ELC2014 - Advanced English for University Studies

Sometimes, you may have questions when inputting author names in the manual input references such as: Should I input the first name or the last name first for the author? How to input an institutional author name correctly? What if there are multiple authors? Below are some useful tips regarding these issues.

1) Personal author:

You can input by either:

1. First Name then Middle Name and Last Name without comma (e.g. Brian T.M. Chan), or
2. Last Name, First Name and then Middle Name (e.g. Chan, Brian T.M.)

To avoid confusion in authors' last names and first names, we recommend that you use a consistent way in dealing with their last names. This means, if you prefer using the second method of handling author last names, we recommend that you consistently do that for all authors.

2) Institutional author:

To show the institution name correctly in the author field, you must put a comma after the institution name.

e.g.: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,

To show both the department and the institution name, please put double comma between the department and institution name. 

e.g.: School of Hotel and Tourism Management,, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,

3) Multiple authors:

Please input one author per line. Press the <Enter> key to go to the next line in the author field. 

e.g.: Murphy, James     <Enter>
        Adams, Douglas