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Style and Reference Guide for Undergraduate Essays

Department of Sociology, Queen's University
Written and compiled by Christina Salavantis 2010
CONTENTS
1. Basic Layout and Cover Pages
2. In-Text References (Embedded Citations)
Three ways to embed citations
Other citation rules including punctuation
3. Miscellaneous Style and Grammar Matters
Referencing Problems
Evidence versus Example
Interviews
Avoid Vague, Unfocused Thesis Statements
Footnotes
Paragraphs
Quotations
Avoid Wordiness
Avoid Sweeping Assumptions
Language
Using Numbers
Active Voice
Subject-Verb Agreement
4. What is a Social Theory? What Is Not?
5. Assignments
Submitting essays
Plagiarism
6. References/Works Cited (Bibliography)
Example citations for different sources
The following style and reference guide is based on the American Sociological Association Style Guide (4th Edition). A
copy of the ASA Style Guide is available on reserve in the Stauffer Library.

https://qcat.library.queensu.ca/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=3551711
While this style and reference guide follows the ASA Style Guide on most points, we have introduced some minor but
important differences for the purposes of undergraduate essays in the Queen's Department of Sociology. You should read
through this guide before you begin to write your essay and refer to it when referencing ideas, paraphrasing, or making
direct quotations.
Queen's offers you the opportunity to access a web-based bibliographic management tool (often called a "citation
manager") called "RefWorks" (http://library.queensu.ca/help/refworks) through the Queen's Library. If you use this
system, or any other bibliographic management tool, you must ensure that it will create an ASA style list of references at
the end of your essay and always compare it to the guide and check for errors.

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1. Basic Page Layout

Type your essay in 12-point Times New Roman font

Double space the text and use left-justified style
Pages should be numbered consecutively (not including the title page) and placed in the top right-hand
corner of each page as a number only (not as page one, for example).
To prevent Word from numbering your title page: Insert - page number - top of page (right corner) - format page number- start at 0

One-inch margins top, bottom, and sides; write to the page limit specified in the assignment. Word
counts were invented before word processors, they measure only large words and you should get about
250 per 8.5 x 11 page. Therefore always write to the specified page limit.
Student papers do not need spaces between each paragraph, and paragraphs should be indented

Remove extra spaces between paragraphs in Word:

Home tab Paragraph box Line and
Paragraph Spacing Remove Space Before/After Paragraph

Cover Pages
Essays are to be stapled in the left-hand corner. NO COVERS, plastic or paper.
Title (titles must be real titles, not things such as Essay # one)
In the bottom right hand corner should be:
Your student number. (You are not required to place your name on assignments, but it helps.) Make
sure your student number is correct!
The professors name and TAs name
The course (tutorial day and time if applicable)
The date
Do not repeat any of this information in the body of the essay. There is no need to repeat the title on the first
page of your essay, even though the formal ASA publication guide says you should.

2. In-Text References (Embedded Citations)

Essays must reference all quoted and paraphrased material within the text as it appears and have a list of
references at the end or they will not be marked. The author-date system (ASA style) is used for in-text
references.
There are three acceptable ways to do textual references in ASA style:
1. According to Howell (1993), the divorce rates can be explained by social (34).
2. The divorce rate can be explained by social(Howell 1993:34).
3. According to Howell (1993:34), the divorce rates can be explained by social ...
Avoid placing citations in the middle of sentences. Arrange your words so that the citations come at the
beginning (e.g., Howell (1993) explains the divorce rate) or the end of the sentence. Note that the
punctuation always comes after the bracket, but the quotation marks for a quote occur before the
bracket, e.g., Sentence you are quoting (Smith 1980:24).

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(ASA has given up the long-standing practice of putting commas after the authors name in the in-text
citations.) Note there is no P. for page in these citations.
ASA style guides state that page numbers are used only when directly quoting from the work or referring to
specific passages. For first year students, we request that students always include the page numbers, even for
their paraphrased material, while upper year students can follow the official ASA guidelines.
If the work you are using is online HTML and has no page numbers, you can go with simple (author date) or
(author date: N.P.) N.P. stands for no page. However, most PDF files will have the proper page numbers for
online material, especially journal articles.

More Rules
If the authors name is in the text, follow it with the publication year in parentheses: Thomson and Biers
(1995) debated the issue...
If the authors name is not in the text, enclose the last name and year in parentheses: Suburban growth has
slowed (Paulan 1989:45-60).
If the page number is to be included it follows the year of publication after a colon: Braverman (1992:147)
writes that...
If the information is cited from more than one source by the same author, enclose the years of
publication, separated by a comma, in parentheses: Dingwall (1951, 1958) suggests...

If the information is cited from more than one source by the same author published in the same year,
distinguish them by using letters, e.g., (Trigger 1968a:78).
If a work cited was reprinted from a version published earlier, list the earliest publication date in brackets,
followed by the publication date of the recent version used: Veblen ([1899] 1979) stated that
When citing two different authors with the same last name, use identifying initials, as in (L.
Beard 1988).
When you cite more than one source, alphabetize citations by authors last names within
parentheses and separate with a semi-colon, as follows: ... to parallel the rise and fall of working
class militancy (Andersen 1987; Leaky 1977; Vintner and Parks 1991).
If you wish to cite a study referred to in the source you are using and you have not read the original
yourself, you can note it as follows: (McNeil cited in Hamilton 1996:23). This indicates that you are reading
Hamilton and she is citing McNeil on page 23 of her book. This is the most common question first year
students ask therefore it is highlighted in RED!
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In citations with three authors, all authors' last names should be listed the first time the reference is
cited, but thereafter substitute et al. for the second and third authors names. First citation: (Smith,
Garcia and Lee 1954); subsequent citations: (Smith et al. 1954).
In the first in-text citation of sources with four or more authors, use the first author's last name and
the words et al., as in (Parker et al. 1995). List all names only when et al. would cause confusion.
For unpublished materials, use forthcoming to indicate material scheduled for publication. For
dissertations and unpublished papers, cite the date: (Smith, forthcoming 2011).
For institutional authorship, supply minimum identification from the beginning of the reference
item, as in (Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans 1991:98).
Ampersands (&) should not be used as a substitute for "and" in citations and references.
Use of ibid.
The use of (ibid.) is encouraged when you are citing the same author many times in the same
paragraph. The first time you give the citation in full (Jones 1998:23). The subsequent times you
may say (ibid.) or if the page number changes (ibid:24). Ibid. refers to the previous reference, so
any time a different authors citation is used you must start the process all over again.

2. Miscellaneous Style and Grammar Matters

Referencing Concerns
Do not cite your professor, teaching assistant, or high school teachers. These are not considered research
sources. Furthermore, a research paper requires effort and use of the library. It is NOT acceptable to have only
open web based sources in your reference page. Never use Wikipedia, and only use Google Scholar as a last
resort. However, online peer reviewed journals found on the library subscription platforms are acceptable
online sources. Abstracts do not count as articles for the purpose of your research essays; you must find the
actual article. Book reviews are also not appropriate research sources, although you may choose to find the book
being reviewed. Using the web to do research can be helpful, but you must take care that the web-based sources
you use are legitimate. Use only reputable organizations and take note of the fact that many organizations online
will have a very clear political position that they are supporting. While students are encouraged to use sociology
encyclopedias and dictionaries to help them understand their topics students are encouraged to move away from
this type of reference material when citing in their essays. It is important to attempt to define your terms based
on the sources you are using rather than a dictionary definition. The Annual Review of Sociology is a helpful
journal for picking essay topics but note that these are large overarching literature reviews and you will have to
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Evidence versus Example
All forms of journalism including newspapers, magazines, blogs, investigative TV shows, music, etc. are all
useful ways to find examples of the issues you may be discussing in your paper. They do not, however,
constitute evidence. Pop culture is not considered academic evidence; it is only used as example.
Interviews
Conducting interviews is not permissible without an ethics review process and this will not be granted to first
year students. If you want to incorporate material of this nature it must be stated as personal experience. You
may not quote other students and you should not be asking other people questions without going through the
ethics review process.
Avoid Vague, Unfocused Thesis Statements
A vague thesis statement often results in a paper that is unfocused and never reaches meaningful conclusions.
You should avoid putting issues in the thesis statement that are never followed up on, and avoid putting issues
in the paper that are not accounted for in the thesis statement. The thesis statement is the most important and
difficult piece of writing. Your thesis paragraph sets up a contract between you and your reader and should
indicate the specific issues(s) that will be analyzed in the paper (i.e., what is to be argued) and the direction that
the essay will take (i.e., how it will be argued). You should endeavour to answer the question So what? What
is the social significance of the issue at hand? A thesis statement is not the same thing as a topic. A topic is
broad and a thesis is very specific. Please consult the Writing Centre web page under the Writing Resources
Handouts tabs for more information on proper thesis construction.
Ask yourself these questions:
Does the thesis indicate a specific problem or question?
Is the thesis sufficiently developed?
Does the thesis offer an evaluation?
Is the thesis arguable? Is it too broad or too narrow?
Is the thesis too obvious or too obscure?
Is the thesis clearly expressed?
A thesis is:
NOT a description (This essay will discuss the wage gap and the way it affects Canadian women .)
NOT a statement that is self-evident (Understanding the wage gap is important )
NOT a statement of fact (The wage gap continues to affect women in the Canadian workforce )
NOT a question (Does the wage gap still exist in todays Canadian workforce?)
NOT a matter of personal opinion or preference that cannot be argued against (Men have had their share
of the pie long enough )
NOT a broad generalization (Men are from Mars; women are from Venus )

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Footnotes
If you use footnotes, their purpose is to discuss any matter, which cannot appear in the text without constituting
a digression. Where the footnotes purpose is documentation, the reference must be sufficiently full that an
interested reader can go with complete certainty to the same place in the same source to check the accuracy and
fullness of the reference. A footnote to text material is shown by a superscript number or figure, which should
follow a word or sentence to which it pertains. It follows the word without a space, but comes after the
punctuation marks. Footnotes are to be numbered consecutively. The separation between the footnotes and the
body of the text should be marked by a line across the page. Each footnote takes paragraph indentation and
should be single spaced.
Paragraphs
Paragraphs should be at least three lines long and have a beginning, a middle, and an end with a point clearly
made somewhere in them. You need smooth transitions between paragraphs. Paragraph transitions technically
occur at the beginning of the new paragraph, not at the end of the old one. Relate paragraphs to each other
through introductory and (if needed) concluding sentences. Avoid dealing with too many ideas in one
paragraph. Hence, break up long paragraphs (most paragraphs should be less than half a page in length). Do not
introduce new ideas or information in your concluding paragraph. Use your conclusion to reiterate your thesis
and sum up. You must move beyond the five paragraph hamburger essay model that you used in high school.
Essays will contain as many points and as many paragraphs as are needed to address an issue.
Quotations
Quotations that would exceed four lines in the regular text should be offset from the rest of the text, singlespaced. (We realize some style guides say double spaced, but we dont want you to do that) with no
quotation marks and indented on the left side only. For example, you might write the following:
In his essay on Objectivity in Social Science and Social Policy, Weber (1949:54) argued:
An empirical science cannot tell anyone what he should do but rather what he can do and
under certain circumstances what he wishes to do. It is true that in our sciences, personal
value-judgments have tended to influence scientific arguments without being explicitly
admitted.
Suspending ones personal value judgments when writing an essay is crucial to the sociological enterprise, and
students should avoid the error of letting them slip into their arguments.
NOTE: Some formal guides close offset quotes with a period and then follow that punctuation with the citation
(Jones 1983:23). closing with another period! We see no logic to this format. No sentence should be
punctuated with two periods.
Regular quotations are integrated into the sentence and do use quotation marks, as in the following:
Weber (1949:54) argued that in our sciences, personal value-judgments have tended to influence scientific
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Use single quotation marks only for noting quotations within a quote. For example you might write the
following:
Weber (1949:60) also emphasized that the journal has not been a socialist organ hitherto and in the future it
shall not be bourgeois.
Refrain from using quotations at the end of paragraphs. It is better to sum up your point in your own words.
Quotations do not stand alone on merit: you must tell the reader what is important about the quotation or sum up
the point. Otherwise, the quote just seems dropped in to take up space. If the quotation starts with a capital
letter, then a colon is used, e.g., She states: When. If the quotation it is not capitalized, then a comma is
used, e.g., She states, when
Avoid Wordiness
Keep things simple and to the point. Dont repeat yourself and dont throw in extra descriptions in front of
peoples names like the renowned writer Weber unless it is important to your point. Dont cite entire book
titles in the essay; that is why there is a reference list at the end of your paper.
Avoid Sweeping Assumptions
Refrain from ahistorical or sweeping assumptions that you cannot prove or worse yet can be easily disproved,
such as for all of time, or throughout history, or since the beginning. Always use qualifying words to be
safe, such as some, many, most. Any student who starts their paper with any of these above dreaded
fallacies is going to cause despair in the grader, remember you are not in high school anymore!
Language
1. Canadian spelling is required, e.g., colour, not color. Change the spellchecker language in your
computer to English (Canada).
2. Use complete clear sentences. Watch verb tense and grammar.
3. Be aware of the difference between there and their, to and too, and then and than. Its is not
possessive! It is a contraction that stands for it is.
4. 1990s. NOT 1990s. The apostrophe makes it possessive. Only use it when you mean the date to be
possessive.
5. Avoid gender specific language unless you mean to be gender specific.
6. Dont use big words when small ones will do.
7. Be careful with that thesaurus: make sure the words you choose capture the intended meaning.
8. Colloquial terms are not used in formal writing, e.g., to hell in a hand basket, the rat race.
9. Keep an academic tone. Contractions are not used in formal writing. Avoid writing the way you talk.
10. When using an acronym, spell out the complete term the first time you use it and present the
acronym in parentheses: First use: The Current Population Survey (CPS) includes . . . .
Later: CPS data show that . . .
11. Racial/ethnic names that represent geographical locations or linguistic groups should be
capitalized. For example, Asian, African Canadian, Caucasian, Indo Canadian. The words black
and white are not capitalized.
12. Type only one space after punctuation and do not use periods in acronyms like NAFTA (not
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13. Italics should be used for book titles in the text and in the list of references and for obscure foreign
language words. Commonly used foreign words or terms, however, should appear in regular type.
Examples are per se, ad hoc, and et al.
14. Do not abbreviate the names of institutions or peoples rank or title unless it is Dr.

Using Numbers
Spell out numbers one through nine. Use numerals for numbers 10 or greater. Always spell out numbers
at the beginning of a sentence. Always use numerals for tables and figures. Spell out centuries. Spell out
common fractions. Always use numerals with percents. Numerals are always used to represent time and
money.
Active Voice
The active voice is more precise and less wordy. The subject of an active sentence tells the reader who
did something. For example: A team of 14 trained interviewers queried 350 college graduates. A passive
construction would read: Three hundred fifty college graduates were queried. Always try to write in the
active voice.
Subject-Verb Agreement and Number Agreement
The subject of a sentence must agree in number with the verb regardless of the words or phrases that
come between them. If you use the word woman the verb must be singular. It is very common to see
students write woman are which makes no sense. The word data is plural and takes a plural verb as in
the data as reported are correct.

4. What is a Social Theory? What is not?

MODEL: A model is a temporarily useful way of seeing. A model is a way of organizing a set of recognizable
facts in such a way as to describe social reality at least for a time or for a specific purpose. It treats some facts
as relevant and others as anomalies or irrelevancies. Models provide an immediate image of something that has
been identified from experience. Parsons model of the structurally isolated nuclear family would be an
example. A model is not a theory, although it may be a starting point for the construction of a conceptual
framework.
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK: Conceptual frameworks provide key concepts used for analyzing and
communicating about the observations represented in a model. It sets out the basic abstract building blocks that
might be used in the construction of a theory but in and of itself does not constitute a theory. They can be
thought of as theoretical perspectives that suggest the kinds of questions we should ask, direct our attention to
certain events, and they help interpret what we observe. For example, an anti-racist conceptual framework
would focus on colonialism and imperialism as key concepts for framing analyses around race.
THEORY: A theory is a set of systematic abstract statements based upon the subsumption of observable
phenomena within a conceptual framework which attempts to provide an EXPLANATION that includes a
description of how social reality works and an understanding of why it works the way it does. The worth of
theory lies in its ability to EXPLAIN the facts, not just to describe them. The more facts a theory seems to
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the logic of the explanation (parsimony), the specificity of the concepts and propositions (discriminability), and
the testability the extent to which the assertions of the theory can be disconfirmed by evidence.
A theory at a macro level of analysis is a theory that purports to describe and explain the way whole societies
function, often in terms of the effect of the economy on all other aspects of the society.
A theory at a micro level of analysis is a theory that purports to describe and explain small-scale interactions
amongst two or more persons, such as the internal dynamics of family.
There are a whole range of levels of analysis between macro and micro. R. Merton referred to these as theories
of the middle range as they attempt to explain social relations in particular sorts of social institutions such as
bureaucracies. Max Weber is a good example of a major sociologist who theorized at this middle range.
Some theories you cannot categorize in this way as they attempt to integrate macro and micro level
considerations.

Ideology vs. Theory

An IDEOLOGY is a comprehensive world view that may or may not be true and is not the only way of
viewing the world. Ideologies emerge from material realities but also help to construct material realities and
often function as a system of social control. Ideologies will give broad answers to questions of social meaning
including What is right / wrong? Who/what is responsible (what is the cause of the problem)? and what can be
done about it (what changes are needed)?
Alternatively, a theory aims to explain social relations (What/ How/ Why) based on evidence. Theories must be
tested against evidence, whereas ideologies may stand relatively unexamined unconscious and untested.
Sociological theory is dependent for its validity upon evidence which is examined both historically
(diachronically) and cross-culturally (synchronically). Theory can be a guide to what is researched. There is a
dialectical (dynamic tension) between theory and evidence as they will impact each other and change each
other. All theory contains ideological elements; implications about what is right or wrong and about what can be
changed. Critical analysts should tease out and address these hidden implications of particular theories and
show what the consequences may be.
Include Theoretical Depth
It is very important in sociology that you not rely on commonsensical notions, perceptions or opinions.
Sociology is not common sense. Support your ideas with material from the literature. When doing
sociological research, you do not enter the library to attempt to prove a point you have in your head. You enter
the library to read some of the scholarship on a topic and then develop your argument from there. Use specific
examples to illustrate points and concepts. Demonstrate your assertions. Sociologists analyze and explain, they
dont just describe. It is the social theories that will help you to explain your topic. A theoretical perspective is a
point of view on an issue, and everyone has one.
Students have a tendency to write about theories in one separate paragraph as if they had nothing to do with the
rest of the argument in the paper. Avoid doing this. Sociology students writing argumentative essays write from
a theoretical position not about theoretical positions. Theories do not cause the event you are looking at. Rather,
they attempt to explain it. Therefore avoid sentences that say such things as Due to Social Learning theory,
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children do better when The theory is not the cause of whatever you are discussing. The better your use of
theory, the more solid your argument will be, and ultimately the better your paper will be as it will be more
coherent.
Methodological Errors
Methodological individualism: Inferring properties of social relations from properties of individual persons.
Sometimes theories at the micro level claim to be self-sufficient generalizations about the whole of human
nature. For example, socio-biologists explain male-female relations in terms of biological parental investment.
This is criticized by many sociologists as REDUCTIONIST, because it seems to reduce generalizations about
the whole of societies to generalizations about the behaviour of individuals. This form of reasoning is also
described as ESSENTIALIST and is said to represent the problem of methodological individualism.
Reification: The fallacy of misplaced concreteness: treating that which is abstract (e.g., society) as though it
were concrete (e.g., society needs to work harder to fix inequality). Society is a thing, not an agent. Reification
means to make concrete that, which is abstract. When you start sentences with phrases such as society thinks,
cultures have views, and institutions force, what you are doing is giving those non-human things human
qualities. Institutions cannot force: only people force. You need to be specific about who does these things.
Medical professionals have opinions, medicine does not. When you reify, you are really making a functionalist
statement that implies that everyone in society has the same values, thus denying that people with differing
views are part of society. If society makes women feel fat, where does that leave all the people who would not
make women feel fat? The question is: who or what processes result in women feeling fat? Think carefully
about your word choice.

5. Assignments
ANSWER THE QUESTION! Maintain a balance in your essay sections. Each component of the question to
be answered should hold equal weight. Incorporate recent publications into your references. Do not say,
Today we think if your source is not recent! Qualify your use of old sources. Explain sociological
concepts never assume the marker knows what you are talking about. Follow the instructions exactly.
Submitting Essays
Essays are typically submitted on line through the course web page. However, if you ever miss this opportunity
or have to hand something in late, or you are asked to submit a hard copy, you can hand papers through the
essay slot outside the Sociology main office M-C D431. They will be date stamped and put in the appropriate
mailbox. DO NOT enter the main office and disturb the administrative staff. You are responsible for providing
your own staples and ensuring that all the relevant information is on the front of your paper. Please get your
TAs name correct, as assignments cannot be distributed properly without the TAs name. NEVER slide essays
under any door. If you are not in this sociology class, please ask your instructor where you are to hand in your
papers.
Plagiarism
It is assumed that students have read and are familiar with the universitys policy on academic dishonesty in
the regulations section of the Queen's Faculty of Arts and Science Calendar. The section on plagiarism spells
out what constitutes academic dishonesty with reference to essay writing. This includes:
Submitting as ones own an essay written in whole or in part by someone else.
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Preparing an essay for another student to submit.
Using direct quotations or large sections of paraphrased material without acknowledgement.
There are serious penalties for plagiarism. If you have any doubt about what this means, you should talk to the
professor or your TA.
Note: Please keep copies of all past assignments until you graduate because you may be asked to produce old
assignments if we feel that work has been submitted more than once. Always keep a back-up copy of any essay
you hand in.

6. References/Works Cited (Bibliography)

Your final list of sources, titled References, is an alphabetized list of EVERY source referred to or quoted in
your paper. References are not numbered. These references allow your reader to identify and retrieve the
sources you have cited in your research in order to engage further in the ideas you present in your research.
NOTE: A bibliography is not the same thing as a reference page per se. Bibliographies include sources you
have found helpful, even if you have not directly quoted from or referred to them in your paper. For our
students only materials cited in the text of your essay may go in your reference page at the end of the paper,
everything else will be considered padding.
Reference List Rules

Your references list appears on a separate page at the end of your paper. Number this page sequentially
with the rest of your paper, and centre the word References at the top of it. You do not need to bold,
italicize, or underline this title. All references cited in the text must be listed and vice-versa.
Officially, references should be double-spaced, but this is very hard to read so check with your TA or
instructor for their preference. You will notice that the sample bibliography provided is not double
spaced but a space between each entry is helpful.
Use hanging indention. Type the first line of each reference entry flush to the left margin. Indent all
subsequent lines at least three spaces.
List references in alphabetical order by the authors last name. Invert the authors name. If there are two
or more authors, invert only the first authors name. When no author is given, list the work
alphabetically by title, disregarding "A," "An" or "The." NOTE: The author is not necessarily an
individual, but may be an institution or a committee.
Arrange multiple items by the same author in order by year of publication, earliest year first. Use six
hyphens and a period (------.) in place of the name(s) for repeated authorship.
Distinguish works by the same author in the same year by adding letters (e.g., 1993a, 1993b, 1993c).
Use italics for book and periodical titles (underline if italics are not available).
If no date is available, use "N.d." in place of the date.
Name every author of each reference; "et al." is not acceptable.
Use authors' first names, not first initials, unless only initials appear in the original source.
List the publisher's name as concisely as possible without losing clarity. For example: "Riley"
for "William Riley and Sons."

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Sample Reference List Using American Sociological Association Style

(See The Sociology Student Writer's Manual Fifth Edition by Johnson, Rettig, Scott
and Garrison for more detailed information and entries)
You need Hanging indentation. Here's how:
1. Select all the text you want indented. (CTRL/A will select the entire document.)
2. Right-click in the selection and select Paragraph from the pop-up menu.
3. Set the Special list box to Hanging.
4. Click OK.

BOOKS
Book with One Author Authors last name, first name. date of publication. title in italics. place of publication:
publisher.
Acker, Joan R. 1989. Doing Comparable Worth: Gender, Class, and Pay Equity.
Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
Prus, Robert C. 1996. Symbolic Interaction and Ethnographic Research: Intersubjectivity and the
Study of Human Lived Experience. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

Book with Two Authors (second name not reversed)

Bryk, Anthony and Stephen Raudenbush. 1992. Hierarchical Linear Models for Social
and Behavioral Research: Applications and Data Analysis Methods. New York:
Sage.
Renzetti, Claire M. and Daniel J. Curran. 1998. Living Sociology. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.

Book with Three or More Authors (the use of et al. is not acceptable in references section)
Belsley, David A., Edwin Kuh, and Roy E. Welsch. 1980. Regression Diagnostics:
Identifying Influential Data and Sources of Collinearity. New York: Wiley.

Book, Edited
Turner, Stephen P., ed. 1996. Social Theory and Sociology: The Classics and Beyond.
Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
Leonard, Kimberly Kempf, Carl E. Pope, William H. Feyerherm, eds. 1995. Minorities in Juvenile Justice.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

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Book, Editions
McCullagh, Peter and John A. Nedler.1989. Generalized Linear Models. 2nd ed. London, England: Chapman
and Hall.

Book, Volumes
Gurr, Ted Robert, ed. 1989. Violence in America. Vol. 1, The History of Crime. Newbury Park, CA: Sage
Publications
Book, No Author (listed alphabetically by the first significant word in the title. Do not use "Anonymous. If
you can ascertain the name of the author when it is not formally given in the work itself place the author's name
in brackets)
The Chicago Manual of Style. 2003. 15th ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
[Morey, Cynthia]. 1997. How We Mate: American Dating Customs, 1950-2000. New York: Putney.

Book, Chapter
Author1(last name inverted), Author 2 not inverted and author 3. Date of publication. Title of the article. P.p.
with page numbers in Name of the publication (italicized), edited by editors initials only for first and middle
names and not inverted. Location of publisher: publishers name.
Borjas, George, Richard Freeman, and Lawrence Katz. 1992. On the Labor Market
Effects of Immigration and Trade. Pp. 213-44 in Immigration and the Work
Force, edited by G. Borjas and R. Freeman. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago
Press.

Book, Chapter ( not edited)

Neuman, W. Lawerence. 1994. Qualitative Research Design. Pp. 316-29 in Social
Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. 2nd ed. Boston,
MA: Allyn and Bacon.

Book, Collected Works (Anthology), Article

Sampson, Robert J. 1992. Family Management and Child Development: Insights
from Social Disorganization Theory. Pp. 63-93 in Advances in Criminology Theory,
vol. 3, Facts, Frameworks and Forecasts, edited by J. McCord. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.

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Book, Compilation
Trakas, Dylan, comp. 1998. Making the Road-Ways Safe: Essays on Highway Preservation and Funding.
El Paso, TX: Del Norte Press.
Book, Translated
Stomper, Jean. 2000. Grapes and Rain. Translated by John Picard. New York: Baldock.
Lattimore, Richard, trans. 1951. The Iliad of Homer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Book, Republished
Bernard, Claude. [1865] 1957. An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine. Translated by H.C.
Greene. Reprint, New York: Dover.
Books, Electronic
Last Name, First Name. Year. Title. City, Province. Publisher. Date retrieved (website address).
Torres, Carlos Alberto and Theodore R. Mitchell, eds. 1998. Sociology of Education: Emerging
Perspectives. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. Retrieved April 26, 2005
(http://www.netlibrary.com/).

JOURNAL ARTICLES
NOTE: Volume and issue numbers in journals are often confusing for students. Generally the volume number
comes first and if there is an issue number it comes second. It may look like this: Vol. 24 Is. 3, or V. 24 No.2,
or 24(2). The last form is preferred.
NOTE: The majority of journal articles are now found in on-line form in library subscription data bases, for the
purposes of SOCY 122 it is not necessary for students to record the retrieval date and URL of the article as the
4th edition of the official ASA style guide indicates. However, if the article is retrieved from the open web then
the retrieval date and URL should be provided.

Journal Article, One Author

Author1 (last name inverted). Date of publication.Title of the article. Name of the publication in italics
Volume Number (Issue Number):page numbers of article.
Waldfogel, Jane. 1997. The Effect of Children on Womens Wages. American
Sociological Review 6293):209-17.
Mehdizadeh, Shahla A. 2002. Health and Long-Term Care Use Trajectories of Older Disabled
Women. Gerontologist 42(1):304-13.
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Journal Article, Two Authors

Abrahamson, Mark and Lee Sigelman. 1987. Occupational Sex Segregation in
Metropolitan Areas. American Sociological Review 52(5):588-97.
Schoenberg, Nancy E. and Hege Ravdal. 2000. Using Vignettes in Awareness and Attitudinal
Research. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 3(1):63-74.

Journal Article, Multiple Authors

OReilly, Charles A., David F. Caldwell, and William P. Barnett. 1989. Work Group
Demography, Social Integration, and Turnover. Administrative Science Quarterly 34(2):21-37.

Journal Article, Foreign Language

Wegener, Berndt. 1987. Von Nutzen Entfernter Bekannter (Benefiting from Persons We Barely Know).
Kolner Zitschrift fur soziologie und Sozialpsychologie39:278-301.
Kenny, Martin and Richard Florida. 1998. Response to the Debate over Beyond Madd Production (in
Japanese). Mado 83:120-45.
Journal Article, Open Web (not from Queens library subscription data bases)
Schafer, Daniel W. and Fred L. Ramsey. 2003. "Teaching the Craft of Data Analysis." Journal of Statistics
Education 11(1). Retrieved December 12, 2006
(http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v11n1/schafer.html).
Graham, Lorie M. 1998. The Past Never Vanishes: A Contextual Critique of the Existing Indian
Family Doctrine. American Indian Law Review, 23:1 (32,854 words). Retrieved April 26,
2005 (http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe).

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Article from an open on-line repository for academic papers, such as Academia.edu
(1) Always cite the published version if the cited work is indeed published. (The published version is the archival work; the Open
Access version is merely a means of access to a supplementary version of it. It is not the published work.)
(2) Always give the URL or DOI of the Open Access version for access purposes, along with the citation to the published version.
For more information, please see:
http://eresourcesatbradford.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/how-to-quote-a-paper-found-in-a-repository/

Meinhold Roman. 2009. Popular Culture and Consumerism: Mediocre, (Schein-)Heilig and PseudoTherapeutic. Academia.edu. Retrieved Feb 12, 2013
(http://www.academia.edu/202348/Popular_Culture_and_Consumerism_Mediocre_Schein_Heilig_and_Pseudo-Therapeutic).
Journal Article, Book Review
Saenz, Rogelio. 1990. Review of Migracion en el Occidente de Mexico by Gustavo Lopez Castro.
Contemporary Sociology 19(3):415
Abstracts
Quimby, Ernest. 1993. Obstacles to Reducing AIDS among African Americans. Abstract. The Journal of
Black Psychology 19(2):215-22.

Online Abstract
Howell, Frank M. and William A. Reese. 1986. "Sex and Mobility in the Dual Economy: From Entry to
Midcareer" (Abstract). Work and Occupations 13:77-97. Retrieved 12 March 1998
(http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?RQT=395&SHtm=3&TS=889478198).

PAPERS
Paper, Refereed Forthcoming
McCall, Leslie. Forthcoming. Explaining Within-Group Wage Inequality in U.S. Labor
Markets. Demography.

Paper, Unpublished
Nomiya, Daishiro. 1988. Urbanization and Income Inequality: A Cross- National Study. Department of
Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. Unpublished manuscript.

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Paper, Working
Williamson, Jeffery. 1996. Globalization and Inequality Then and Now: The Late Nineteenth
and Late twentieth Centuries Compared. Working Paper No. 5491. National Bureau of Economic
Research, Cambridge, MA.
Stephenson, Stanley P., Jr. 1980. In-School Work and Early Post-School Labor Market
Dynamics. Working paper, Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State
University, State College, PA.

Paper, Conference
Mishel, Lawrence and Jared Bernstein. 1996. Technology and the Wage Structure: Has
Technologys Impact Accelerated since the 1970s? Paper presented at the NBER
Labor Studies Workshop, July, Cambridge, MA.
Mortimer, Jeylan T., Michael Finch, Timothy J. Owens, Michael Shanahan, and Michael
Kemper. 1989. The Nature and Correlates of Early Adolescent Work
Experiences. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American
Sociological Association, August, San Francisco, CA.

Paper, Discussion
Sorensen, Aage B. 1983. Processes of Allocation to Open and Closed Positions in Social Structure.
Discussion Paper No. 722-83, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

Paper, Presented
Zerubavel, Eviatar.1978. The Benedictine Ethic and the Spirit of Scheduling. Presented at the annual meeting
of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations, April 22, Milwaukee, WI.

OTHER SOURCE TYPES

Newspaper Article
Rimland, Bernard. 2000. Do childrens shots invite autism? Los Angeles Times, April 26, A13.
Snyder, Donna. 1999. Judge Orders Teens Hearing in Murder Case to Be Closed. Buffalo
News, May18, 1B.

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Web Version of Newspapers

Clary, Mike. 2000. Vieques Protesters Removed without Incident. Los Angeles Times,
May 5. Retrieved May 5, 2000 (http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/updates/lat_vieques000505.htm).
Blank, Rebecca M. 2008. How We Measure Poverty. Los Angeles Times, September 15.
Retrieved January 7, 2009 (http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/
commentary/la-oe-blank15-2008sep15,0,7811609.story).

Magazine Article
Jana, Reena. 2000. Preventing culture clashes As the IT workforce grows more diverse,
managers must improve awareness without creating inconsistency. InfoWorld, April 24, pp. 95.
Gibbs, Nancy. 1999. Noon in the Garden of Good and Evil: The Tragedy at Columbine Began
As a Crime Story but Is Becoming a Parable. Time, May 17, 153:54.

Brochure or Pamphlet
Writing: The Goal Is Variety (4th ed.) [Brochure]. Hartford, CT: Author.
Treat pamphlets created by corporate authors in the same way you would treat an entire book written by a
corporate author. Do not forget to identify your resource as [Brochure] or [Pamphlet] within brackets.

Reports, Bulletins, Fact Sheets and Newsletters

Report, No Author
U.S. Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics. 2010. Key Facts at a Glance: Imprisonment Rates.
Retrieved July 14, 2010 (http:// www.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/glance/incrt.cfm).

Report, Author
Catalano, Shannan M. 2006. National Crime Victimization Survey: Criminal Victimization, 2005. Bureau of
Justice Statistics: Bulletin. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice. Retrieved July 10, 2010
(http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/content/pub/pdf/cv05.pdf).

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Newsletter, No Author
American Sociological Association. 2004. Public Affairs Update: Concerned Scientists Say Bush
Administration Ignores Research Footnotes, April. Retrieved July 10,2010
(http://www2.asanet.org/footnotes/apr04/publicaffairs).

Dissertations and Theses

Valencia, Albert. 1995. An examination of selected characteristics of Mexican-American battered
women and implications for service providers. PH.D. dissertation, Department of Education, University
of the Pacific, Stockton, CA.

Data Set/Machine-Readable Data Files

Treiman, Donald J., ed. 1994. Social Stratification in Eastern Europe after 1989:
General Population Survey. Provisional Codebook (December 7, 1994) [MRDF].
Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Institute for Social Science Research, Social Science
Data Archive [distributor].
U.S. Census Bureau. 1996. Statistical Abstracts of the United States, 1995.
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Commerce.
Government Publication Individual Author(s)
Romaniuc, Anatol. 1984. Fertility in Canada: From Baby-Boom to Baby Bust. Cat. no. 91- 524E. Ottawa, ON:
Statistics Canada.

Government Publication Group or Organization as Author

Canada. Department of Indian and Northern Affairs. 1982. Outstanding Business: A Native Claims Policy. Ottawa,
ON: Ministry of Supply and Services.

Specific Tables in a Government Report or Census Report

U.S. Census Bureau. 1943. U.S. Census of the Population: 1960. Employment and
Personal Characteristics. Table 26. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
U.S. Census Bureau. 1956. U.S. Census of the Population: 1950. Vol. 4, Special
Reports: Occupational Characteristics. Table 1. Washington, DC: U.S.
Government Printing Office.

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Government Report or Report by a Professional Association
Freeman, Richard, ed. 1997. When Earnings Diverge: Causes, Consequences, and
Curses for the New Inequality in the U.S. Report #284, National Planning
Association, Washington, DC.
W.T. Grant Foundation. 1988. The Forgotten Half: Pathways to Success for Americas
Youth and Young Families. Washington, DC: Youth and Americas Future, William T. Grant
Commission on Work, Family and Citizenship.

Census Data
Example from the 96 Census:
Statistics Canada. 1996 Census of Canada. Profile data. Ottawa, Canada. [Data obtained from PCensus Soft
wear, Tetrad Computer Applications, Vancouver, B.C.].
Depending on your needs, you could include more detail in the citation e.g., the level of geography:
Census of Canada. Profile Data for Kingston at the census Tract Level. Ottawa..

Spreadsheets
Scientists and engineers Statistical Data System (SESTAT). 2006. Table B-1: U.S. Scientists and Engineers,
by Detailed Field and Level of Highest Degree Attained: 1999. Retrieved July 10, 2010
(http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/us-workforce/1999/tables/TableB1.pdf).

Survey Instrument
National Science Foundation. 2006. 2006 Survey of Doctorate Recipients. Arlington, VA: national Science
Foundation. Retrieved July 10, 2010 (http://....).

Archival Sources
National Archives, Box 133. 1991. File: State and Local Information, September-October 1990. Letter from
Vice President of the National Association for the Advancement of Learning Disabled People to
William Wondra.
George Meany Memorial Archives, Legislature Reference Files, Box 6. March 18, 1970. File: 20. Memo,
Conference with Gloster Current, Director of Organization, national Association for the Advancement of
Colored People.

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Information Posted on Web pages
Including Academia.edu which is an open on-line repository for academic papers.
American Sociological Association. 2000. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Workshop. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association. Retrieved May 5, 2000
(http://www.asanet.org/members/socwkshp.html).
Meinhold Roman. 2009. Popular Culture and Consumerism: Mediocre, (Schein-)Heilig and PseudoTherapeutic. Academia.edu. Retrieved Feb 12, 2013
(http://www.academia.edu/202348/Popular_Culture_and_Consumerism_Mediocre_Schein_Heilig_and_Pseudo-Therapeutic).
Social Science Information Gateway: Sociology. 2005. University of Surrey. Retrieved April 27,
2005 (http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/sociology/).
Statistical Resources on the Web: Sociology. 2002. University of Michigan Documents Center.
Retrieved April 26, 2005 (http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stsoc.html).

Email Citation
If emails are referred to in an essay they, like other personal communication, should be entered as part of the
text and referenced in a footnote. Emails are rarely cited in a reference list. When referring to communication
by email obtain the permission of the owner before using it and do not cite the email address.
Example Text: In an email message to the author, Jones indicated that he was leaving the university.
Footnote: number superscript John Jones, email message to author May 19 2010.

Blogs
Citing a blog in the text requires the authors last name and date (DeLong 2007). In the reference section:
Delong, Brad. 2007. Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez Give Their Current View on American Income
Inequality. The Brad Delong Blog, January 7, 2007. Retrieved January 9, 2007
(http://econ161.berkeley.edu/movable_type).

Religious Texts
If you need to cite religious texts such as the Bible for illustration or example purposes in your essay please see
the citation practice for this in the MLA or APA on-line guide on the web. Remember religious texts are not
peer reviewed and cannot stand as evidence in a sociology paper.

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Lecture Note Citation
Beamish, Rob. 2010. Class lecture. September 22. Queens University, Kingston, ON.

Various Examples of Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

For print copy of an encyclopedia entry:
Last name of the author of the entry, first name. Date of publication. title of the entry. Pp. of the entry in Title
of the Encyclopedia, edited by first initial last name of editor. Place of publication: Publisher.
Beamish, Rob. 2011. Sport and Capitalism. Pp. 607-608. in The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited
by G. Ritzer and M. Ryan. Malden MA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Examples of on line versions of Encyclopedias

Cronin, Ann. "Socialist Feminism." Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Ritzer, George (ed). Blackwell
Publishing, 2007. Blackwell Reference Online. 15 November 2010
<http://www.blackwellreference.com/subscriber/tocnode?id=g9781405124331_chunk_g978140512433125
_ss1-190>
Encyclopedia of American Social History. Edited by Mary Kupiec Cayton, Elliott J. Gorn, and Peter W.
Williams. New York : Scribner ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell
Macmillan International, c1993.

Dictionary of Sociology. By Tony Lawson and Joan Garrod. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.
Sociology Dictionary [ Online ] Iverson Software, Incorporated. Available:
http://www.webref.org/sociology/sociology.htm (Accessed 10 January 2005)

Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources. [ Online ] Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger.
Available: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/ (Accessed 7 April 2006).

ASA Format. [ Online ] Romelia Salinas, California State University, Los Angeles. Available:
http://www.calstatela.edu/library/bi/rsalina/asa.styleguide.html (Accessed 7 April 2006)

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NON - PRINT MEDIA

YouTube Video
Jack Danyells. 2007. "TheTitle of the Video" YouTube Web site. Retrieved February 2, 2007
(URL www.sooedfjhi#$%2).

Podcast
National Academics. 2010. National Getting Better Health Care for Your Buck. Audio Podcast. Retrieved
June 4, 2010 (Http://media.nap.edu/podcasts/).

DVD
Blackside [Producer]. 2009. Eyes on the Prize: Americas Civil Rights Years 1954-1965 (Season 1). DVD.

Film
Redford, R. (Director). (1980). Ordinary People [Film]. Paramount.
Film of limited circulation
Holdt, D. (Producer), & Ehlers, E. (Director). (1997). River at High Summer: The St. Lawrence [Film].
(Available from Merganser Films, Inc., 61 Woodland Street, Room 134, Hartford, CT 06105)
Cassette
Lake, F. L. (Author and speaker). (1989). Bias And Organizational Decision Making [Cassette]. Gainesville:
Edwards.

Musical recording
Barber, S. (1995). Cello Sonata. On Barber [CD]. New York: EMI Records Ltd.

TV
Title of program. (transmission date) Net Work.

CD-Rom
Author (if known, last name first). CD-Rom Title. year(s). CD-ROM: Publisher. (Date you last accessed the
database).

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Power Point
Cheng, Yin Cheong. 2008. Reform Syndrome and Educational research in the Asia-Pacific region. Presented
at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, March 28, New York City.
Retrieved June 5th, 2010 (Http://www.weraonline.org/).
Speech
I found this information on Google for MLA style and just put the date after the author which is the convention in ASA.

Speaker. Date of presentation. Title of the Speech. Meeting Name. Location of the Meeting. Type of
Presentation.
Angelou, Maya. Jan. 19th 1993. "On the Pulse of Morning. Inauguration of President Clinton. Washington
D.C. Speech.
In-text citation:
Maya Angelou (1993) said that "text of quotation." OR "Text of quotation" (Angelou 1993).
Speeches on CD
Taft, William Howard. [1908] 2007. Republican and Democratic Treatment of Trusts. Early
American Political Speech: A Collection of Speeches of American Politicians. CD.
Minneapolis: Filibust.
Citation in Text:
Place parenthetical citations in context in your sentences, after the word that needs the citation.
Use both the original and the reprint dates in the parenthetical citation:
In a much-loved speech (Taft [1908] 2007), he addressed the issue of trusts.

Speeches on YOU TUBE

Cato Institute. 2008. John Samples on Free Political Speech in 2009. You Tube Web site. Retrieved July 23,
2009 (http://www.you tube.com/ watch ?v=fRkUjMP8Byg).
Citations in Text:
Citations are placed in the context of discussion and are formatted like so, using the authors last
name and the date of publication.
(Cato Institute 2008)
Alternatively, you can integrate the citation into the sentence by means of narrative, like so:
The Cato Institute (2008) has published a video on You Tube in which John Samples discusses
free political speech.

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Legislation Examples
Court cases and legislative acts follow a format stipulated by legal publishers. The act or case is listed first,
followed by volume number, abbreviated title, and the date of the work in which the act or case is found. The
volume number is given in Arabic numerals, and the date is parenthesized. Court cases are italicized, but acts
are not. Case names, including v., are italicized.
Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954).
If retrieved from an online database, such as LexisNexis or HeinOnline, provide access information.
Ohio v. Vincer (Ohio App. Lexis 4356 [1999]).
U.S. Congress. House of Representatives. Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007. H.R. 2. 110th Congress, 1st Session,
2007. Retrieved July 11, 2010 (http://thomas.loc.gov).

Public Documents
Because the nature of public documents is so varied, the form of entry for documentation cannot be
standardized. The essential rule is to provide sufficient information so that the reader can locate the reference
easily.
Reports, Constitutions, Laws, and Ordinances
New York State Department of Labor. 1997. Annual Labor Area Report: New York City, Fiscal Year 1996
(BLMI Report, No. 28). Albany: New York State Department of Labor.
Ohio Revised Code Annotated, Section 3566 (West 2000).
Telecommunications Act of 1996, Public Law 104-014, 110 U.S. Statutes at Large 56 (1996).
U.S. Bureau of the Census. 1990. Characteristics of Population. Vol. 1. Washington, DC: U.S. Government
Printing Office.
U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 4.

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Citing a census table or map

Information taken from the Statistics Canada Website
Statistics Canada. 2007. Population and Dwelling Counts, for Canada, Provinces and Territories, 2006 and
2001 Censuses, 100% Data (table). Population and dwelling count highlight tables, 2006 Census. 2006
Census: Release topics. Census. Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 97-550-XWE2006002. Ottawa, Ontario.
March 13.
http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/popdwell/Table.cfm?T=101 (accessed November 3, 2008.)
Statistics Canada. 2002. Qubec CMA, Median Age, 2001, by Census Tract (map). Thematic maps. 2001
Census of Population. Census. Last updated March 11, 2003.
http://geodepot.statcan.ca/Diss/Maps/ThematicMaps/age_sex/CMA/ Quebec_medage_ec_f3.pdf (accessed
November 3, 2008).

Citing a census table, graph or map from a publication in HTML or PDF

Statistics Canada. 2007. Brandon, Man., 46, Dissemination area by non-tracted CA, 1 of 3 (map).
Dissemination Area Reference Maps, by Non-tracted Census Agglomerations, Update. Statistics Canada
Catalogue no. 92-148-UIB. Ottawa, Ontario. Last updated March 13.
http://geodepot.statcan.ca/Diss2006/Maps/Maps_Cartes/ NONTRACTEDCADA/MB/CADA610-D.pdf
(accessed October 27, 2008)
Statistics Canada. 2002. Moncton, N.B. (13), CMA/CA code 305, map 2 of 2 (map). Census Tract Reference
Maps, by Census Metropolitan Area and Census Agglomeration. Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 92F0145XIB.
Ottawa, Ontario. Last updated January 20, 2003.
http://geodepot.statcan.ca/Diss/Maps/ReferenceMaps/retrieve_cmaca.cfm?pdf_index=40 (accessed August 16,
2005).

Citing a census table, graph or map from a publication in print

Statistics Canada. 2004. Selected characteristics for census tracts, 2001 Census, 100% data and 20% sample
data (table). Profile of Census Tracts in Hamilton. Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 95-236-XPB. Ottawa,
Ontario. p. 8310.
Wang, Jennie. 2004. Farmland near cities commands higher prices (graph). Theyre tilling that field behind
the mall. Canadian Agriculture at a Glance. 2001 Census of Agriculture. Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 96325-XPB. Ottawa, Ontario. Statistics Canada. p. 20.

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Citing a table, graph or map from E-STAT

Statistics Canada. No date. Under 5 years, both sexes, 2006 (graph). 2006 Census of Population, Population
from 1921 to 2006 (Canada, Provinces, Territories) (database). Using E-STAT (distributor). Last updated
October 1, 2008.
http://estat.statcan.ca/cgi-win/CNSMCGI.PGM?Lang=E&C91SubDir=ESTAT\&DBSelect=HIST (accessed
October 27, 2008).
Statistics Canada. No date. Number of Farms and Selected Averages by Number of Operators per Farm, by
Province, Census Agricultural Region (CAR), Census Division (CD), 2001 Saskatchewan (20 Agricultural
Regions) (table). 2001 Census of Agriculture, Farm Operator Data by Province, Census Agricultural Region
(CAR) and Census Division (CD) (database). Using E-STAT (distributor). Last updated August 12, 2002.
http://estat.statcan.ca/cgi-win/CNSMCGI.EXE?ESTATFILE=EStat\English\E-Main.htm (accessed December
5, 2005).

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