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. Look carefully at the differences in punctuation between the note and the bibliographic entry.

Author. In a note, list the author(s) first name first. In a bibliographic entry, list the first author last name first. List other authors first name first.

Title. Italicize the title and subtitle and capitalize all major words.

City of publication and publisher. List the city (and country or state abbreviation for an unfamiliar city) followed by a colon. In a note only, city, publisher, and year appear in parentheses. Drop Inc., Co., Publishing, or Publishers. Follow with a comma.

Publication year. In a bibliographic entry only, end with a period.

Page number. In a note only, end with the page number and a period.

Citations for the book pictured below would look like this: