ASA Style Guide
ASA American Sociological Association, 2nd edition. Call Number: Ref HM73 .A54 1997. Available at 1st floor - Ready Reference.
BOOK
BOOK by ONE author
Marconi, Joe. 1997. Shock Marketing: Advertising, Influence and Family Values. Chicago, IL: Bonus Books.BOOK by TWO or MORE authors
Comstock, George A., and Erica Scharrer. 1999. Television: What's On, Who's Watching, and What it Means. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.Marquart, James W., Sheldon Ekland Olson, and Jonathan R. Sorensen. 1994. The Rope, the Chair, and the Needle: Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923-1990. Austin: University of Texas Press.
BOOK NO author
The Chicago Manual of Style. 2003. 15th ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.ANTHOLOGY or a COMPILATION
Lopate, Phillip, ed. 1996. The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present. New York: Anchor-Doubleday.Sevillano, Mando, comp. 1986. The Hopi Way: Tales from a Vanishing Culture. Flagstaff: Northland.
CHAPTER in BOOK
Langan, Fran and Raymond S. Hayes. 1997. "Proneness of Delinquency." Pp. 333-354 in Treatment and Prevention of Delinquency: A Resource Manual, edited by Barry L. Spriggs. La Plume, PA: Keystone Press, Inc.BOOK by ASSOCIATION/CORPORATE as author
British Medical Association. 1992. Our Genetic Future: The Science and Ethics of Genetic Technology. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.American Medical Association. 1989. The American Medical Association Encyclopedia of Medicine. Ed. Charles B. Clayman. New York: Random.
EDITED BOOK
Clausen, John A. 1972. “The Life Course of Individuals.” Pp. 457-514 in Aging and Society, vol. 3, A Sociology of Age Stratification, edited by M. W. Rile, M. Johnson, and A. Foner. New York: Russell Sage.Erwin K. Thomas, and Brown H. Carpenter, eds. 1994. Handbook on Mass Media in the United States: The Industry and its Audiences. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
ARTICLE in PRINT REFERENCE source
“Mandarin.” 1997. The Encyclopedia Americana. Danbury, CT: Grolier Inc.Hartley, William. 2000. “Knoxville Campaign.” Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History. Eds. David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler. 5 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
GOVERNMENT source
U.S. Bureau of the Census. 1960. Characteristics of Population. Vol. 1. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.United States. Cong. Senate. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments of the Committee on the Judiciary. 1970. Hearings on the “Equal Rights” Amendment. 91st Cong., 2nd sess. S. Res. 61. Washington: GPO.
ARTICLES
JOURNAL ARTICLES – ONE author
Larson, Mary S. 2003. “Gender, Race, and Aggression in Television Commercials That Feature Children.” Sex Roles 48: 67-75.JOURNAL ARTICLES – TWO or MORE authors
McElroy, Heather, Deborah Belknap, Carol Fontana, and Fran Langan. 1999. "Making it at the Top: Women and Minority Faculty in the Academic Labor Market." American Behavioral Scientist 27: 301-324.Pine, Karen J. and Avril Nash. 2002. “Dear Santa: The Effects of Television Advertising on Young Children.” International Journal of Behavioral Development 26: 529-539.
ARTICLES (continued)
MAGAZINE ARTICLE
McElroy, Heather. 2000. "Preventing Culture Clashes - As The Workforce Grows More Diverse, Managers must Improve Cultural Awareness." InfoWorld, April 24, 95.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
Revkin, Andrew C. 2003. “Warming is Found to Disrupt Species.” New York Times, January 2, late ed.: A1+.Spriggs, Barry L. 2000. "Are You A Deviant?" Los Angeles Times, April 26, A13.
INTERNET/ELECTRONIC
COMMERCIAL DATABASES
Graham, Lorie M. 1999. "The Past Never Vanishes: A Contextual Critique of the Existing Indian Family Doctrine." American Indian Law Review, 23:1 (25,792 words). Retrieved November 4, 2004. Available: LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe, Law Reviews.Xiaogang, Wu and Donald J. Treiman. 2004. “The Household Registration System and Social Stratification in China: 1955-1996.” Demography, 41:363 (22 pages). Retrieved November 4, 2004. Available: EBSCO Academic Search Premier.
WEB VERSION of NEWSPAPERS
Hayes, Ray. 2000. "Protesters Removed Without Incident." The Scranton Times, May 5. Retrieved October 5, 2000 (http://www.scrantontimes.com/news/nation/updates/hays 000505.htm).WEB BASED JOURNALS
Smith, Herman W. and Takako Nomi. 2000. “Is Amae the Key to Understanding Japanese Culture?” Electronic Journal of Sociology 5:1. Retrieved November 4, 2004 (http://www.sociology.org/content/vol005.001/smith-nomi.html).INFORMATION POSTED on a WEB SITE
"Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Workshop." 2000. American Sociological Association. Retrieved November 4, 2004 (http://www.asanet.org/members/socwkshp.html).For additional information on citing other types of sources refer to the ASA American Sociological Association, 2nd edition. Available at 1st floor reference desk.
Citations In Text:
Basic form for citations in the text include the last name of the author(s) and year of publication. Include page number when you quote directly from the work or refer to specific passages.
· If author’s name is in the text, follow it with the publication year in parentheses:
When Hayes (1997) studied…
· If the author’s name is not in the text, enclose the last name and year in parentheses:
When the study was completed…(Smith 1994)
· If the page number is to be included it follows the year of publication after a colon:
…Jones (1996:16)
· For three authors, cite all last names in the first citation in the text; thereafter, use “et al.” in the citation. If a work as more than three authors, use “et al.” in the first citation and in all subsequent citations.
(Spriggs, Belknap and Hayes 2000)
(Fontana et al. 1999)
· Quotations in the text must begin and end with quotation marks; the citation follows the end quote mark and precedes the period.
"In 1999, however, the crime rates for the Index I Offenses rose by 2.5 percent" (Langan, 1999:47).