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Citation Guide: How to cite BOOKS, eBOOKS, CHAPTERS

A guide for navigating various citation styles in order to create citations for resources cited in research papers.

How to cite BOOKS

Note:

Note number. Author First Last Name, Title (Location of Publisher: Publisher, Year of Pub.), pages cited.

Sample Note:

43. Kathleen E. Welch, Electric Rhetoric: Classical Rhetoric, Oralism and a New Literacy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999), 143.

Bibliography:
Author Last, First Name. Title. Edition. Location of Publisher: Publisher, Year of Pub.

Sample Citation:

Welch, Kathleen E. Electric Rhetoric: Classical Rhetoric, Oralism and a New Literacy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.

How to cite BOOKS with MULTIPLE AUTHORS

Note:

Note number. Author First Last Name and Author First Last Name, Title (Location of Publisher: Publisher, Year of Publication), pages cited.

Sample Note:

3. Kathleen E. Welch and George B. Shaw, Electric Guitars: Classical Strumming, (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007), 99-101.

Sample Note for 4 or more authors:

5. Sam E. Smith, et al. Hammering out your Resume, (Los Angeles: University of California, 2010), 111.

Bibliography:

Author's Last Name, First Name and First Last Name. Title: Subtitle of book. edition. Location: Publisher, Year of Publication.

Sample Citation:

Rodriguez-Garcia, Robert, and Ellen M. White. Self-assessment in Managing for Results: Conducting Self-assessment for Development Practitioners. Boston: University of Massachusetts, 2008.

How to cite eBOOKS (previously published)

Note:

Note number. Author First Last Name and Author First Last Name, Title (Location of Publisher: Publisher, Year of Publication), pages cited, URL or database or doi number or App used.

Sample Note:

3. Harold Speed, The Practice and Science of Drawing (New York: Dover Publications, 1972), 110-11, http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14264.

5. Manisha Paliwal, Business Ethics (New Delhi: New Age International Limited, 2006), 25, ProQuest eBook Central.

7. Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success (Boston: Little, Brown, 2008), 193, Kindle.

Bibliography:

Author's Last Name, First Initial. Middle Initial. Title of book: Subtitle of book. Edition. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of publication. URL or database or doi number or App used.

Sample Citation:

Speed, Harold. The Practice and Science of Drawing. New York: Dover Publications, 1972. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14264.

Paliwal, Manisha. Business Ethics. New Delhi: New Age International Limited, 2006. ProQuest eBook Central.

Gladwell, Malcolm. Outliers: The Story of Success. Boston: Little, Brown, 2008. Kindle.

How to cite CHAPTERS in a book, anthology or article in subject encyclopedia

Note:

Note number. Chapter Author First Last Name and Author First Last Name, “Title of Chapter,” in Title, ed. Editor’s first and Last Names (Location of Publisher: Publisher, Year of Publication), pages cited.

Sample Note:

3. Lucy Grealy, “Fear Itself,” in The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose, ed. Tammy Roberts (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 2002), 451.

Bibliography:

Chapter Author's Last Name, First Name. “Title of chapter or article.” In Title of book: Subtitle of book, Edition, edited by Editor’s First and Last Name, pages. Place of Publication: Publisher, Date of Publication.

Sample Citation:

Grealy, Lucy. “Fear Itself.”  In The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose, edited by Tammy Roberts, 450-61. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 2002.