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Chapter in an edited book (Watkins & Lask, 2009) Watkins, B. & Lask, B. (2009). Defining eating disorders in children. In L. Smolak & J.
without a DOI or K. Thompson (Eds.). Body image, eating disorders, and obesity in youth:
Watkins and Lask (2009) proposed… Assessment, prevention, and treatment (2nd ed., pp. 35-46). American
Psychological Association.
Article with DOI: from (Imam et al., 2019). Imam, Z., Khasawneh, M., Jomaa, D., Iftikhar, H., & Sayedahmad, Z. (2019). Drug
research databases induced liver injury attributed to a curcumin supplement. Case Reports in
Gastrointestinal Medicine, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/6029403
Do not include the database name or URL for articles from most academic research
databases however, check with your instructor first; they may want you to include
the permalinks* e.g.
https://libsecure.camosun.bc.ca:2443/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.
aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=139205464&site=ehost-live
Article without DOI: (Meyers et al., 1992) or Meyers, M. C., Calvo, R. D., Sterling, J. C., & Edelstein, D. W. (1992). Delayed
from research databases A case study by Meyers et al. (1992)… treatment of a malreduced distal femoral epiphyseal plate fracture. Medicine
or from a print journal & Science in Sports & Exercise, 24(12), 1311–1315.
Article without DOI, with a Ash (2019) or Ash, P. (2019, February 6). Rams athletes talk about their black experience [Special
nondatabase URL Ash (2019) recounted… issue]. The Eyeopener. https://theeyeopener.com/2019/02/ryersons-black-
student-experience/
Article from a newspaper Pash (2021) or Pash, G. W. (2021, September 25). Shipbuilding goes back further than 19th
Pash (2021) suggests that… century. Times Colonist.
https://libsecure.camosun.bc.ca:2443/login?url=https://www.proquest.com
/newspapers/shipbuilding-goes-back-further-than-19th-
century/docview/2576402838/se-2
Webpage, no date (Environment Canada, n.d.). Environment Canada. (n.d.). Canadian lightning danger map – Canada. Government
of Canada. Retrieved June 15, 2020 from
https://weather.gc.ca/lightning/index_e.html
A retrieval date is included only if the information is subject to change. In this case,
the webpage is continually updated so it is helpful to include a retrieval date.
Webpage, with a date (Mayo Clinic, 2018). Mayo Clinic. (2018, October 6). Massage: Get in touch with its many benefits.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/stress-management/in-
depth/massage/art-20045743
When the author and publisher are the same, there is no need to repeat them.
Webpage on a news site (Riches, 2020). Riches, G. (2020, April 22). How food banks prop up a broken system. The Tyee.
(treated as a webpage, not as https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2020/04/22/Food-Banks-Prop-Broken-System/
a newspaper article)
Blog post (Pope, 2020). Pope, T. D. (2020, May 21). Taking a look at cause marketing: Principles and keys to
success. Canadian Marketing Association. https://www.the-
cma.org/hubs#ufh-i-615149469-taking-a-look-at-cause-marketing-principles-
and-keys-to-success
YouTube or streaming video (Fogarty, 2019). Fogarty, M. [Grammar Girl]. (2019, September 9). Verbing Nouns. 'It Is I' or 'It Is
Me'? [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY3cJ66O9QM
To directly quote from a video add a
time stamp for the beginning of the General rules:
quote to your in-text citation. Include the author’s real name and their username if available i.e., Grammar
(Fogarty, 2019, 4:22) Girl
Include YouTube as the publisher
One author (Klein, 2019). Klein, N. (2019). On fire: The burning case for a green new deal. Alfred A. Knopf
or Canada.
Klein (2019) maintains…
Two authors (Stec & Arbour, 2020) Stec, M., & Arbour, M. W. (2020). Wellness and disease self-management mobile
or health apps evaluated by the Mobile Application Rating Scale. Advances in
List both authors each time. Stec and Arbour (2020) suggested… Family Practice Nursing, 2, 87–102.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yfpn.2020.01.003
Three or more authors, up to (Ptomey et al., 2019). Ptomey, L. T., Vidoni, E. D., Montenegro-Montenegro, E., Thompson, M. A., Sherman,
20 authors J. R., Gorczyca, A. M., Greene, J. L., Washburn, R. A., & Donnelly, J. E. (2019).
List the first author only followed by et The feasibility of remotely delivered exercise session in adults with
al. Alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers. Journal of Aging & Physical Activity,
27(5), 670–677. https://doi.org/10.1123/japa.2018-0298
21 or more authors (Guida et al., 2019). Guida, J. L., Ahles, T. A., Belsky, D., Campisi, J., Cohen, H. J., DeGregori, J., Fuldner, R.,
Ferrucci, L., Gallicchio, L., Gavrilov, L., Gavrilova, N., Green, P. A., Jhappan, C.,
Kohanski, R., Krull, K., Mandelblatt, J., Ness, K. K., O’Mara, A., Price, N., …
List the first author only followed by et Hurria, A. (2019). Measuring aging and identifying aging phenotypes in
al. cancer survivors. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 111(12), 1245–
1254. https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djz136
List the first 19 authors, then insert three dots (ellipsis …) and add the last author’s
name. In this example, there were 24 contributing authors.
Group (corporate) author with First mention: Canadian Mental Health Association. (2019, May). Cohesive, collaborative, collective:
abbreviation (Canadian Mental Health Association Advancing mental health promotion in Canada. https://cmha.ca/wp-
[CMHA], 2019). content/uploads/2019/05/MHP-Full-Paper-FINAL-EN.pdf
Subsequent: Do not include an abbreviation for a group author in the reference list entry.
(CMHA, 2019) …