Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Online newspaper article Wade, N. (2009, December 29). In new way to edit DNA, hope for treating disease. New York
Pattern: Author (last name and initial(s)). (date
of publication in parentheses). Article title. Times, Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com.
Name of periodical [in italics]. Retrieved from
[URL of homepage]. In-text example: (Wade, 2009)
Journal/Magazine article from a print source Kaiser, J. (2009). Gene therapy in a new light. Smithsonian, 39(10), 54.
Pattern: Author (last name and initial(s)). (date
of publication in parentheses). Article title. In-text example: (Kaiser, 2009)
Name of periodical [in italics], issue number
(date), pages.
Journal/Magazine article from online
database (non-web source)
Pattern: Author (last name and initial(s)). (date Kaiser, J. (2009). Gene therapy in a new light. Smithsonian, 39(10), 54. Retrieved from
of publication in parentheses). Article title.
Name of periodical [in italics], issue number EBSCOhost.
(date), pages. Retrieved from from [name of
database] In-text example: (Kaiser, 2009)
Web page with no author, use the name of National Human Genome Research Institute. (2010 August 11). Cloning. Retrieved from
the issuing organization
Pattern: Name of the issuing organization. http://www.genome.gov/
(latest update in parentheses). Article web page
In-text example: (NHGRI, 2010)
in italics. Retrieved from [url of homepage].