For all authors, use initials, without periods or spaces
between them, in lieu of expanded given and middle names.
Include the authors’ surnames in full. The listing for each
author should be in inverted-order surname-first format.
Commas should separate individual author names. The word
“and” should not precede the final author name for reference
entries with six or fewer authors. If more than six
individuals authored a resource, the reference entry
documenting the resource should list the first six authors
followed by “et al.”
Up to Six Authors
Format: #. Author AZ, Author BY, Author CX
More Than Six Authors
Format: #. Author AZ, Author BY, Author CX, Author DW,
Author EV, Author FU, et al
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If an organization is the author of a resource, the full name
of the organization can appear in the reference:
8. British Standards Institution.
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If a resource has no author, the reference entry should
begin with the title of work:
12. Authorless Book Title.
The titles of book chapters and journal articles should
appear in Roman font with sentence style capitalization.
The titles of books, journals, reports, and papers should
appear in italics with headline style capitalization (i.e.,
capitalize first words of title and subtitle, as well as all
nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs,
regardless of length, and conjunctions and prepositions
longer than four letters). The titles of journals, moreover,
should be abbreviated in accordance with US National
Library of Medicine (NLM)/MEDLINE standards.