Citing Sources & Citation Styles

Basic Format:

1. Author(s) - Last, First M., and First M. Last.
2. Title of Book: Subtitle (if any)
3. Publisher,
4. Year of Publication.

Last, First M. Title of Book: Subtitle (if any). Publisher, Year of Publication.

Example (one author):

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. Random House, 1953.

Example (multiple authors):

Ross, Stephen A., Randolph Westerfield, and Jeffrey Jaffe. Corporate Finance, 9th ed. McGraw-Hill, 2010.

Example (more than three authors): use et al. after the first named author.

Wysocki, Anne Francis, et al. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Utah State UP, 2004.

Basic Format:

1. Author(s) - Last, First M., and First M. Last.
2. Title of Book: Subtitle (if any)
3. Version or edition number (if any).
4. Publisher
5. Year of Publication.
6. E-book Platform
7. DOI or URL.

Last, First, M. Book Title. Publisher, Year of Publication. E-book platform. DOI or URL.

Example:

Voci, Paolo. China on Video: Smaller Screen Realities. Routledge, 2010. ProQuest Ebook Central. ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/babson/detail.action?docID=534243

Basic Format:

1. Author(s) - Last, First M., and First M. Last.
2. "Article Title: Subtitle."
3. Title of Journal or Source
4. Volume, Issue, Year, pages
5. Database where you accessed the article.
6. DOI or URL

Last, First M. “Article Title.” Journal Title, vol #, no. #, Year, pages. Database Name, DOI or URL.

Example:

Finalyson, Alan. "Rhetoric And The Political Theory Of Ideologies." Political Studies, vol. 60, no. 4, 2012, pp. 751-67. EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9248.2012.00948.x

Basic Format:

1. Author or compiler of profile report.
2. "Title of Profile or Report."
3. Name of Database where report was accessed.
4. Date of report or profile - day month year.
5. DOI or URL

Author/Compiler of Report. “Company Profile Title.” Database Name. Date Published. DOI or URL

Examples:

S&P Capital IQ. “Dell Inc. Private Company with Public Debt Profile.” Capital IQ, 2018. www.capitaliq.com/CIQDotNet/company.aspx?companyId=253188908.

MarketLine. "Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV SWOT Analysis." EBSCOhost Business Source Complete, 26 June 2018. search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=130997653&site=ehost-live.

Basic Format:

Author/Compiler of Report. “Statistical Report Title.” Database Name. Publication Date. DOI or URL (if from Bloomberg, leave URL out).

Example:

HSH Associates. "Rates on 1-Year Adjustable Mortgages in the United States from 2005 to 2016.” Statista, 2018. www-statista-com.ezproxy.babson.edu/statistics/272729/1-year-adjustable-mortgage-rates-in-the-united-states-from-2011/.

Bloomberg Data Set:

Bloomberg L.P. “Stock Price Graph for Microsoft Corp. 06/02/2018 - 07/02/2018.” Bloomberg Terminal, 2018.

Citing a table from a report:

Mintel. “Figure 4: Total US Sales and Fanchart Forecast of Men's and Women's Footwear, at Current Prices, 2012-22.” Men's and Women's Footwear - US, Mintel Academic, May 2018. academic.mintel.com.ezproxy.babson.edu/display/894191/.

Example:

United States, Supreme Court. Roper v. Simmons. 1 March 2005. Legal Information Institute, Cornell U Law School, www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-633.ZS.html.

Basic Format:

1. Author (either analyst firm or personal name).
2. "Report Title."
3. Database where report was accessed
4. Date of report.
5. DOI or URL.

Report Author. “Report Title.” Database Name, Date of Report. DOI or URL.

Examples:

GlobalData. “Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review.” Mergent Investext, 2018. mergentonline.com.ezproxy.babson.edu/investextsearchlive.php?opt=loadDocument& docid=82581712&doctype=pdf.

Oliver, Kelsey. "IBISWorld Industry Report OD4621: Corporate Wellness Services in the US." IBISWorld. Apr. 2018. clients1-ibisworld-com.ezproxy.babson.edu/reports/us/industry/default.aspx?entid=4621.

10-K or Annual Report from the company's own website:

1. Title of 10-K or Annual Report.
2. Name of publisher or sponsor of website.
3. Date of report.
4. DOI or URL.

Examples:

10-K Annual Report. Apple Inc., 3 Nov. 2017. d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0000320193/bc9269c5-539b-4a69-9054-abe7849c4242.html.

2017 Annual Report. Chevron Corporation, 2017. www.chevron.com/-/media/chevron/annual-report/2017/2017-Annual-Report.pdf.

2017 Annual Report. Intel Corporation, 2017. intel2018or.q4web.com/Y2017/default.aspx.

10-K or Annual Report from a Babson subscription database:

1. Company Name.
2. "Title of 10-K or Annual Report."
3. Date of report.
4. Database where report was accessed.
5. DOI or URL

Examples:

Amgen Inc. "2013 10-K Report." 13 Feb. 2018, Capital IQ, www.capitaliq.com/CIQDotNet/Filings/DocumentRedirector.axd?documentId=242610618.

PepsiCo Inc. "Form 10-K." 30 Dec. 2017. Mergent Online, www.mergentonline.com.ezproxy.babson.edu/printedgar.php? pagetype=companyfilings&id=17253586&type=HTML&compname=PEPSICO%20INC.

Basic Format:

Cite them as you would a book, but add day and month to date for a press release.

Example:

Xerox Reports Third-Quarter 2013 Earnings. Xerox Corp., 26 Oct. 2017, www.news.xerox.com/news/Xerox-reports-third-quarter-2017-earnings.

Basic Format:

1. Author(s) - Last, First, M. and First M. Last (or Corporate Author Name)
2. "Title of Webpage." (in quotes)
3. Title of Website. (in italics)
4. Version or edition used (if known)
5. Publisher or sponsor of website; if unknown, use N.p.
6. Date of site creation or update (day month year); if not known, use n.d.
7. DOI or URL.

Examples:

Segal, Troy. “What is Private Equity?” Investopedia.Investopedia LLC., 3 Nov. 2017, www.investopedia.com/articles/financial-careers/09/private-equity.asp.

Rapp, Christof. “Aristotle’s Rhetoric.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U, 1 Feb. 2010, plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-rhetoric/.