Book by One Author:
Format:
Author's Last Name, First name. Title of Book. Publisher, Year.
Example:
Hill, Fred James, and Nicholas Awde. A History of the Islamic World. Hippocrene Books, 2003.
Book by Two Authors:
Format:
Author's Last Name, First Name, and First Name Last Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Year.
Example:
Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Allyn and Bacon, 2000.
Book by Three or More Authors:
Format:
Author's Last name, First Name, et al. Title of Book. Publisher, Year.
Example:
Wysocki, Anne Frances, et al. Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Utah State UP, 2004.
Ebook Examples:
Ebook
Silva, Paul J. How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing. E-book, American Psychological Association, 2007.
Ebook from a Database
Shakur, Assata. Assata: An Autobiography. Zed Books, 1987. Black Thought and Culture, https://cod.idm.oclc.org/loginurl=https://search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cbibliographic_details%7C4390514?account_id=10202&usage_group_id=106547.
Tip: Include the city of publication if the book was printed prior to 1900 or for a publisher that has offices in more than one country.
Example: Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850.
Format:
Author’s Last name, First name. “Title of Chapter or Section.” Title of the Work, edited by First name Last name, Publisher, Year the book was published, page number(s).
Example:
Stern, Katherine. "Toni Morrison's Beauty Formula." The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison: Speaking the Unspeakable, edited by Marc. C. Conner, University Press of Mississippi, 2000, pp. 77-91.