Citations for whole books that are not part of a multi-volume set require all elements of book references if they exist. For example, ebooks require DOIs or URLs, while print books do not.
The Template provides elements in order with appropriate punctuation and italicization where required. Each of the Examples shows a fully formatted example.
Template: Books
Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Year.
Hardman, John. The Life of Louis XVI. Yale UP, 2016.
King, Stephen and Peter Straub. The Talisman. Putnam, 1984.
Nagasaki, Masao, et al. Foundations of Systems Biology: Using Cell Illustrator and Pathway Databases. Springer, 2009.
International Association of Fire Chiefs. Live Fire Training: Principles and Practice. Jones & Bartlett, 2012.
Dosage Calculations: An Incredibly Easy! Workout. Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2009.
Patten, Mildred. Understanding Research Methods: An Overview of the Essentials. 7th ed., Pryczak Publishing, 2009.
Last name, First name. Title of Work. Translated by Full Name, Publisher, Year.
Example:
Murakami, Haruki. Norwegian Wood. Translated by Jay Rubin, Vintage International, 2000.
Last name, First name, translator. Title of Work. By Author Name, Publisher, Year.
Felber, Christian. Change Everything: Creating an Economy for the Common Good. Translated by Susan Nurmi, Zed Books Ltc., 2015.
Last name, First name. "Title of section." Entire work Title. Edited by (optional), Publisher, Year, Page Numbers.
Leroux, Louis Patrick and Charles R. Batson, editors. Cirque Global: Quebec's Expanding Circus Boundaries. McGill-Queen's UP, 2016.
Ashe, Fred. "The really Big Sleep: Jeffrey Lebowski as the Second Coming of Rip Van Winkle." The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies. Edited by Edward P. Comentale and Aaron Jaffe, Indiana UP, 2009, 41-57.
Last Name, First Name. Title of Thesis or Dissertation. Type of Thesis, Name of University, Year.
Alrayes, Tareq. Attitudes of Lamar University Faculty Toward Deaf Adults. MA Thesis, Lamar University, 2004.
Last Name, First Name. Title of Thesis or Dissertation. Type of Thesis, Name of University, Year. Database Name, URL.
"Title of Entry." Title of Reference Book. Publisher, Year.
"Zambia." Geography of the World. Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc., 2009.
Author(s). Title of Work. Publisher, Year. # Vols.
Pont, Beatriz, et al. Improving School Leadership. OECD, 2008. 2 Vols.
Author(s). Title of Book. Edition (if any), Publisher, Year. Name of Database, URL.
Hall, Stephen. Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers. 5th ed., Butterworth-Heinemann, 2012. Knovel, app.knovel.com/web/toc/id:kpRTCEE002/rules-thumb-chemical/rules-thumb-chemical.
If you have more than one resource by the same author, list the author’s name for the first item only. After, place three hyphens followed by a period (---.) for each subsequent item by the author. The title follows the period. If the individual performed a role other than author for a work, place a comma after the three hyphens (instead of the period) and list the role (editor, translator, etc.) before moving on to the title.
Organize resources alphabetically by title (terms describing person's roles are not considered in alphabetization).
Last name, First name. Title of First Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year. Medium.
---. Title of Second Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year. Medium.
The purpose of citations is to make items easily retrievable for others so it is important to fill them out as completely and accurately as possible. If an item is irrelevant or missing, omit it from the citation.
The following abbreviations are recommended for use in the works-cited list, and in in-text citations. Where confusion may result, spell out the words instead. The plurals of the noun abbreviations given here other than p. are formed through the addition of s (e.g., chs.).
ch.: chapter
dept.: department
ed.: edition
e.g.: for example (from the Latin exempli gratia; set off by commas, unless preceded by a different punctuation mark)
et al.: and others (from the Latin et alii, et aliae, et alia)
etc.: and others so forth (from the Latin et cetera; like most abbreviations, not appropriate in text)
i.e.: that is (from the Latin id est; set off by commas, unless preceded by a different punctuation mark).
no.: number
P: Press (used in documentation in names of academic presses: "MIT P")
p., pp.: page, pages
par.: paragraph
qtd. in: quoted in
rev.: revised
sec.: section
trans.: translation
U: University (also French Université, German Universität, Italian Università, Spanish Universidad, etc.; used in documentation: "U of Tennessee, Knoxville")
UP: University Press (used in documentation: "Columbia UP")
vol.: volume
November: Nov.
December: Dec.
January: Jan.
February: Feb.
March: Mar.
April: Apr.
May: May
June: June
July: July
August: Aug.
September: Sept.
October: Oct.
November: Nov.
December: Dec.
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