The following codes are customized for NPS theses and are not intended for use with any other publisher or template. The NPS thesis LaTeX template comes prepackaged with a BibTeX tool and a bib file containing the examples below.
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Blog |
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Blog |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Use misc class. author = "J. Locke", title = "Effect of weird tails in 35mm Innsmouth sprocket periodicity distributions on re-tiered bicyclical phase shifting using {C}thulhean logic", month = "Dec. 22,", year = "2020 [Online]", howpublished = "Thing’s Credible!, blog", url = "https://wrywhisker.pulpfriction.net/wallcrust/linear-colinear-felinear.html" } |
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Book |
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Book Chapter One author, two editors |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Use incollection class. author = "P. Haynes", editor = "D. Moran and J. A. Russel", title = "Al-{Q}aeda, oil dependence, and {U.S.} foreign policy", booktitle = "Energy Security and Global Politics: The Militarization of Resource Management", publisher = "Routledge", address = "New York, NY, USA", year = "2009", pages = "62--77" } |
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DOI or URL |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Use ebook entry, with howpublished and URL declarations. author = "M. E. Bonds", title = "Absolute Music: The History of an Idea", howpublished = "Oxford University Press, New York, NY, USA, 2014 [Online].", url = "https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199343638.003.0004" } |
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From book provider |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Normal ebook entry, with howpublished decorations. author = "A. Krishnan", title = "War as Business: Technological Change and Military Service Contracting", howpublished = "Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2008 [Online]. Kindle edition" } |
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One author |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Normal use of book class. author = "M. Pollan", title = "The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", publisher = "Penguin", address = "New York, NY, USA", edition = "2nd ed.", year = "2006" } |
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Two authors with edition number |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Normal use of book class. author = "A. Strindberg and M. Wärn", title = " Islamism: Religion, Radicalization and Resistance", publisher = "John Wiley and Sons", address = "Hoboken, NJ, USA", edition = "2nd ed.", year = "2011" } |
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In a series |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Not just a book, but a part of a book portion (since there is page range), so the inbook class is more appropriate. If there were no pages, we could use book. editor = "M. Abramowitz and I. A. Stegun", title = "Handbook of Mathematical Functions", series = "Applied Mathematics Series 55", publisher = "NBS", address = "Washington, DC, USA", pages = "32--33", year = "1964" } |
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Portion |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Normal use of inbook. author = "B. Orend", title = "Morality of War", publisher = "Broadview Press", address = "Tonawanda, NY, USA", edition = "2nd ed.", year = "2013", chapter = "2, sec.\ 3", pages = "67--70" } |
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Volume |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Normal use of incollection for a chapter in a volume of collected works. author = "R. L. Myer", editor = "P. G. Harper and B. S. Wherret", title = "Parametric oscillators and nonlinear materials", booktitle = "Nonlinear Optics", publisher = "Academic Press", address = "San Francisco, CA, USA", year = "1977", volume = "4", pages = "47--160" } |
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Computer Program / Software |
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Computer Program / Software |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Variant of manual class. Note "and" between multiple authors and placement of "Online." author = "M. Borenstein and L. Hedges and J. Higgins and H. Rothstein", address = "Englewood, NJ, USA", title = "Comprehensive Meta-Analysis", howpublished = "ver. 2", year = "2005 [Online].", url = "http://www.meta-analysis.com" } |
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Conference Paper / Proceedings |
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Conference Proceedings (online) |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Variant of inproceedings class. Note "and" between more than three authors and placement of "Online." author = "J. W. Morentz and C. Doyle and L. Skelly and N. Adam", title = "{Unified Incident Command and Decision Support (UICDS) a Department of Homeland Security initiative in information sharing}", booktitle = "2009 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security", year = "2009 [Online].", url = https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5168032 } |
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Conference Proceedings (print) |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Normal use of inproceedings class. author = "I. Katz and K. Gabayan and H. Aghajan", title = "A multi-touch surface using multiple cameras", booktitle = "Adv. Conc. for Intell. Vis. Sys.: 9th Intl. Conf.", year = "2007", pages = "133--203" } |
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Paper Presented at Conference Unpublished |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Use misc class. author = "K. Kirby and J. Stratton", title = "{V}an {A}llen probes: Successful launch campaign and early operations exploring earth's radiation belts", howpublished = "presented at IEEE Aerospace Conference", address = "Big Sky, MT, USA", year = "2013" } |
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Data Set / Database |
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Database Published |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Normal use of electronic class. author = "{NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database}", organization = "Object name IRAS F00400+4059", url = "http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/", note = "Accessed Dec. 10, 2012" } |
Dictionary / Encyclopedia |
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Dictionary / Encyclopedia |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Use misc class, placing most elements in howpublished. Note italics on dictionary name. title = "Metamorphosis", howpublished = {\emph{Merriam-Webster}. Accessed July 6, 2017 [Online]}, url = "https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/metamorphosis" } |
Fact Sheet |
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Fact Sheet |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Use misc class, placing most elements in howpublished. Note italics on title. author = "{Texas Instruments}", howpublished = {\emph{LM555 timer}, SNAS548D, 2015 [Online]}, url = "https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lm555.pdf" } |
Government / Military Document |
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Directive |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Follow the manual style. Note use of "Online" if found online. title = "The Defense Acquisition System", howpublished = "DOD Directive 5000.1", organization = "Under Secretary of Defense (AT\&L)", address = "Washington, DC, USA", year = "2003 [Online].", url = "http://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/ DD/issuances/dodm/857001m.pdf" } |
| Doctrine | |
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Doctrine |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Follow the manual style. Note use of "Online" if found online. title = "Doctrine for the Armed Forces of the United States", howpublished = "JP-1", organization = "Joint Chiefs of Staff", address = "Washington, DC, USA", year = "2017 [Online].", url = "https://fas.org/irp/doddir/dod/jp1.pdf" } |
| Field Manual / Military Regulation | |
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Field Manual / Military Regulation |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Follow the manual style. We add the section range as a note, since its not a normal page range. title = "Sniper Training", howpublished = "FM 23-10", organization = "U.S. Dept. of the Army", address = "Washington, DC, USA", year = "1995 [Online]", url = "https://www.bits.de/NRANEU/others/amd-us-archive/fm_23-10\%2894\%29.pdf" } |
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CRS or GAO Report |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Variant of misc class. author = "M. C. Erwin", title = "Intelligence issues for Congress", address = "Washington, DC: USA", howpublished = "CRS Report No. RL33539", year = "2011 [Online].", url = "http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/RL33539.pdf" } |
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Instruction |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Follow the manual style. title = "Identification (ID) Cards Required by the Geneva Convention", howpublished = "DOD Instruction 1000.01", organization = "Department of Defense", address = "Washington, DC, USA", year = "2012", pages = "1-1, 1-10" } |
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Memorandum |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Variant of misc class. Notice escaping for special characters in URL. author = "T. M. Takai", title = "Adoption of the national information exchange model within the {D}epartment of {D}efense", address = "Washington, DC: USA", howpublished = "official memorandum, {D}epartment of {D}efense, Washington, DC, USA", year = "2013 [Online].", url = "http://dodcio.defense.gov/Portals/0/Documents/2013-03-28\%20Adoption\%20of\%20the\%20NIEM\%20within\%20the\%20DoD.pdf" } |
Handbook |
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Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Follows the manual style. title = "Transmission Systems for Communications", edition = "3rd", organization = "Western Elect. Co.", address = "Winston-Salem, NC, USA", year = "1985", pages = "44--60" } |
Journal Article |
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Online DOI or URL |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Article entry populated with "[Online]" and URL in year field. author = "G. Sanico and M. Kakinaka", title = "Terrorism and deterrence policy with transnational support", journal = "Def. \& Peace Econ.", volume = "19", number = "2", year = "2018 [Online]. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10242690701505419", month = Apr }
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Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Normal use of article class. author = "W. Q. Wang and H. Shao", title = "High altitude platform multichannel {SAR} for wide-area and staring imaging", journal = "Aerosp. and Electron. Syst.", volume = "29", number = "25", month = mar, year = "2014", pages = "12--17" } |
Legal |
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Legislative Document |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Variant of electronic with strange authors, use journal field to put title in italics. author = "{U.S. House. 102nd Congress, 1st Session}", journal = "H. Con. Res. 1, To Express the Sense of the Congress That Congress Must Approve Any Offensive Military Action Against Iraq", year = "1991", month = "Jan. 11", url = "https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/1?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22h.+con.+res.+1% 22%5D%7D&s=1&r=1" }
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Public Law Published in the U.S. Code |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Variant of electronic with strange authors, most information in howpublished. author = "{Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990}", howpublished = "42 U.S.C. § 12101. 1991" } |
Map |
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Google Map |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Use misc class, entering "[Online]" in year field. author = "Google", title = "Monterey Bay", month = "Accessed Jul. 6, 2017.", year = "[Online]", url = "https://www.google.com/maps/ place/Monterey+Bay/@36.7896106,-122.0843052,11z/data= !3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x808e0ccfc5859dfd:0x124654a608855d43!8m2!3d36.8007413!4d-121.947311" } |
Newspaper Article |
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Online |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Use misc, entering "Online" in year. Note period and comma in month. author = "L. Linguine", title = "Animal fat shampoos for achieving angel hair", journal = "Knife and Spork Semi-Weekly", year = "2016 [Online]", month = "Jul. 15,", url = "http://www.chickenyodeling.com/dfjgp98y4t34_pherg899h.html/" } |
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Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Variant of misc. Use italics in howpublished and comma in month. author = "J. Stulberg", title = "The art of creating crossword puzzles", howpublished = "\emph{The New York Times}", year = "2016", month = "Jul. 15," } |
Patent |
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Patent |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Normal use of patent class. author = "A. G. Bell", title = "Improvement in telegraphy", nationality = "United States", number = "174465", day = "7", month = Mar, year = "1876", url = "https://www.google.com/patents/US174465" } |
Personal Communication |
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Email, Interview, Private Communication, etc. |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Use misc class. author = "R. Ajanlekoko", howpublished = "private communication", year = "2009", month = "Sep." } |
Report |
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Research Report / Think Tank Report / White Paper |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Use misc class, placing a lot of info in howpublished. author = "L. Dixon and N. Clancy and B. M. Miller and S. Hoegberg and M. M. Lewis and {B. Bender et al.}", title = "The cost and affordability of flood insurance in New York City", howpublished = "RAND Corp., Santa Monica, CA, USA, RR-1776-NYCEDC", year = "2017 [Online]", url = "https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR1700/RR1776/ RAND_RR1776.pdf" } |
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Technical Report Author given (online) |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Use techreport class. author = "S. V. Effendi and X. Vilhjálmsson", title = "The absorption rate of potatoes in salmonella", institution = "Dept. Vet. Stud.", address = "Madison, WI, USA", number = "17-59", year = "2009 [Online]", url = "https://vetstudies.edu/donteatthosefries.html" } |
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Technical Report Author given (print) |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Normal use of techreport class. author = "K. A. Abdulatipov and F. Ramazonov", title = "The absorption rate of E. coli in cats", institution = "Dept. Vet. Stud.", address = "Madison, WI, USA", number = "17-59", year = "2012" } |
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Technical Report Organization as author (online) |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. (Mis)use techreport class, place address in institution declaration. author = "{National Toxicology Program}", title = "Toxicology and carcinogenesis studies of trimethylolpropane triacrylate {(CASRN 15625-89-5) in F344/N rats and B6C3F1/N mice (Topical Application Studies)}", institution = "Washington, DC, USA", number = "TR-576", year = "2012 [Online]", url = "https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/results/pubs/longterm/reports/longterm/tr500580 ?/listedreports/tr576/index.html" } |
Standard |
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Standard |
Standard:
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Standards fit well with manual class. title = "Letter Symbols for Quantities", howpublished = "ANSI Standard Y10.5", year = "1968" } |
Thesis / Dissertation |
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Dissertation (print) |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Normal use of phdthesis class. author = "J. Rivera", title = "Software system architecture modeling methodology for naval gun weapon systems", school = "Dept. of Comp. Sci., Harvard Univ.", address = "Cambridge, MA, USA", year = "2010" } |
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Thesis From an institutional archive such as the NPS Archive: Calhoun |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Use mastersthesis class. Enter "M.S. thesis" in type field. If online, enter "Online" in year declaration. author = "T. D. Moon", title = "Rising dragon: Infrastructure development and Chinese influence in Vietnam", school = "Dept. of Natl. Sec. Aff., NPS", address = "Monterey, CA, USA", type = "M.S. thesis", year = "1993 [Online]", url = "http://hdl.handle.net/10945/4694" } |
Unpublished / Informally Published Work |
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Unpublished Work Accepted for publication |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Normal use of unpublished class. author = "R. Briscoe", title = "Egocentric spatial representation in action and perception", note = "unpublished" } |
Website / Webpage |
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Author and date given |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Use misc class, entering "[Online]" in year field. author = "R. Roth", title = "75 years ago, the {D}oolittle {R}aid changed history", howpublished = "CNN", month = "Apr. 18,", year = "2017 [Online]", url = "http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/18/us/75th-anniversary-doolittle-raid/index.html" } |
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Organization as author |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Use misc class. Use brackets around organization as author and enter "[Online]" in year field. author = {{Federal Bureau of Investigation}}, title = {Forging papers to sell fake art}, month = "Apr. 6,", year = "2017 [Online]", url = "https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/forging-papers-to-sell-fake-art" } |
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Organization as author, no date given |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Use misc class, using double brackets around author to retain capitalization, entering period in title, entering "online" in howpublished. author = {{Department of Defense}}, title = {{About the Department of Defense (DOD).}}, howpublished = "Accessed Apr. 18, 2017 [Online]", url = "https://www.defense.gov/About/" } |
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Janes example |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Use misc class, placing many elements in howpublished. title = "Mali: Executive summary", howpublished = {Jane's, May 31, 2017 [Online]}, url = "https://customer.janes.com/" } |
Wikipedia |
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Wikipedia |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Use misc class, placing many elements in howpublished. Note italics command for "Wikipedia." title = "Psychology", howpublished = {\emph{Wikipedia}. Accessed May 17, 2011 [Online]}, url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology" } |
Working Paper / Occasional Paper |
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Working Paper / Occasional Paper |
Always check your output against the Citation Guide example. Misc works well, placing many elements in howpublished. author = "U. Q. Sushi", title = "Three-handed {F}ibonacci model for optimizing surface-to-volume ratio of temaki in {H}ilbert space", howpublished = "working paper, Donburi Inst. of Int. Gastron, Pierre, SD, USA, 2021 [Online]", url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology" } |
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