Punctuation: Style for bibliographic information in footnotes, bibliographies, and folder lists
Use title case. Capitalize book, journal, and article titles. Journal article titles also should be enclosed in quotation marks..
If a report has been published (that is, you have name of publisher: MIT Press) capitalize the title. If a report is unpublished, put the title in quotation marks and capitalize. (Periods and commas go inside the quotation mark in the USA).
In folder lists and footnotes put first name first.
Author’s last and first name, “Title of Article,” Journal Title 73, no. 1 (1980): pages. url.
Keng, Shao-Hsun, Chun-Hung Lin, and Peter F. Orazem. “Expanding College Access in Taiwan, 1978–2014: Effects on Graduate Quality and Income Inequality.” Journal of Human Capital 11, no. 1 (Spring 2017): 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1086/690235.
LaSalle, Peter. “Conundrum: A Story about Reading.” New England Review 38, no. 1 (2017): 95–109. Project MUSE.
Satterfield, Susan. “Livy and the Pax Deum.” Classical Philology 111, no. 2 (April 2016): 165–76.
Book
Author’s last and first name, Title of Book, place of publication: name of publisher, publication date. If there is only a place of publication and a date: Place, date.
Grazer, Brian, and Charles Fishman. A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Smith, Zadie. Swing Time. New York: Penguin Press, 2016.
Dates in narrative text (note fields only)
October 12 (not October 12th)
October 12, 1952 (when used in narrative the year should be followed by a comma)
The 21st century; 21st-century technology
September 1990 (no comma)
1980s (no apostrophe)
Use: from 1940 to 1960 (not from 1940-1960)
Use: between 1980 and 1990 (not between 1940-1960)
Use all digits in a number range: 1872 to 1888 (not 1872 to 88)
Numbers
Use a comma in numbers of four digits or more: 2,670
Numbers in narrative descriptive elements:
Spell out numbers from one to nine. For all other numbers, use digits
Spell out numbers that begin sentences.
Use: from 1940 to 1960 (not from 1940-1960)
Use: between 1980 and 1990 (not between 1940-1960)