Always give the year of publication.
Convert roman numerals to arabic numbers. For example: MM to 2000.
Include the month of publication, if desired, after the year, such as 2004 May.
Use English names for months and abbreviate them to the first three letters, such as Jan.
End date information with a period.
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If no publisher can be found, use [publisher unknown].
Rome: [publisher unknown]; 1971.
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If more than one publisher is found in a report, use the first one given or the one set in the largest type or bold type.
Do not list multiple publishers. For those publications with joint or co-publishers, use the name given first as the publisher and include the name of the second as a note if desired. For example, use "Jointly published by …" or "Joint publication of …".
Monahan C, Szpur MV, Evans M, Craik D, Kubale MG, Maloney MM. Focus on Children community planning manual: needs assessment and health planning for children, including children with special health care needs. Rev. ed. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, Division of Specialized Care for Children; 1996 Oct. 136 p. Grant No.: DHHS/PHS/HRSA MCJ-175005. Joint publication of the Division of Family Health, Illinois Department of Public Health, Springfield.
End publisher information with a semicolon.
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Two organizations may co-publish a report.
Use the first organization appearing in the publisher position on the title page or the verso (back) of the title page as the publisher.
Place the name of the second organization as a note at the end of the citation, if desired.
Monahan C, Szpur MV, Evans M, Craik D, Kubale MG, Maloney MM. Focus on Children community planning manual: needs assessment and health planning for children, including children with special health care needs. Rev. ed. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, Division of Specialized Care for Children; 1996 Oct. 136 p. Grant No.: DHHS/PHS/HRSA MCJ-175005. Joint publication of the Division of Family Health, Illinois Department of Public Health, Springfield.
Do not give more than one name as publisher.
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When citing publishers that are national bodies such as government agencies, if a nationality is not part of the name, place the country in parentheses after the name, using the two-letter ISO country code (see Appendix D).
National Cancer Institute (US)
National Society on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NZ)
Royal Society of Medicine (GB)
Royal College of Physicians (AU), Paediatrics & Child Health Division
but
St. John's (NL): Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Health & Community Services; 2002.
Do not confuse the publisher with the distributor, who disseminates documents for the publisher. For example, the most common distributors of US government agency publications are the US Government Printing Office (GPO) and the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). Designate the agency that issued the publication as the publisher and include distributor information as a note, preceded by the phrase "Available from: ".
Ewing RE, Flournoy L, Wall J, Wild J, Crooks R (Texas Engineering Experiment Station, College Station, TX). Disaster Relief and Emergency Medical Services (DREAMS): Texas A&M digital EMS and the detection and remediation of chemical threat agents. Annual report 1 Oct 2003-30 Sep 2004. Washington: Department of the Army (US), Medical Division; 2004 Oct. 36 p. Contract No.: DAMD170020010. Available from: NTIS, Springfield, VA; ADA435629.
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Give publisher names appearing in the roman alphabet (French, Spanish, Italian, etc.) in their original language.
Montreal (QC): Agence d'Evaluation des Technologies et des Modes d'Intervention en Sante;
Rome: Istituto Superiore de Sanita;
Romanize names given in Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Korean
Moscow: Rossiiskaya Akademiya Nauk, Institut Sotsial'no-ekonomicheskikh Problem Narodonaseleniya;
Romanize names or translate names presented in character-based languages (Chinese, Japanese). Place all translated publisher names in square brackets unless the translation is given in the publication.
Tokyo: Tokyo-to Kenko Anzen Kenkyu Senta;
Beijing (China): [Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Population Research Institute];
Peking (China): Mei tan gong ye bu zhi ye yi xue yan jiu suo;
[Note that the concept of capitalization does not exist in Chinese. Therefore in transliterating Chinese publisher names only the first word and proper nouns are capitalized.].
If desired, follow a non-English name with a translation. Place all translated publisher names in square brackets.
Tokyo: Tokyo-to Kenko Anzen Kenkyu Senta [Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Public Health];
If the name of a division or other part of an organization is included in the publisher information, give the names in hierarchical order from highest to lowest
Valencia (Spain): Universidade de Valencia, Instituto de Historia de la Ciencia y Documentacion Lopez Pinero;
As an option, you may translate all publisher names not in English. Place all translated publisher names in square brackets unless the translation is given in the publication.
Tokyo: [Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Public Health];
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Commonly used words in names may be abbreviated, if desired
Examples:
Acad. for Academy
Assoc. for Association
Co. for Company
Coll. for College
Corp. for Corporation
Dept. for Department
Div. for Division
Inst. for Institute or Institution
Ltd. for Limited
Soc. for Society
Univ. for University
See Appendix C for more abbreviations of commonly used English words.
Be consistent. If you abbreviate a word in one reference in a list of references, abbreviate the same word in all references. Follow all abbreviated words with a period.
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Record the name of the publisher as it appears in the publication, using whatever capitalization and punctuation is found there.
When a division or other subsidiary part of a publisher appears in the publication, enter the publisher name first. For example: Harvard Medical School, Department of Genetics.
End publisher information with a semicolon.
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If no place of publication can be found on the title page or its verso (back), but one can be found elsewhere in the publication or can be reasonably inferred (e.g., Washington as the place for a publication of the Department of Health and Human Services), place the city in square brackets, such as "[Washington]".
[Deakin West (Australia)]: National Rural Health Alliance (AU); 1998 Feb. 74 p.
If no place of publication can be found or inferred, use [place unknown].
[place unknown]: Western Health Foundation; 1985.
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If more than one place of publication is found, use the first one or the one set in the largest type or in bold type. Do not give multiple places.
As an option, if one place is a US city and the other(s) are not, use the US city.
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Two organizations may co-publish a report.
Use the city of the first organization found in the publisher position on the title page (or on the back of the title page if no publisher information appears on the title page) as the place of publication.
Place the name of the second organization as a note at the end of the citation, if desired.
Example:
Monahan C, Szpur MV, Evans M, Craik D, Kubale MG, Maloney MM. Focus on Children community planning manual: needs assessment and health planning for children, including children with special health care needs. Rev. ed. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, Division of Specialized Care for Children; 1996 Oct. 136 p. Grant No.: DHHS/PHS/HRSA MCJ-175005. Joint publication of the Division of Family Health, Illinois Department of Public Health, Springfield.
Do not give multiple places as place of publication or include multiple publishers.
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Use the anglicized form of a city name, such as Rome for Roma and Moscow for Moskva. However, the name as found on the publication may always be used.
Follow Canadian cities with the two-letter abbreviation for the name of the province, placed in parentheses:
Montreal (QC):
Ottawa (ON):
Vancouver (BC):
If the city is not well known or could be confused with another city of the same name, follow the city with the country name, either written in full or as the two-letter ISO country code (see Appendix D). Place the country name or code in parentheses.
London:
Rome:
Paris:
Madrid:
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Malaga (Spain): or Malaga (ES):
Basel (Switzerland): or Basel (CH):
Oxford (England): or Oxford (GB):
As an option, use the country name or country code after all cities not in the US or Canada
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Place is defined as the city where the report was published.
Follow US and Canadian cities with the two-letter abbreviation for the state or province (see Appendix E) to avoid confusion when citing lesser known cities or when cities in different locations have the same name, such as Palm Springs (CA) and Palm Springs (FL).
Follow cities in other countries with the name of the country, either written out or as the two-letter ISO country code (see Appendix D), when citing lesser known cities or when cities in different locations have the same name, such as London (ON) and London (England).
Use the anglicized form for a non-US city, such as Vienna for Wein.
End place information with a colon.
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Translate the word found for editor, translator, illustrator, or other secondary author into English if possible to assist the reader. However, the wording found on the publication may always be used.
To assist in identifying secondary authors, below is a brief list of non-English words for them:
| Language | Word for Editor | Word for Translator | Word for Illustrator |
| French | redacteur | traducteur | illustrateur |
| editeur | |||
| German | redakteur | ubersetzer | illustrator |
| herausgeber | dolmetscher | ||
| Italian | redattore | traduttore | disegnatore |
| curatore | |||
| editore | |||
| Russian | redaktor | perevodchik | konstruktor |
| izdatel | |||
| Spanish | redactor | traductor | ilustrador |
| editor |
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On rare occasions an organization is listed as the editor.
Follow the instructions for entering the organization name found under Organizations as author.
Place a comma, space, and the word editor after the organization name.
Advisory Committee on Existing Chemicals of Environmental Relevance, editor. Naphthalin. Hicks R, translator. Weinheim (Germany): VCH; c1992. 155 p.
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A secondary author may perform more than one role.
List all of them in the order they are given in the publication.
Separate the roles by "and".
End secondary author information with a period.
Example:
Jones AB, editor and translator.
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A report may have several types of secondary author.
List all of them in the order they are given in the publication.
Separate each type of author and the accompanying role by a semicolon.
End secondary author information with a period.
Examples:
Smith BC, editor; Carson HT, illustrator.
Graber AF, Longstreet RG, translators; Johnson CT, Marks C, Huston MA, illustrators.
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