ASA Citation Generator

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    ASA rules students get wrong

    ASA 7th edition, 7th edition (2022). Used in: Sociology.

    • In-text citations give the author, year and page with a colon: (Kahneman 2011:20).
    • The first author is inverted in the reference list; later authors are not.

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    Journal article

    References entry

    LeCun, Yann, Yoshua Bengio, and Geoffrey Hinton. 2015. “Deep Learning.” Nature 521(7553):436–44. doi:10.1038/nature14539.

    In-text citation

    (LeCun, Bengio, and Hinton 2015:437)
    Book

    References entry

    Kahneman, Daniel. 2011. Thinking, Fast and Slow. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

    In-text citation

    (Kahneman 2011:20)
    Chapter in an edited book

    References entry

    Tversky, Amos, and Daniel Kahneman. 1982. “Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases.” Pp. 3–20 in Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases, edited by D. Kahneman, P. Slovic, and A. Tversky. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    In-text citation

    (Tversky and Kahneman 1982:4)
    Web page

    References entry

    World Health Organization. 2023. “Depression.” https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/depression.

    In-text citation

    (World Health Organization 2023)
    YouTube video

    References entry

    3Blue1Brown. 2017. “But What Is a Neural Network? | Deep Learning Chapter 1.” YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk.

    In-text citation

    (3Blue1Brown 2017:4:15)
    Podcast episode

    References entry

    Glass, Ira. 2011. “Amusement Park.” This American Life. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/443/amusement-park.

    In-text citation

    (Glass 2011:12:30)
    Lecture or speech

    References entry

    Pausch, Randy. 2007. “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.” Presented at the Journeys Lecture Series, September 18, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.

    In-text citation

    (Pausch 2007:10:05)
    Newspaper article

    References entry

    Roose, Kevin. 2023. “A Conversation with Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled.” The New York Times, February 16.

    In-text citation

    (Roose 2023)
    Magazine article

    References entry

    Carr, Nicholas. 2008. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” The Atlantic, July, 56–63.

    In-text citation

    (Carr 2008:57)
    Report

    References entry

    World Health Organization. 2022. World Mental Health Report: Transforming Mental Health for All. World Health Organization. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240049338.

    In-text citation

    (World Health Organization 2022)
    Thesis or dissertation

    References entry

    Nash, John Forbes. 1950. “Non-Cooperative Games.” PhD thesis, Princeton University.

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    (Nash 1950)
    Conference paper

    References entry

    Vaswani, Ashish, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Łukasz Kaiser, and Illia Polosukhin. 2017. “Attention Is All You Need.” Pp. 5998–6008 in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. Vol. 30. Curran Associates.

    In-text citation

    (Vaswani et al. 2017)
    Dataset

    References entry

    Fisher, R. A. 1988. “Iris.” UCI Machine Learning Repository. doi:10.24432/C56C76.

    In-text citation

    (Fisher 1988)
    Film

    References entry

    Nolan, Christopher, dir. 2010. Inception. Warner Bros. Pictures.

    In-text citation

    (Nolan 2010:1:12:05)
    Software or app

    References entry

    R Core Team. 2023. R: A language and environment for statistical computing [computer program]. Version 4.3.1. https://www.R-project.org/.

    In-text citation

    (R Core Team 2023)
    ChatGPT or other AI

    References entry

    OpenAI. 2023. ChatGPT [computer program]. Version Mar 14. https://chat.openai.com/chat.

    In-text citation

    (OpenAI 2023)
    Dictionary or encyclopedia entry

    References entry

    Merriam-Webster. n.d. “Culture.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary.

    In-text citation

    (Merriam-Webster n.d.)
    Preprint (arXiv, SSRN, bioRxiv)

    References entry

    Devlin, Jacob, Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee, and Kristina Toutanova. 2018. “BERT: Pre-Training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding.”

    In-text citation

    (Devlin et al. 2018)
    Blog post

    References entry

    Karpathy, Andrej. 2015. “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks.” https://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/.

    In-text citation

    (Karpathy 2015)
    Court case

    References entry

    Mabo v Queensland (No 2), 175 CLR 1. 1992.

    In-text citation

    (Mabo v Queensland (No 2), 175 CLR 1 1992:42)
    Legislation

    References entry

    Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). 1988.

    In-text citation

    (Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) 1988:6)

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    Which edition of ASA does this follow?

    ASA 7th edition: 7th edition (2022), formatted from the american-sociological-association style in the Citation Style Language repository. It is not yet checked against the examples in the ASA Style Guide, so check the final list against the manual.

    Who uses ASA?

    Sociology.

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    Where do the details come from when I paste a DOI or link?

    DOIs come from Crossref and DataCite, ISBNs from Open Library and Google Books, PubMed IDs from NCBI, arXiv IDs from arXiv, YouTube links from YouTube, and web pages from the citation metadata the publisher embeds in the page (the same tags Google Scholar reads). Pages that carry no metadata are filled in as far as possible and the gaps are flagged for you.

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    Yes. Copy the list with its italics into Word or Google Docs, download a formatted .docx, or export BibTeX for LaTeX, RIS for EndNote, Zotero and Mendeley, or CSL-JSON.

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    Citations are formatted by citeproc-js by Frank Bennett (CPAL-1.0, or AGPL-1.0), the engine behind Zotero and Mendeley, running the official Citation Style Language styles (10,863 styles, commit 2e93558) and locales (commit a89adec), used under CC BY-SA 3.0. AGLC4 citations use the LexIntellect AGLC4 engine, checked against the Guide's worked examples. Always check a citation against the manual or your institution's guide before you submit.