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About Citing Books

When you're finding books for your research, make note of the author name(s), book title, publication date, publisher, and place of publication.

The medium of publication for all “hard copy” books is Print.

For each type of source in this guide, both the general form and a specific example will be provided.

The following format will be used:

Parenthetical Citation - entry that appears in the body of your paper.

Works Cited - entry that appears at the end of your paper.

Information on citing and several of the examples were drawn from the MLA Handbook (7th ed.)

Numbers in parentheses refer to specific pages in the manual.

Anthology or Compilation (153-154)

The following general format and examples refer to an anthology or compilation that has been put together by an editor.  If a compiler was responsible for the work instead of an editor, use "comp." without the quotation marks, instead of "ed."
 
General Format 
 
In-Text Citation:
(Editor Surname page number)
 
Works Cited:

Editor Surname, First Name, ed. Book Title: Subtitle. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year. Medium.

 
Example
In-Text Citation:
(Gentile 227-29) 
 
Works Cited:

Gentile, Kathy J., ed.  Sexting the Look in Popular Visual Culture. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2010. Print.