. http://www.nicd.ac.za/assets/files/Monthly%20NICD%20Surveillance%20Report%20-%20January%202013.pdf. Accessed 11/21/2014.


APA

Use the standard in-text citation style, which in this case would be (NICD, 2013) then cite it at the end as you would any other report. If you need help with how to do that, see our section above on citing Organization or Government reports

Name of researching organization. (year). [Brief explanation of what type of data it is, what form it is in]. Project Information. URL

Example:

National Institute for Communicable Diseases. (2013). [Number of Salmonella cases by month in South Africa, 2012 and 2013]. National Institute for Communicable Diseases' Monthly Surveillance Report. http://www.nicd.ac.za/assets/files/Monthly%20NICD%20Surveillance%20Report%20-%20January%202013.pdf

Images

In papers or manuscripts you shouldn't cite or reproduce a specific image from a paper, so there isn't a formal rule regarding how to give attribution when reproducing a image in a presentation. It is generally recommended to attribute the image as you would anything else. So let's say you want to attribute this image:

Graph from Children’s Food Environment State Indicator Report, 2011

This was taken from the State-Specific Trends in Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Among Adults --- United States, 2000--2009 report from the CDC available here: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5935a1.htm?s_cid=mm5935a1_w


AMA

Attribute it with a number and then cite the report as you would any other report. If you need help with how to do that, see our section above on citing Organization or Government reports.

Example:
Author of image (if given). Title of image. In:Author of electronic resource (if given). Electronic Resource Title [medium]. Version number (if given). Place of publication: Publisher; date of publication.

APA

Use the standard in-text citation style, which in this case would be (CDC, 2010) then cite it at the end as you would any other report. If you need help with how to do that, see our section above on citing Organization or Government reports

Example:
Author, A. A. (Role of Author). (Year image was created). Title of work [Type of work]. Retrieved Month Day, Year, from: URL

In Process

In Process is the designation for manuscripts which have been submitted, but not accepted for publication. The reasoning for specifying the year the manuscript was written rather than when it was submitted is that the publication process may take enough time to cause a disparity between the year it was submitted to the publisher and the year it is published. You should not name the journal it was submitted to because the manuscript may be rejected by the journal and resubmitted to another journal which would cause your citation to be misleading and inaccurate.


AMA

In AMA, material submitted for publication but not accepted is considered unpublished data.

Use following elements where applicable in text:

A.A. Author, Degree abbreviated (unpublished data, year manuscript was written)

Example:
Similar findings have been noted by Roberts6 and H.E. Harman, MD (unpublished data, 2005) ...

APA

Use following elements where applicable:

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year the manuscript was written). Title of paper [Manuscript submitted for publication]. Department, Institution.

Example:
Castle, R. (2012). Shadowing a police officer: How to be unobtrusive while solving cases in spectacular fashion [Manuscript submitted for publication]. Department of Sociology, University of Central Florida.

In Press

In Press is the term used for articles which have been accepted for publication by a journal, but not formally published. There may be advanced copies of the article available from the publisher's website, but since it has been formally published is no volume or page numbers. In cases of an article being available on the publisher's website, you may need to include some additional information to complete the citation.


AMA

Use following elements where applicable:

Author AA. Title. Journal (Abbreviated). In press.

Example:
Brown JE. The relation between citations and references. J Med Style. In press.

APA

Use following elements where applicable:

Accepted for publication, but no advanced copy available: Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (in press). Title of paper. Journal.

Advance copy available: Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year the advanced copy is posted to the journal's website). Title of paper [Advance online publication]. Journal. DOI or URL

Examples:
Castle, R. (in press). Shadowing a police officer: How to be unobtrusive while solving cases in spectacular fashion. Professional Writers’ Journal.
Muldoon, K., Towse, J., Simms, V., Perra, O., & Menzies, V. (2012). A longitudinal analysis of estimation, counting skills, and mathematical ability across the first school year [Advance online publication]. Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0028240

Issue Briefs

AMA

Use following elements where applicable:

Name of Instutiton or Organization. Title of the issue brief. Journal. Year of publication: Issue Brief Number.

Example:
Employee Benefit Research Institute. Sources of Health Insurance and Characteristics of the Uninsured: Analysis of the March 1994 Current Population Survey. 1995: 158.

APA

Use following elements where applicable:

Name of the Institution. (Year, Month Day). Title of the issue brief (Issue Brief No. XXX). Publisher. URL

Examples:
Employee Benefit Research Institute. (1995, February). Sources of health insurance and characteristics of the uninsured: Analysis of the March 1994 Current Population Survey (Issue Brief No. 158). http://www.ebri.org/pdf/briefspdf/0295ib.pdf