GUIDELINES FOR ENTERING BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION IN CITEWRITE
Whether you are entering records by typing in the information, or using the Online Researcher
to collect bibliographic information for you, you will need to know just a few rules.
Names.
Always enter author names in the order in which they appear on the title page, and invert the first and last names.
Enter ALL the author names on the title page, in the order in which they are printed on the title page.
When there is more than one author, separate the names of the individuals with a semi-colon:
Smith, Jane R.; Wilson, James B.; Lee, R. W.
Dates
Enter the year of publication in the Year field. For books, the year of publication is usually
listed on the copyright page. For web pages, the year of publication is sometimes listed at the
bottom of the page. If there is no date, type n. d. in the Year field.
2004
n. d.
Enter the month of publication in the Day/Month field.
January 24
Spring
For web pages, enter the day and year on which you accessed the page
in the Accessed field
August 10, 2005
If you are working mainly with web pages, please see the help file page on
Citing Web Pages.
Book, article, collection and web page titles.
Enter titles in lower case. Citation will capitalize the words that need to be capitalized when you write your references.
Meditation and health care: newly discovered benefits
Journal Names
Capitalize all significant words in Journal Names; do not include leading articles (e.g., a, an, the)
New York Times
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Inclusive Pages.
The inclusive pages for an article are the page on which an article begins, and the page on which it ends.
221-239
Specific page.
If you are citing a particular quote, enter the page on which that quote appears.
Keywords.
You can enter several keywords to tag entries as having to do with a particular
topic. Separate keywords with a semicolon:
Nursing history; teaching methods; internship
Abstract.
You can enter a brief summary of the work in the Abstract field if you like.
