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Citation Styles Guide

CSE In-Text Citations

This guide will cover the Name-Year method of CSE in-text citations. For more information on the other two methods, be sure to visit the CSE-Style Citation Quick Guide. For Name-Year method, you will insert the author(s) and year of publication in parentheses within the sentence in which you are citing the material.

In-Text Examples

1 Author (Wayne 2024)
2 Authors (Wayne and Grayson 2024)
3+ Authors (Wayne et al 2024)
Organization as Author (ALA 2022)

Author Unkown- Use the first word or two of the title followed by "..."

(enough to distinguish it from others)

(Health equity ... 2020)
Date Unknown (Wayne [date unknown])