Reference/Citation Guidelines

Formats for Reference Lists, Using American Sociological Association Style (1997)


BOOKS

First-Edition Books
Eliasoph, Nina. 1998. Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life.
New York:  Cambridge University Press.

Glynn, Carroll J., Susan Herbst, Garrett J. O'Keefe and Robert Y. Shapiro. 1999. Public Opinion.  
            Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Later Editions of Books
Portes, Alejandro and Ruben G. Rumbaut. 1996. Immigrant America: A Portrait, 2d ed.  Berkeley:
            University of California Press.

[Abbreviations are 2d ed., 3d ed., Rev. ed., 2 vols.]

One Volume of Multivolume Book
Marx, Karl. [ 1887] 1967. Capital: Critique of Political Economy Volume 1, The Process of
Capitalist Production. Translated by Frederick Engles. Reprint. New York: International Publishers.

Translated Books
Durkheim, Emile. 1933. The Division of Labor in Society. Translated by George Simpson.  New
           York: Free Press.

Weber, Max. 1958. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Translated by Talcott
           Parsons. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Edited Books
Danziger, Sheldon and Peter Gottschalk, eds. 1993. Uneven Tides: Rising Inequality in America.
          New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Republished Books
Mason, Edward S. [1957] 1964. Economic Concentration and the Monopoly Problem.  Reprint.
          New York: Atheneum.


ARTICLES FROM BOOKS OR SCHOLARLY JOURNALS

Wright, Erik Olin. 1997. “Rethinking, Once Again, the Concept of Class Structure.” Pp. 41-72 in
         Reworking Class, edited by J. Hall. Ithaca:  Cornell University Press.

Pattillo-McCoy, Mary. 1998. “Church Culture as a Strategy of Action in the Black Community.”
         American Sociological Review  63:767-784.

[Note:  Omit issue number except when each issue is renumbered beginning with page 1. Then give volume (issue): pages-for example, 45(1 ):22-33.]


ARTICLES FROM POPULAR MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS

Janofsky, Michael. “Shortage of Housing for Poor Grows in the U.S.” New York Times (April 29, 1998), p. A14.

Nichols, John. 1998. “How Al Gore Has It Wired” Nation 267 (July 20, 1998):11-16.

[It is not always necessary to include page numbers for newspapers].


BOOK REVIEWS
Academic Journals
Bergen, Raquel Kennedy. 1998. Review of A Woman Scorned: Acquaintance Rape on Trial, by
          Peggy Reeves Sanday. Contemporary Sociology 27:98-99.

Popular Magazines
Wolfe, Alan. 1980. Review of Free to Choose, by Mil ton Friedman and Rose Friedman.  Saturday
         Review, 2(February):35.


GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS

U.S. Bureau of Census. 1994. Statistical Abstract of the United States, 114th ed.  Washington DC:
         U.S. Government Printing Office.


DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS AND THESES

King, Andrew J. 1976. “Law and Land Use in Chicago: A Pre-History of Modern      Zoning.”
          Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.


UNPUBLISHED PAPERS, POLICY REPORTS AND PRESENTED PAPERS

Haines, Herbert H. 1980. “Ideological Distribution and Racial Flank Effects in Social Movements”
         Presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, August, New York City.


INTERNET SOURCES
[Note: The date retrieved is the date that the reader located and read the work on the Internet.]

Announcement or Personal Home Page
American Sociological Association 1999.  Journals and Newsletters.  Retrieved January 16, 1999.
          http://www.asanet.org/Pubs/publicat.html

On-Line Journal Article
Sosteric, Mike, Mike Gismondi and Gina Ratkovic. 1998.  “The University, Accountability, and
          Market Discipline in the Late 1990s.”  Electronic Journal of Sociology April 1988, Vol. 3.  
          Retrieved January 16, 1999.  http://www.sociology.org/content/vol003.003/sosteric.html

Newspaper Article
Lee, Don. 1999. “State's Job Growth Hits Unexpected Cold Spell.” Los Angeles Times (January
          16).  Retrieved January 16, 1999. http://www.latimes.com/HOME/BUSINESS/topstory.html


Journal Abstract or Book Review
Grills, Steven. 1999. Review of Missing Persons: A Critique of Personhood in the Social Science
          by Mary Douglas and Steven Ney.  Canadian Journal of Sociology on line.  Retrieved
          January 16, 1999.  http://www.alberta.ca/~cjscopy/reviews/persons.html




References cited in:
Neuman, W. Lawrence. 2002.  Social Research Methods, 5th ed.  Boston: Allyn and Bacon