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CSE Citation Style

This guide provides basic instruction about the CSE (Council of Science Educators) Citation Style.

Publisher

A publisher is a person, firm, or corporate body that makes a work available to the public.

The publisher is placed after the title. When using the citation-sequence and the citation-name systems end the publisher information with a semicolon. Use a period when using the name-year system. When using a journal or newspaper title as the publisher's name a period is used in all three systems.

Here are the general guidelines for including publisher titles in the references list.

  • Record the publisher name as it appears in the publication (found on the title page), using the capitalization and punctuation that is found there.
  • Omit the initial "the" of the publisher's title.
  • Do not list more than one publisher.
  • For references to journal articles, abbreviate the journal titles using ISO rules.
  • For newspaper articles use the newspapers’ entire titles.

From CSE Manual 9th ed., Ch. 29.3.3.5 Publisher