The basic format for print sources is:
Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Date.
As of the 8th edition, city of publication and medium are no longer required unless it is critical to the identification of the source.
Format:
Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Date.
Example:
Freeland, Cynthia. But is it Art? Oxford University Press, 2001.
List author’s names in the same order they are presented in the book.
First author’s name is Last, First and second author’s name is First Last.
Format:
Last Name, First Name and First Name Last Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Date.
Example:
Thomas, Gordon and Greg Lewis. Shadow Warriors of World War II: The Daring Women of the OSS and SOE. Chicago Review Press, 2017.
Forma:
Lastname, Firstname, et al. Title. Publisher, Publication date.
Example:
Wysocki, Anne Frances, et al. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Utah State UP, 2004.
Format:
Organization. Title. Publisher, Publication date.
Examples:
American Allergy Association. Allergies in Children. Random House, 1998.
Fair Housing—Fair Lending. Aspen Law & Business, 1985.
Format:
Lastname, Firstname. "Title of Chapter." Title of Book, edited by Firstname Lastname, Publisher, Publication date, pp. x-x.
Example:
Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. “Whiteness and Manhood.” Major Problems in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 2nd ed., edited by Leon Fink, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2001, pp. 307‐315.
Format:
Lastname, Firstname. Part of Book. Title of Book, edited by Firstname Lastname, Publisher, Publication date, pp. x-x.
Example:
Smith, Helen. Introduction. History of Wells College, edited by Henry Wells, Aurora Press, 2020, pp. 1-3.
If the book has no author, skip that part of the citation and list the book by title first.
Format:
Title. Publisher, Publication date.
Example:
History of Wells College. Aurora Press, 2020.
Format:
Lastname, Firstname. Title. Edition. Publisher, Publication date.
Lastname, Firstname. Title. Publisher, publication date. Database, URL.
Examples:
Anderson, Carol. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide. Kindle ed., Bloomsbury, 2016.
Brackenbury, Alison. Skies. Carcanet Press, Ltd, 2016. EBSCOhost, zeus.wells.edu:2048/ login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/ login.aspx? direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1482915&site =ehost‐live&scope=site.