Take information from the book’s title page and copyright page (on the reverse side of the title page), not from the book’s cover or a library catalog.

Author. List all authors’ last names first, and use only initials for first and middle names. For more about citing authors, see models 1–5.

Publication year. Enclose the year of publication in parentheses.

Title. Italicize the title and any subtitle. Capitalize only the first word of the title and the subtitle and any proper nouns or proper adjectives.

City and state of publication. List the city of publication and the country or state abbreviation followed by a colon.

Publisher. Give the publisher’s name, dropping any Inc., Co., or Publishers.

A citation for the book below would look like this:

Tsutsui, W. (2004). Godzilla on my mind: Fifty years of the king of monsters. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.