EVS 100 (East)

CSE stands for Council of Science Editors and is commonly used when writing scientifically. CSE style includes three major systems for organizing your references: citation-sequence, citation-name, and name-year. These systems indicate how your in-text citations look and how your reference list is organized. The system most commonly used in Environmental Studies classes at W&J is name-year.

In the Name-Year system, in-text citations share the authors name and the date of publication and the cited reference list is organized alphabetically. 

CSE uses abbreviated journal titles which can be overwhelming for first-time users. We encourage you to ask a librarian for help.

In CSE style, keep in mind these general rules:

• When listing authors, spell out the last name but use initials for first and middle names. Do not use a comma between the last name and initials.
• List out up to 10 authors. At 11 or more, use the first ten names followed by et al. 
• For titles, capitalize only the first word and proper nouns. 
• Any Journal Title longer than one word should be abbreviated. 
• Anytime you are citing an online source you must add the [accessed date] and URL.