BOOK CITATIONS
Created by 
Unit 5 Language Arts 
Normal West High School
The following models will help you write WORKS CITED entries for most but not all of the sources you will use.  If you use a type of source not treated in these samples, consult your teacher. 

 * Remember, you must alphabetize your list and use hanging indentation.

Book by one author:

Abernathy, Charles F. Civil Rights: Cases and Materials.  St. Paul:  
       West Publishing Co., 1980.
Two or more books by the same author:
Gould, Stephen Jay.  The Mismeasure of Man.  New York: Norton, 
        1981.      

Gould, Stephen Jay.  The Panda's Thumb:  More Reflections in 
        Natural History.  New York: Norton, 1980.
Book with two or three authors:  
 (Notice that only the first author's name is in inverted order.)

Cook, Mark and Robert McHenry.  Sexual Attraction.  New York: 
       Pergamon, 1978.

Brusaw, Charles, Gerald J. Alfred and Walter E. Oliu.  The Business 
       Writer's Handbook.  New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1976.*

*When two or three authors are given, these must be cited in the order that they appear on the book itself, not necessarily alphabetically.
Book by more than three authors:

Sheridan, Marion C. and others.  The Motion Picture and the Teaching 
      of English. New York:  Appleton, 1965.
Book by an anonymous author:
Beowulf.  Trans. Kevin Crossley-Holland.  New York:  Farrar, 1968.
Book with only an editor:

Zaranka, William, ed.  The Brand-X Anthology of Poetry.  Cambridge, 
      MA: Apple-Wood, 1981.
Book with two or more editors:

Johnson, Beulah and Homer Simpson, eds.  Cartoons in American 
       History.  Boston: Pullor Press, 1993.

Doright, Dudley and others, eds.  The Canadian Mounties: A Visual 
      History.  Toronto:  Viking Press,  1996.
Book with an editor and an author:

Shakespeare, William.  Shakespeare:  Major Plays and the  
      Sonnets. Ed. G. B. Harrison.  New York: Harcourt, 1948.
Work in a collection or anthology:

*Specialized encyclopedias also follow this format.

Brandt, Deborah.  "Social Foundations of Reading and Writing." 
      Convergences: Actions in Reading and Writing.  Ed. Bruce T. 
      Peterson. Urbana: Visual Resources, Inc.,1986.
Work reprinted in a collection or anthology:

Sage, George H.  "Sport in American Society:  Its Pervasiveness and  
      Its Study."  Sport and American Society.  1980.  Rpt. in 
      Physical Activity and the Social Sciences.  Ed. W. Neil   
      Widmeyer. 5th ed. Ithaca, NY: Mouvement, 1983. *

First give data for the earlier publication as shown above;
 then give the reprinted source.
An article reprinted in a book of collected essays:

Holland, Norman H.  "The Unity of Male Characters in Hemingway's 
      A Farewell to Arms."  Hemingway Review. 1983.  Rpt. in A 
      Critical Study of Hemingway's War Novels.  Ed. Nick Adams.  
      Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
An article reprinted in a book of literary criticism:

Maddocks, Melvin.  "Suburban Furies."  Time. 19 July 1976.   
      Ed.  Jean C. Stine.  Contemporary Literary Criticism.  Vol. 30.
      Detroit:  Gale Research Inc., 1984.

Barnes, John.  Penguin Henry Lawson: Short Stories. 1986.  Eds. Drew
      Kalasky and others.  Short Story Criticism.  Vol. 18.  Detroit: Gale 
      Research, Inc., 1995.
Article in Opposing Viewpoints, Current Controversies, Taking Sides, Pro Con and other similar collections

Endres, Michael.  "The Death Penalty is Immoral."  The Morality of Capital

      Punishment.  8 Feb. 1995.  Rpt. in Opposing Viewpoints:  The Death Penalty. 

      Eds. David Bender and Bruno Leone.  San Diego: Greenhaven Press, Inc. 1996.
Multivolume work:

Asimov, Isaac.  The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science.  Vol. 2.  New 
      York:  Basic, 1960.

Edition other than the first:

Gibaldi, Joseph.  MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.  
      4th ed. New York: MLA, 1995.
Book in translation:

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.  Faust, Part One and Part Two.    
      Trans. Charles E. Passage.  New York:  Bobbs, 1965.
Book with a title within its title:

Basinger, Jeanine.  The  A Farewell to Arms Book of Natural 
      Criticism.  New York:  Alfred Knopf, 1991.
25 September 2005 by Karen Slabe