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Books (5.6)

Basic Format:

Author Last name, First Name. Title of Book. City of
Publication: Publisher, Date of Publication.
Single Author:
Beerling, David. The Emerald Planet: How Plants
Changed Earth's History. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford UP, 2007.
2 or 3 Authors:
Guerrero, Laura K. and Kory Floyd. Nonverbal
Communication in Close Relationships. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006.
3 or More Authors:
Edens, Walter, et al. Teaching Shakespeare.
Princeton : Princeton UP, 1987.
No Author:
Toilet Training and the Feral Child. Philadelphia:
Franklin, 2000.
Editor:
Williams, Mary E., ed. The Terrorist Attach on
America. San Diego: Greenhaven, 2003.
Corporate Author:
American Cancer Society. Cancer: What Causes It,
What Doesn't. Atlanta: American Cancer Society, 2003.
An Edition:
Kupperman, Karen Ordahl. Roanoke: The Abandoned
Colony. 2nd ed. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.
Book in Series:
d'Angelo, Raymond and Herbert Douglas, eds. Taking
Sides:Clashing Views in Race and Ethnicity. 6th ed. Taking Sides. Dubuque: McGraw-Hill, 2008.
A Translation:
Szymborska, Wislawa . Monologue of a Dog: New
Poems. Trans. Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak. Orlando: Harcourt, 2006.
Multivolume Work:
Sbulette, Ned. Cuba and its Music: From the First
Drums to the Mambo. 2 vols. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2004.
Reference Book: Encyclopedia or dictionary familiar
Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. 1989.
Reference Book: Encyclopedia or dictionary NOT familiar
Worell, Judith, ed. Encyclopedia of Women and
Gender: Sex Similarities and Differences and the Impact of Society on Gender. 2 vols. San Diego: Academic Press, 2001.
Anthology:
Rempersad, Arnold, ed. and Hilary Herbold, assoc.
ed. The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford UP, 2006.

Parts Of Books

Basic Format:

Author Last name, First Name. "Title of Chapter or
Part." Title of Book, Anthology or Collection. City ofPublication: Publisher, Date of Publication. Page Numbers.
Book Chapter:
Irwin, Alec. "Talking to the Animals." Talk Talk Talk:
The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation. Ed. S.I. Salamensky. New York: Routledge, 2001. 147-162.
Reference Book Article (5.6.8):
Jones, Stephen F. "Georgia." World Encyclopedia of
Political Systems and Parties. 4th ed. New York: Facts on File, 2006.
Work in an Anthology (5.6.7): Author given
Madgett, Naomi Long. "The Old Women." The Oxford
Anthology of African-American Poetry. Ed. Arnold Rempersad and Hilary Herbold. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford UP, 2006. 182.
Work in an Anthology: No author given
"Raisins and Almonds, Yiddish Lullaby." The Norton
Anthology of Children's Literature: The Traditions in English. Ed. Jack Zipes, et al. New York: W.W. Norton, 2005. 1135.
Dictionary Definition (5.6.8):
"Noon." Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. 1989.

Dictionary Definition: Specific Definition Among Several
"Noon." Def. 4b. Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed.
1989.

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