Print books
6. basic format for a book.Begin with the author name(s). (See models 1–5.) Then include the publication year, title and subtitle, city of publication, country or state abbreviation, and publisher. The source map on pp. 468–69 shows where to find this information in a typical book.
7. editor. For a book with an editor but no author, list the source under the editor’s name.
To cite a book with an author and an editor, place the editor’s name, with a comma and the abbreviation Ed., in parentheses after the title.
Austin, J. (1995). The province of jurisprudence determined. (W. E. Rumble, Ed.). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
8. selection in a book with an editor
9. translation
Al-Farabi, A. N. (1998). On the perfect state (R. Walzer, Trans.). Chicago, IL: Kazi.
10. edition other than the first
Moore, G. S. (2002). Living with the earth: Concepts in environmental health science (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Lewis.
11. multivolume work with an editor
Barnes, J. (Ed.). (1995). Complete works of Aristotle (Vols. 1–2). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Note: If you cite just one volume of a multivolume work, list that volume, not the complete span of volumes, in parentheses after the title.
12. article in a reference work
Dean, C. (1994). Jaws and teeth. In The Cambridge encyclopedia of human evolution (pp. 56–59). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
If no author is listed, begin with the title.
13.republished book
Piaget, J. (1952). The language and thought of the child. London, England: Routledge & Kegan Paul. (Original work published 1932)
14. introduction, preface, foreword, or afterword
Klosterman, C. (2007). Introduction. In P. Shirley, Can I keep my jersey? 11 teams, 5 countries, and 4 years in my life as a basketball vagabond (pp. v–vii). New York, NY: Villard-Random House.
15. book with a title within the title. Do not italicize or enclose in quotation marks a title within a book title.
Klarman, M. J. (2007). Brown v. Board of Education and the civil rights movement. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.