Citation Guidelines for Blog

In the world of academia, knowledge is shared between scholars and peers. The importance of citations is stressed by the fact that ideas are influenced by another’s ideas. If there were no citation, one would have the grounds to assume the ideas presented are original. Not citing appropriately undermines the person, the institution he or she represents, and the individual whose ideas were stolen. As students of UNC Chapel Hill, we plan to uphold the Honor Code and give credit where it is due.

The citations for our blog post will follow the CSE/CBE format. The reason we chose this form of citation is because this form is widely used in the natural science field. Since most of our topics will fall into this category we felt this would be the proper citation format. When using the CSE/CBE format, we will be modifying the traditional superscript by removing the superscript and encasing the number in parenthesis. The authors agreed upon this modification because superscripts do not work well in html.





Example of CSE/CBE (N-Y) Online Article Citation


Rotenberry NDR, Smith SRS, Mustache ADM, Leg SUL, Mustang SWM. 2007. The incredible display of snow in Chapel Hill: observational study. ABC [Internet]. [cited 2014 January 29]; 120(6800):345-348. Available from: http://abc.wehavethebestarticles.com/ChapelHill/snow