Books

If the city of publication might be unfamiliar or easily confused with another city, add the abbreviation for the province/state. Where two or more cities are given, include only the first. For publisher names you can leave out “Inc.”, “Ltd.”, “Co.” or “Company.” For reprints, you may include the date of the original edition in square brackets before the current publication date.

Book (Print)

Wright, Miriam Carol. 2001. A Fishery for

Modern Times: The State and the

Industrialization of the Newfoundland

Fishery, 1934-1968. Toronto: Oxford

University Press.

Book, multiple authors (Print)

In the reference list include all authors' names, no matter how many. (But in your in-text citation for more than 3 authors, list the first author followed by "et al.")

Katona, Steven K., Valerie Rough, and David

T. Richardson. 1993. A Field Guide to

the Whales, Porpoises, and Seals from

Cape Cod to Newfoundland. 4th ed.

Washington: Smithsonian Institution

Press.

E-Book (Downloaded)

If you downloaded it to your device or ebook reader, indicate the format (e.g. iBooks, Kindle, Kobo, Adobe Digital Editions PDF, etc.).

Austen, Jane. [1813] 2007. Pride and Prejudice.

New York: Penguin Classic. Kobo.

E-Book (Library Database)

If you accessed it through the library, give the DOI or “Digital Object Identifier” (preferred) or the name of the database (e.g Proquest Ebook Central, EBSCOHost, SpringerLink, Sage, etc.).

Hubbard, Jennifer Mary. 2006. A Science on

the Scales: The Rise of Canadian

Atlantic Fisheries Biology, 1898-1939.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442670464.

E-Book (Internet)

Give the DOI or “Digital Object Identifier” (preferred) or the URL.

Austen, Jane. 1918. Pride and Prejudice. New

York: Charles Schribner's Sons.

http://books.google.ca/books/about/

Pride_and_Prejudice.html?id=

s1gVAAAAYAAJ.

Edited Book (Editor instead of an author)

Add the abbreviation "ed." (or "eds." for multiple editors).

Robinson, Francis, ed. 1996. Cambridge

Illustrated History of the Islamic World.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Edited Book (Editor in addition to an author)

When editors' names follow the title, use "Edited by."

Bonnefoy, Yves. 1996. New and Selected Poems.

Edited by John Naughton and Anthony

Rudolf. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press.

Article/Chapter in an Edited Book

Vietmeyer, Noel. 1992. "Forgotten Roots of the

Incas." In Chilies to Chocolate: Food the

Americas Gave the World, edited by

Nelson Foster and Linda S. Cordell,

95-117. Tucson: University of Arizona

Press.

Edition of a Book (Other than the first):

Daniels, Roger. 2002. Coming to America: A

History of Immigration and Ethnicity in

American Life. 2nd ed. New York:

Harper Perenial.

 

For more examples of books, please see pp. 238-254 of A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 9th ed. available at the library: LB 2369 T8 2018.