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Book / eBook Format
Book / eBook Format
Print Book
Author(s). Note: Use the format Last Name, First Name Middle Name or Initial. If there are multiple authors, use and before the last author's name.
Title of the Book. Note: Use italics for the title of a longer work like a book and use headline-style capitalization.
Edition Note: If there are multiple editions, use the format 1st/2nd/3rd ed.,
Publisher,
Publication date.
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. 1st ed., J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1960.
eBook
Author(s). Note: Use the format Last Name, First Name Middle Name or Initial. If there are multiple authors, use and before the last author's name.
Title of the Book, Note: Use italics for the title of a longer work like a book and use headline-style capitalization.
Editors Note: If there is one editor, use the format edited by Last Name, First Name. If there are multiple editors, use and before the last author's name.
Publisher,
Publication date.
Database, Note: Use italics for names of databases.
URL or permalink.
Hughes, Langston. Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond, edited by Evelyn Louise Crawford and Mary Louise Patterson. University of California Press, 2016. EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection, http://libproxy.csudh.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xna&AN=1105577&site=ehost-live&scope=site&ebv=EB&.
Colorful Example
Colorful Example
Examples to use as Models
Examples to use as Models
BOOKS AND EBOOKS
FORM: Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. Publisher, Year.
One or Two Authors: Example to Follow:
Picoult, Jodi. The Storyteller: A Novel. UP of Kentucky, 2013.
Gikandi, Simon, and Naomi Jacobs. Slavery and the Culture of Taste. U of California P, 2011. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost), search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.utica.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=380270&site=ehost-live.
3 or More Authors (or Editors): Example
Posamentier, Alfred S., et al. Exemplary Practices for Secondary Math Teachers. Assn. for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2007.
Entry in a Reference Book
Kolb, Charles C. "Turkmen." Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities. Vol. 3, Routledge, 2005, pp. 1223-24.
NOTE: Periods ONLY after title, author, and date; use commas otherwise; end with a period.
Press (P), University (U) are abbreviated. Omit publication city, include year published.
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