Print books
6. basic format for a book.Begin with the author name(s). (See models 1–5.) Then include the title and subtitle, the city of publication and publisher, the publication year, and finally the medium (Print). The source map on pp. 416–17 shows where to find this information in a typical book.
Note: Place a period and a space after the name, title, and date. Place a colon after the city and a comma after the publisher, and shorten the publisher’s name—omit Co. or Inc., and abbreviate University Press to UP.
7. author and editor both named
Note: To cite the editor’s contribution instead, begin the entry with the editor’s name.
Marcus, Greil, ed. Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung. By Lester Bangs. New York: Knopf, 1988. Print.
8. editor, no author named
Wall, Cheryl A., ed. Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory, and Writing by Black Women. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1989. Print.
9. anthology. Cite an entire anthology the same way you would cite a book with an editor and no named author (see model 8).
10. work in an anthology or chapter in a book with an editor. List the author(s) of the selection; the selection title, in quotation marks; the title of the book, italicized; the abbreviation Ed. and the name(s) of the editor(s); publication information; and the selection’s page numbers.
Note: Use the following format to provide original publication information for a reprinted selection:
Byatt, A. S. “The Thing in the Forest.” New Yorker 3 June 2002: 80-89. Rpt. in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2003. Ed. Laura Furman. New York: Anchor, 2003. 3-22. Print.
11. two or more items from the same anthology. List the anthology as one entry (see model 9). Also list each selection separately with a cross-reference to the anthology.
Salzer, Susan K. “Miss Libbie Tells All.” Walker 199-212. Print.
12. translation
Bolaño, Roberto. 2666. Trans. Natasha Wimmer. New York: Farrar, 2008. Print.
13. book with both translator and editor. List the editor’s and the translator’s names after the title, in the order they appear on the title page.
Kant, Immanuel. “Toward Perpetual Peace” and Other Writings on Politics, Peace, and History. Ed. Pauline Kleingeld. Trans. David L. Colclasure. New Haven: Yale UP, 2006. Print.
14. translation of a section of a book. If different translators have worked on various parts of the book, identify the translator of the part you are citing.
García Lorca, Federico. “The Little Mad Boy.” Trans. W. S. Merwin. The Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca. Ed. Francisco García Lorca and Donald M. Allen. London: Penguin, 1969. Print.
15. translation of a book by an unknown author
Grettir’s Saga. Trans. Denton Fox and Hermann Palsson. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1974. Print.
16. book in a language other than english. Include a translation of the title in brackets, if necessary.
Benedetti, Mario. La borra del café [The Coffee Grind]. Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 2000. Print.
17. graphic narrative. If the words and images are created by the same person, cite a graphic narrative just as you would a book (model 6).
Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. New York: Houghton, 2006. Print.
If the work is a collaboration, indicate the author or illustrator who is most important to your research before the title of the work. List other contributors after the title, in the order of their appearance on the title page. Label each person’s contribution to the work.
Stavans, Ilan, writer. Latino USA: A Cartoon History. Illus. Lalo Arcaraz. New York: Basic, 2000. Print.
18. edition other than the first
Walker, John A. Art in the Age of Mass Media. 3rd ed. London: Pluto, 2001. Print.
19. one volume of a multivolume work. Give the number of the volume cited after the title. Including the total number of volumes after the medium is optional.
Ch’oe, Yong-Ho, Peter Lee, and William Theodore De Barry, eds. Sources of Korean Tradition. Vol. 2. New York: Columbia UP, 2000. Print. 2 vols.
20. two or more volumes of a multivolume work
Ch’oe, Yong-Ho, Peter Lee, and William Theodore De Barry, eds. Sources of Korean Tradition. 2 vols. New York: Columbia UP, 2000. Print.
21. preface, foreword, introduction, or afterword. After the writer’s name, describe the contribution. After the title, indicate the book’s author (with By) or editor (with Ed.).
Moore, Thurston. Introduction. Confusion Is Next: The Sonic Youth Story. By Alec Foege. New York: St. Martin’s, 1994. xi. Print.
22. entry in a reference book. For a well-known encyclopedia, note the edition (if identified) and year of publication. If the entries are alphabetized, omit publication information and page number.
Kettering, Alison McNeil. “Art Nouveau.” World Book Encyclopedia. 2002 ed. Print.
23. book that is part of a series. Cite the series name (and number, if any) from the title page.
Nichanian, Marc, and Vartan Matiossian, eds. Yeghishe Charents: Poet of the Revolution. Costa Mesa: Mazda, 2003. Print. Armenian Studies Ser. 5.
24. republication (modern edition of an older book). Indicate the original publication date after the title.
Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. 1813. New York: Dover, 1996. Print.
25. publisher’s imprint. If the title page gives a publisher’s imprint, hyphenate the imprint and the publisher’s name.
Hornby, Nick. About a Boy. New York: Riverhead-Penguin Putnam, 1998. Print.
26. book with a title within the title. Do not italicize a book title within a title. For an article title within a title, italicize as usual and place the article title in quotation marks.
Mullaney, Julie. Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things: A Reader’s Guide. New York: Continuum, 2002. Print.
Rhynes, Martha. “I, Too, Sing America”: The Story of Langston Hughes. Greensboro: Morgan, 2002. Print.
27. sacred text. To cite individual published editions of sacred books, begin the entry with the title.
Qur’an: The Final Testament (Authorized English Version) with Arabic Text. Trans. Rashad Khalifa. Fremont: Universal Unity, 2000. Print.