There have been some questions coming through on AskLive from students about there BIOL270 Ecology report and CSE referencing style.

Damian and I are the Biological Sciences Subject Librarians so please direct students to get in touch with us if they need help.

We have a guide for CSE style on our website: https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/library/support/citations-and-referencing/cse-citation-style/

Also the students may be using EndNote. I’ve had a lot of trouble getting the CSE Style included with the download for EndNote by IT but the lecturer has provided the CSE EndNote style on the Learn page.

CSE requires abbreviated journal titles, but the lecturer has said he’s happy to accept references with non-abbreviated journal titles which is good. Abbreviating journal titles is confusing for students, even more so if they want to do it in EndNote though technically possible. There are instructions for abbreviations on our EndNote guide if a student is really keen to give it a go.

Cheers,

Nick