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What an ASA Style Guide 6th/7th edition reference looks like
ASA Style Guide 6th/7th edition is an author-date style: the in-text citation gives the author surname and year in parentheses.
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Journal article
Babonis, Leslie S., and Mark Q. Martindale. 2022. “A Novel Regulatory Gene Network in Cnidarians.” PNAS 119(19):e2113701119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2113701119.
Book
Kuhn, Thomas S. 1970. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press.
Web page
IPCC. 2021. “Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis.” https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/.
In-text citation
(Babonis and Martindale 2022)
Journal article with 26 authors
Harris, Charles R., K. Jarrod Millman, Stéfan J. van der Walt, Ralf Gommers, Pauli Virtanen, David Cournapeau, Eric Wieser, Julian Taylor, Sebastian Berg, Nathaniel J. Smith, Robert Kern, Matti Picus, Stephan Hoyer, Marten H. van Kerkwijk, Matthew Brett, Allan Haldane, Jaime Fernández del Río, Mark Wiebe, Pearu Peterson, Pierre Gérard-Marchant, Kevin Sheppard, Tyler Reddy, Warren Weckesser, Hameer Abbasi, Christoph Gohlke, and Travis E. Oliphant. 2020. “Array Programming with NumPy.” Nature 585(7825):357–62. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2.
ASA Style Guide 6th/7th edition at a glance
Read from the style file and checked against the examples above.
- Used mainly in sociology.
- For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26.
- In the text, the same paper becomes (Harris et al. 2020).
- First names are written out in full.
- DOIs are printed with a "doi:" prefix.
- Web pages are cited without an access date.
- The reference list is sorted alphabetically by author.
- The reference list uses a hanging indent.
- The style file was last updated in June 2025.
The guide this style follows: asanet.org
How ASA Style Guide 6th/7th edition compares with Chicago Manual of Style 18th edition (author-date)
Where ASA Style Guide 6th/7th edition differs:
- For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26.
- DOIs are printed with a "doi:" prefix.
The same journal article in Chicago Manual of Style 18th edition (author-date)
Babonis, Leslie S., and Mark Q. Martindale. 2022. “A Novel Regulatory Gene Network in Cnidarians.” PNAS 119 (19): e2113701119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113701119.
Frequently asked questions
How many authors does ASA Style Guide 6th/7th edition list?
For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names all 26. In the text, the same paper becomes (Harris et al. 2020).
How does ASA Style Guide 6th/7th edition handle DOIs and web pages?
DOIs are printed with a "doi:" prefix. Web pages are cited without an access date.
How is the reference list ordered in ASA Style Guide 6th/7th edition?
The reference list is sorted alphabetically by author. The reference list uses a hanging indent.
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