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Copyright Guidance on ETD

Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETD)

Examples of Chapter Level Citations

The citations given here are for example purposes only. They may not meet your unique situation requirements. 

A. Citation Determined by Amount Used and Degree of Adaptation - entire article, no adaptation

Chapter 2 Title Example

This chapter has been previously published as Gargiulo R, Suhail F, Lerma EV. Hypertension and chronic kidney disease. Disease-a-month : DM. 2015;61(9):387-395. 10.1016/j.disamonth.2015.07.003. It is reprinted here with permission in whole without any adaptations since the original publication.

B. Citation Determined by Amount Used and Degree of Adaptation – new material

Chapter 3 Title example

Parts of this chapter have previously been published and are reprinted here with permission alongside new, never-before published results. Gargiulo, R., Suhail, F. Hypertension and chronic kidney disease. Disease-a-Month: DM. 2015;61(9):387-395. 10.1016/j.disamonth.2015.07.003

Open Access Articles

Although freely accessible, open access articles require attribution the same as copyrighted articles. Some publishers require you to include the type of open access license, some require a link to the license.

C. Citing a previously published open access article, using the entire article, with no adaptations.

Chapter 4 Title example

This chapter has previously been published as an open access article and is reprinted here without adaptation. Zhang Z., Xu J., Tang, J. Diagnosis of Brain Diseases via Multi-Scale Time-Series Model. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 2019;13(197).  doi:https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.00197

D. Citing a previously published open access article with a CC-BY Creative Commons License. This is a unique example because this journal/publisher required the author to include the link to the actual license. This may not always be required.

Chapter 2 Title example

Previously published as an open access article as: Silva LM, Jacobs DT, Allard BA, et al. Inhibition of Hedgehog signaling suppresses proliferation and microcyst formation of human Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease cells. Scientific reports. 2018;8(1):4985. DOI: 10/1038/s41598-018-23341-2  Creative Commons License  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.

Citation Styles

Citation Style

The citation style used should be recommended and approved by your advisor or discipline. The same citation style should be followed throughout your manuscript. The health sciences often use the following styles:

AMA

Mun EJ, Babiker HM, Weinberg U, Kirson ED, Von Hoff DD. Tumor-Treating Fields: A Fourth Modality in Cancer Treatment. Clin Cancer Res. 2018;24(2):266–275. doi:10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-17-1117

APA

Mun, E. J., Babiker, H. M., Weinberg, U., Kirson, E. D., & Von Hoff, D. D. (2018). Tumor-Treating Fields: A Fourth Modality in Cancer Treatment. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 24(2), 266-275. https://doi:10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-17-1117

Vancouver

Mun EJ, Babiker HM, Weinberg U, Kirson ED, Von Hoff DD. Tumor-Treating Fields: A Fourth Modality in Cancer Treatment. Clin Cancer Res. 2018;24(2):266-75. doi:10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-17-111