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SOCI: ASA Style

ASA Style

Authors

All entries in the References section should be in alphabetical order by first author's last name. Include first names for all authors, rather than initials, but use first name and middle initial if an author used intials in the original publication. 

List all authors. Do not use et al. in the References section. 

For in text citations with multiple authors: always give both last names for two authors. For three authors give all last names in the first citation and in subsequent citations use the first author and et al. For four or more authors use the first author and et al. in all citations. 

Formatting

Each entry in the References section should be single spaced and use a hanging indent. Double space between each reference entry. 

Use title case for all titles - capitalize all words except prepositions (such as of, between, through), articles (such as a, the, an), and conjunctions (such as but, and, or) - however, capitalize them if they begin the title or subtitle.