CSE's name-year in-text reference takes the form of the author's last name and the year of publication, in parentheses.
Examples
One author
(Gawande 2010)
Two authors
(Leboffe and Pierce 2010)
Three or more authors
(Wenger et al. 1995)
Organizational author
(ALSG 2001)
If you name your author in the sentence near the citation, you do not need to repeat that name in the citation itself:
Hurd (1996) and Gasith and Hasler (1976) who examined spatial linkages between islands and the surrounding sea and terrestrial organic inputs into lakes, respectively.
Cite a work cited by your source (secondary citation)
Secondary citations refer to material that you have not seen in its original form but rather have obtained from another document that cited the original source.
If using a direct quote, include the page number:
Farmers participating in these knowledge networks, Hassanein writes, "challenged the power relations in agricultural knowledge production and distribution by relying on their own and members' experiential knowledge" (Hassanein 1997, 304).
Similarly, Hayward, Simpson, and Wood (2004:95) describe "a mythologizing of the power of participatory methodologies to accomplish problem solving, emancipation or empowerment."
If both authors have the same surname, add their initials
(Mardis KL and Mardis LA 2012)
Using multiple in-text references at the same point (provide in chronologic sequence from earliest to latest, separated by semicolons - sequence by month those published in same year or, if this information isn't available, alphabetically by author names)
. . .the main proponents (Mardis and Johnson 1972; Mardis and Wyatt 1972; Baudino F 1978; Baudino K 1978; Park et al. 1980; Ury et al. 1981; Zupa 1985) concluded that. . .
Multiple works by the same author or set of authors (different years)
(Upper and Hirano 1996; Hirano et al. 1997, 1999)
No identifiable authorship - See section 29.2.1.2.6 p. 553
-- Begin the in-text reference with the first word or first few words of the title, followed by an ellipsis. Use only as many words of the title as needed to distinguish from other titles.
(Handbook. . .c1988)
Dates cannot be determined - See section 29.2.1.2.8 p. 554
-- Place the words "date unknown" within square brackets.
(Jackson [date unknown])