Common Order of Elements Within a Citation 1. Start with last name followed by initials for the author s first and middle names. Ed. or Eds. Birth order . Date of publication in parentheses follows author s name.
Title follows the publication date unless no author is given for the source.
A multivariate investigation of preferences . For books, government documents, encyclopedias, and all article titles, capitalize only the first word, any proper names, and the first word after a colon. For titles of periodicals, capitalize all important words. For most federal government documents, the publisher is located in Washington, D.C. and is the Government Printing Office. The Washington Post , pp.