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First reference: Book

Type of source Sample entry in reference list
Book (1):
Single author, 1st edition:
     4. Donald N. McCloskey, Enterprise and Trade

in Victorian Britain: Essays in Historical Economics

(London: George Allen and Unwin, 1981), 54.
Book (2):
Single author, later edition
     5.  Donald N. McCloskey, The Applied Theory of Price,

2nd ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1985), 24.
Book (3):
2 or 3 authors
     6.  Donald A. Lloyd and Harry R. Warfel, American English

and Its Cultural Setting (New York: Alfred A. Knopf,

1956), 12.

[If there is a third author, follow this example: James Smith, Donald Marc, and Jack Jones.]

Book (4):
More than 3 authors
     7.  Martin Greenberger et al., eds., Networks for

Research and Education: Sharing of Computer and Information

Resources Nationwide (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1974), 50.
Book (5):
Unknown author
     8.  College Bound Seniors (Princeton: College Board

Publications, 1979), 1.
Book (6):
Author and an editor or translator
     9.  Helmut Thielicke, Man in God's World, trans. and

ed. John W. Doberstein (New York: Harper and Row, 1963), 12.

Book (7):
Reprint

 

     10. Gunnar Myrdal, Population: A Problem for Democracy

(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1940; reprint, Gloucester,

MA: Peter Smith, 1956), 9. 
Anthology
     11.  Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, ed. E. de

Selincourt and H. Darbishire, 2nd ed., vol. 2 (Oxford:

Oxford University Press, 1952), 10.
Chapter in an edited collection
     12. Ernest Kaiser, "The Literature of Harlem," in

Harlem: A Community in Transition, ed. J. H. Clarke

(New York: Citadel Press, 1964), 64.

 


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