Books
APA SOURCE MAP: Books
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.
- 1 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.
- 2 Publication year. Enclose the year of publication in parentheses.
- 3 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.
- 4 City and state of publication, and publisher. List the city of publication and the country or state abbreviation, a colon, and the publisher’s name, dropping any Inc., Co., or Publishers.
A citation for the book on p. 469 would look like this:
William Tsutsui, Godzilla on My Mind. Published 2004, Palgrave Macmillan. Reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.