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Brookhaven College Library

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Proper Format:

Author’s last name, first name. Title of Book. Publication information.

Examples:

Book by a Single Author

Zelizer, Barbie.  Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Book by Two or Three Authors

Timberg, Bernard M., and Robert J. Erler.  Television Talk: a History of the TV Talk Show.  Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2002.

Book by More than Three Authors

Tognetti, Arlene, et al.  The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Tarot and Fortune-telling.  New York: Alpha Books, 1999.

Book with an Anonymous Author

The Complete Mental Health Directory: A Comprehensive Sourcebook for Individuals and Professionals.  Lakeville, CT: Grey House Pub., 1999.

Book with an Editor

André, Maria Claudia, ed.  Chicanas and Latin American Writers Exploring the Realm of the Kitchen as a Self-empowering Site.  Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellin Press, 2001.

Book with Author and Editor

Associated Press.  Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law.  Ed. Norm Goldstein.  New York: Basic Books, 2004.

Edition Other than the First

Rose, James M., and Alice Eichholz. Black genesis: a resource book for African American Genealogy.  2nd ed.  Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 2003.

Encyclopedia

Lipscomb, Carol A. “Karankawa Indians.” The Handbook of Texas.  Austin, TX: Texas State Historical Association.  1996.  1031-1033.

Introduction, Preface, Foreword or Afterword

Cloud, Jr., Sanford.  Foreward.  How to be a Perfect Stranger: A Guide to Etiquette in Other People’s Religious Ceremonies.  Eds. Arthur J. Magida & Stuart M. Matlins.  Woodstock, VT: Skylight Paths Pub., 1999.  15-16.

Multivolume Work

Levy, Leonard W. and Kenneth L. Karst, eds.  Encyclopedia of the American Constitution.  6 vols.  New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2000.

Work in an Anthology or Chapter in a Book

“Fences.”  Drama for Students. Ed. David Galens.  Vol. 3.  Detroit: Gale, 1998.  180-197.