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Please follow the guidelines below when formatting your manuscripts for CNS:

Here's an example of what this looks like:

Schuman, H. and J. Scott. 1987. Problems in the use of survey questions to measure public opinion. Science 236: 957-59.

——. 1989. Generations and collective memories. American Sociological Review 54: 359-81.

For edited, translated, or compiled volumes, the 3-em dash replaces only the preceding name or names, not an added “ed.,” “trans.,” or “comp.” Despite the added abbreviation, the chronological order of the listing is maintained.

Salleh, A. 1997. Ecofeminism as politics: Nature, Marx and the postmodern. London and New York: Zed Books.

——, ed. 2009. Eco-sufficiency and global justice: Women write political ecology. London: Pluto Press.

If two or more works by the same author(s) is/are published in the same year, add “a,” “b,” “c,” and so on to the date to distinguish between them. These entries are alphabetized by title.

Beijing Zoo. 1974a. Observations on the breeding of the giant panda and the raising of its young [in Chinese]. Acta Zoologica Sinica 20: 139-47.

——. 1974b. On the diseases of the giant panda and their preventive and curative measures [in Chinese]. Acta Zoologica Sinica 20: 154-61.

The 3-em dash can also be used if the author of the work is an institution or corporation. For example:

U.S. Senate. 1917. Committee on Public Lands. Leasing of oil lands. 65^th Cong., 1^st sess.

——. 1919-1920. Committee on Foreign Relations. Investigations of Mexican affairs. 2 vols. 66^th Cong., 2^nd sess.

——. 1924. Committee on Public Lands. Leases upon naval oil reserves. 68^th Cong., 1^st sess.

Although the committees listed in the above examples are, strictly speaking, the authors, citing the U.S. Senate as the author and placing the date before the name of the committee allows for more workable text citation (e.g., “U.S. Senate 1917”). But if context suggests otherwise, exercise editorial discretion.

Text Citations

When a specific page reference is given in the text citation, it must fall within the range of pages given for the article in the reference list.

It is the author's responsibility to make sure that the references are accurate and complete.

(Piaget 1980) – basic text citation

If a page number is cited, it comes after the year and is separated by a comma.

(Piaget 1980, 74) – text citation with page number

Here are some examples of citations that note other parts of the work:

(Piaget 1980, sec. 24) – text citation with section number

(Barnes 1998, vol. 2) – text citation with volume number

(Barnes 1998, 2: 354-55) – text citation with volume number (2) and pages (354-55)

If the author's name is in the text, it isn't repeated in the parenthetical citation.

The horrors of famine in India were only the most brutal manifestation of a long, complex history of exploitation and immiseration. Davis notes that “only moneylenders, absentee landlords, urban merchants, and a handful 0f indigenous industrialists seem to have benefited consistently from India's renewed importance in world trade (2002, 312).

Duplicate names and year of publication: When the reference list contains two or more works by different authors with the same last name, the text citation must include the initial of the first name or the first and middle name in order to distinguish between the two in the text citation:

(C. Jones 2009)

(M.J. Jones 2003)

When a reference list includes two or more works published in the same year by the same author(s), both the reference list and text citation must use alphabetical letters to distinguish between them:

(Zinn 2000a)

(Parry 2009b, 2009c)

Multiple authors: For works by two or three authors, include all of their names. Use “and” instead of an ampersand, which should only be used for corporate names:

(Nader, Brownstein and Richard 1981)

For more than three authors, use only the name of the lead author followed by “et al.” (notice, et al. is not italicized in the text citation):

(Koplow et al. 2010)

If referring to the work by name in the sentence, use “and others”:

In a study by Koplow and others (2010),…

If the reference list contains another work published in the same year that would also be abbreviated as “Koplow et al.” but the other work has different coauthors or they are listed in a different order, the text citation should list the first two or three authors to distinguish between them:

(Koplow, Lin, Jung et al. 2010)

(Koplow, Thöne, Lontoh et al. 2010)

Placement of text citations: Text citations that don't follow block quotations are usually placed just before a mark of punctuation. For example:

Energy corporations have been supremely successful at manipulating the political process, which supports them with massive subsidies (Koplow, et al. 2010).

But not if it is a full sentence direct quote:

“The profits from grain exports, meanwhile, were pocketed by richer zaminders, moneylenders, and grain merchants—not the direct producers.” (Davis 2002, 51)

Or a block quotation:

Multiple references:

Two or more references in a single text citation are separated by semicolons.

Energy corporations and their proponents manipulate the public sphere by engaging in sophisticated propaganda campaigns to both strengthen the perceived need for fossil fuels and confuse public debate by distorting facts about the environmental harm of extracting and burning them (Hogan and Littlemore 2009; Oreskes and Conway 2010; Gelbspan 1998; Pearce 2007).

Additional works by the same author(s) are given by date only, separated by commas except where page numbers are required. If citing the page, use a comma to separate it from the year and then a semicolon to separate other years.

(Chomsky 1969, 1996, 2003; Zinn 1980, 2000a, 2007)

(Chomsky 1969, 124; 1996, 59; 2003; Zinn 1980; 2000a; 2007)

Author-date system with footnotes: Expository footnotes can be used to expand on a point that the author doesn't wish to include in the main text. Source citations within footnotes are treated the same way as in the text:

¹⁹ The Marcellus Shale stretches from New York south and west through much of Pennsylvania into the eastern third of Ohio and down through western Maryland into most of West Virginia. A sliver runs along most of Virginia's western border. It encompasses a tiny portion of Kentucky at its easternmost point, and a very thin finger reaches into eastern Tennessee (Gillespie 2009, 37).

Acknowledgments:

If acknowledgements are required, they are marked by an asterisk footnote either after the title of the paper or the author's byline.

Here are examples of both:

Capitalism, Socialism, and Economic Democracy: Reflections on Today's Crisis and Tomorrow's Possibilities^*

*A version of this paper was originally presented at the Left Forum in New York City, April 17, 2010.

Costas Panayotakis^*

*The author thanks Joel Kovel and Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro for their helpful comments on an early draft of this paper.

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