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ASA (7th ed.) Citation Style Guide: Further Examples

Brochures/Pamphlets

"Brochures, flyers, and pamphlets are treated as books" (American Sociological Association Style Guide, 7th ed., 2022:67).

Conference Session

Author Last Name, First Name. Year. "Title of Presentation." Type and location of presentation. URL (if available)

Sutton, April, and Bolun Zhang. 2019. “Girls Left Behind: U.S. Rural-Urban Inequality in Educational Attainment among a Millennial Cohort.” Conference Papers - American Sociological Association, January, 1–23. 

In Text

(Sutton and Zhang 2019)

Dissertation or Thesis Published Online (Not in a Database)

Author Last Name, First Name. Year. "Title of Dissertation." Ph.D. dissertation, Department Name, University Name, City, Province/State. 

Example

Sie, Samantha. 2023. “Investigating the Role of an Indigenised Variety of English in the Acquisitional and Sociolinguistic Contexts of the Malaysian Ecology.” Ph.D. dissertation, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England. doi:10.17863/CAM.96583.

In Text

(Sie 2023)

 

"Titles of dissertations and theses are placed in quotation marks (not italics). Include the department, the university, and, if consulted online, a URL. For dissertations obtained from a commercial database, include the name of the database and the identification number supplied by the database" (American Sociological Association Style Guide, 7th ed., 2022: 63).