Section 10.6.4.3
General Structure of Entry
A CMS entry has four elements: author(s); title; publication
information including the date; and the page number or numbers. Separate the author's name from
the title with a comma, and place the publication information in
parentheses. If a page number is included, follow the parentheses
with a comma and the page number or numbers.
- Author or authors: List up to three authors, all in straightforward
(rather than last-name-first) order.
- Title: Give the full name of the work, including the subtitles, if any,
which is separated from the title by a colon and a
single space. Capitalize all significant words, the
first word of the title, and the last word after a colon. If the source is not a book or an article,
include a description of the source's form.
- Publication information--date format: Always give the year. In some
cases, such as some types of periodicals and online sources, the month or the month
and day are included as part of the date. Dates are in arabic numerals the format day, month (not abbreviated), and year, or month and year. Dates are not
punctuated.
- Page numbers: For a range of numbers, write out the full first number
followed by a hyphen and the final one or two digits
of the last number (66-98, but 105-9). Give all the digits of the second number in
cases where they are needed to make the range immediately apparent to the reader
(66-98, but 66-103 instead of 66-03). Use the abbreviations p. and pp. for
page numbers of sources from journals without volume numbers.
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