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One author |
Author Last name, First name. Year of Publication. Book Title. City, State of Publication: Publisher. Rees, Jonathan. 2013. Refrigeration Nation: A History of Ice, Appliances, and Enterprise in America. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Note: For major American cities (e.g. New York, Los Angeles, Boston), it is not necessary to include a state of publication. For books published internationally, include the city and country of publication. Ryan, Jennifer D. 2010. Post-Jazz Poetics: A Social History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Bruce, Steve. 1999. Sociology: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. |
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Two or more authors |
First author Last name, First name, and Second author First name Last name. Year of Publication. Book Title. City, State of Publication: Publisher. Jaynes, Gerald D., and Robin M. Williams, Jr. 1989. A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. Patten, Michael A., Guy McCaskie, and Philip Unitt. 2003. Birds of the Salton Sea: Status, Biogeography, and Ecology. Berkeley: University of California Press. Note: only invert the name of the first author; other author names should be given in normal order. |
Edited book |
Editor Last name, First name, ed. Year of Publication. Book Title. City, State of Publication: Publisher. Koshar, Rudy, ed. 1990. Splintered Classes. New York: Homes and Meier. Hagen, John, and Ruth D. Peterson, eds. 1995. Crime and Inequality. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. |
Edited book, edition other than the first |
Editor Last name, First name, ed. Year of Publication. Book Title. Edition number. City, State of Publication: Publisher. Little, Roderick J.A., and Donald B. Rubin. 2002. Statistical Analyses with Missing Data. 2nd ed. New York: John Wiley. |
Chapter or essay in an anthology or edited book |
Chapter author Last name, First name. Year of Publication. "Title of Chapter." Pp. page numbers in Title of Book, edited by Editor First initial. Last name. City, State of Publication: Publisher. Deener, Andrew. 2014. "Neighborhood Symbiosis." Pp. 135-47 in The Urban Ethnography Reader, edited by M. Duneier, P. Kasinitz, and A. K. Murphy. New York: Oxford University Press. |
E-Book, from a database |
Author Last name, First name. Year of Publication. Book Title. City, State of Publication: Publisher. Retrieved Month Day, Year (URL). Massumi, Brian. 2015. The Power at the End of the Economy. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Retrieved November 16, 2015 (http://pvcc.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1894985). Note: If a book is available in more than one format (e.g. print or e-book), the citation can be formatted to include both versions. Blau, Judith, and Mark Frezzo. 2012. Sociology and Human Rights: A Bill of Rights for the Twenty-First Century. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. (Also available at http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483349121.) |
Online only book |
Author Last name, First name. Year of Publication. Book Title. Publishing or sponsoring organization. Retrieved Month Day, Year (URL). Young, T. R. 1999. Crime and Social Justice: Theory and Policy for the 21st Century. Red Feather Institute. Retrieved June 22, 2010 (http://uwacadweb.uwyo.edu/RED_FEATHER/crime/001contents.html). |