Tips for Choosing the Right Reference Type

Use Book for books written by one or more authors, and use Edited Book for books edited by one or more editors (whether they are books in a series or not).

Use Book Section for references to parts of edited or nonedited books (a chapter, for example).

The Conference Paper reference type is best used for unpublished papers. Articles that are published as part of the comprehensive conference proceedings should be entered as Conference Proceedings references.

Use the Electronic Article, Electronic Book, or Web Page reference type for citing material from a Web page or FTP site. If you are citing a journal article that appears both online and in print, most style guides prefer that you use the print information and cite it as a regular journal article. Email discussions should be cited as Personal Communications, just like any other correspondence.

Use the Chart or Table reference type if you want to include an image and later insert that image as a table in Microsoft Word. Images in all other reference types will insert into Word as figures, which are listed and numbered separately from tables.

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