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.

Author. List all authors’ last names first, and use only initials for first and middle names. For more about citing authors, see models 1–9.

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, 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 pictured below would look like this: