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order of information

Reference lists generally contain, in the following order:

  1. The author/creator of the information
  2. Date of publication
  3. Title information
  4. Publication, and retrieval information

Publication information is then further split by publication type:

  • For a journal article:
         ...title of journal, issue number, page numbers

  • For a book chapter:
         ...editors of book, title of book, (page numbers), location : publisher

  • For a web resource:
         ...retrieval date, uniform resource locator (URL), or DOI



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