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Works Cited page entry: Book

Type of source Sample entry in reference list
Book (1):
No author given
 College Bound Seniors. Princeton: College Board Publications, 1979.
Book (2):
Two authors

 Lloyd, Donald A., and Harry R. Warfel. American English and Its Cultural

Setting. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956.

Book (3):
Four authors as editors

 Greenberger, Martin, Julius Aronofsky, James L. McKenney, and William F.

Massy, eds. Networks for Research and Education: Sharing of

Computer and Information Resources Nationwide. Cambridge: MIT

Press, 1974.

Book (4):
Translation

 Thielicke, Helmut. Man In God's World. Translated and edited by John W.

Doberstein. New York: Harper and Row, 1963.

Book (5):
Edition of another author's work

 Wordsworth, William. Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Edited by E. de

Selincourt and H. Darbishire. 2nd ed. 5 vols. Oxford: Oxford

University Press, 1952.

Book (6):
Chapter in an edited collection

 Kaiser, Ernest. "The Literature of Harlem." In Harlem: A Community in

Transition, edited by J. H. Clarke. New York: Citadel Press, 1964.

[Inclusive page numbers are optional in a bibliographical entry for a chapter in an edited collection.]

Book (7):
Edition other than the first

 McCloskey, Donald N. The Applied Theory of Price. 2nd ed. New York:

Macmillan, 1985.

Book (8):
More than one book by the same author

 ---. Enterprise and Trade in Victorian England: Essays in Historical

Economics. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1981.

 


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