Print Books Citations

Basic format for a book

For most books, arrange the information into three units, each followed by a period and one space:

  1. Author's name, Last name, comma, First name, period.
  2. The title italicized( capitalizing the first word, the last word and all principal words), period
  3. The place of publication, colon, the publisher, and the date, period.
  4. Medium of publication consulted . (Print)
  5. If you need additional lines to finish your citation, always indent 5 spaces after the first line in your citation.

Take the information about the book from the title page and copyright page. Use a short form of the publisher's name; omit terms such as Press, Inc., and Co. except when naming university presses (Harvard UP, for example). If the copyright page lists more than one date, use the most recent one.

Book by one author:

Berg, Elizabeth. Joy School. New York: Ballantine, 1997. Print.

Book by two or three authors:

NOTE: Arrange authors name as they are presented on the title page. Present the first author last name first but list the other authors' name in normal form.

Nokem, Marcia and Donald Thorman. The Delicate Balance.
     Los Angeles: Bering, 2001. Print.

Halka, Suzanne, Diane R. Puzio, and Lori Nord. Teaching as a Profession.
     York, PA: Cascade, 2004. Print.

Book with four or more authors:

NOTE : First author's name (last name first, followed by "et al.")

Stambaugh, Alan Q.,et al. The CIA: An Unauthorized History.
     San Francisco: Hartwick UP,2003.Print.

Book with editor(s):

  1. Editor name (Last name first) , followed by label ed.
  2. The title italicized( capitalizing the first word, the last word and all principal words).
  3. The place of publication: the publisher, the date.
  4. Medium of publication consulted .
  5. If you need additional lines to finish your citation, always indent 5 letters after the first line in your citation.

Take the information about the book from the title page and copyright page. Use a short form of the publisher's name; omit terms such as Press, Inc., and Co. except when naming university presses (Harvard UP, for example). If the copyright page lists more than one date, use the most recent one.

 
Shell, Marc, ed. American Babel: Literatures of the United States from Abnaki to Zuni.
     Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2002. Print.

(Note: For books with more than one editor, list names as you would for authors. Follow names by "eds.")

Van Nest, Sally, and Alicia Evans, eds. Best Short Fiction of 2003.
     New York: Alsace, 2004. Print.

Corporate Author

An corporate author is a group. It can be an association, a business, a foundation or other entities.

  1.  The corporate author's name .
  2. The title italicized (capitalizing the first word, the last word and all principal words).
  3. The place of publication, colon, the publisher, and the date, period.
  4. Medium of publication consulted.
  5. If you need additional lines to finish your citation, always indent 5 letters after the first line in your citation.

Urban Land Institute. Cities Post-9/11. Washington: Urban Land Inst., 2002. Print.