Basic Format:

The author's name appears as last name, first initial. The basic form for a book citation is:

Lastname, F. M. (Year of  Publication). Title of book.  Publisher. DOI if available

 Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle. Publisher Name. DOI (if available)

Example:

Loschiavo , J. (2021). School nursing: The essential reference.  Springer Publishing Company.

Book with More than One Author:
If a book has more then one author, list all authors' names in last name, first initial, middle initial format.

Lastname, F. M., Lastname, F. M., & Lastname, F .M.  (Year of  Publication). Title of book. Publisher.

Example:

Amano, H. & Becan, S. (2021). Let's make dumplings!: A comic book cookbook. Ten Speed Press.

Book with No Author:

List by title of the book first instead of the author's name. Then the publication date and publisher.
Title of book. (Year of Publication). Publisher. 

Book with Group Author (Organization, Corporation, etc.):

Treat the publishing group as the author. Format the rest of the citation as seen in the Basic Format example above.

Groupname. (Year of  Publication). Title of book.  Publisher. DOI if available

An Edition of a Book:

Use the basic citation format for a book and add the number of the edition after the title.

Lastname, F. M. (Year of  Publication). Title of book. (Edition). Publisher.

This information was obtained from the Purdue OWL Online Writing Lab. The example was created for this LibGuide.

1. Author.

2. Date of publication (in parenthesis).

Bunk, B. D. (2021). From football to soccer: The early history of the beautiful game in the United States. University of Illinois Press. https://pulaskitech.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?

A Chapter in a Book or a Work in an Anthology, Reference, or Collection

Examples of these works may include an essay/short story/poem in an edited collection or a chapter of a book.

The basic format is:

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Year of publication). Title of chapter. In E. E. Editor & F. F. Editor (Eds.), Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle (pp. pages of chapter). Publisher. DOI (if available)

Some examples:

Swanson, G. (1998). Graphic design education as a liberal art: Design and knowledge in the university and the 'real world'. In Steven Heller (Ed.), The education of a graphic designer (pp. 13-24). Allworth Press. 

Whitman, W. (1991). I sing the body electric. In Selected poems (pp. 12-19). Dover.

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