Ethnography, step by step (2nd edition), by David M. Fetterman, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998.

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Employing a Qualitative Description Approach in Health Care Research (2017, unknown): “According to Fetterman (1998), interviews take the researcher into the “heart of the phenomenon classifying and organising an individual’s perception of reality” (p. 40).”
The Impact of Network Relationships, Prison Experiences, and Internal Transformation on Women's Success After Prison Release (2010, background): “The underlying idea is that an individual’s lifecourse can only be understood when it is placed into the context of the trajectory of their social life (Fetterman, 1998).”
College Experiences for Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Personal Identity, Public Disclosure, and Institutional Support (2017, methodology): “Following the guidelines outlined by Fetterman (1998), semistructured interviews were January 2017 ◆ vol 58 / no 1 75 TABLE 1.”
A Proposal for Internationalizing Counseling Psychology in the United States: (2003, background): “Among specific qualitative research approaches that have been neglected in multicultural psychology and that we believe give particular voice to previously silenced culturally diverse client populations are life stories, oral histories, and biographies (Ponterotto, Jackson, & Nutini, 2001; Smith, 19”