Referencing Styles

A guide to the reference styles used at the University of St Andrews

How RSC Style manages Authors and Editors

All the authors of a work are included in the Reference List entry.  

  • Names are given as Initial(s). Surname 
  • Names are given in the order they appear in the work
  • Lists of names are separated with a comma, the word "and" is used between the penultimate and final author
  • A comma stop follows the final name.

 

E.g.

(1) M. Weller, T. Overton, J. Rourke and F. Armstrong, Inorganic Chemistry, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014.

Where you are citing the whole of an edited work add Ed. or Eds. after the names of the editor(s) in the reference. Note the use of an upper case E

If you are citing a chapter in an edited book ed. or eds comes ahead of the names of the Editors given after the details of the chapter. Note the use of a lower case e

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