Authors, Books & e-Books
Core Elements for books:
Author. Title of source. Other Contributors, Version, Number, Publisher, Publication Date, Page number range (for chapters. Database, DOI/Permanent link/URL.
One Author
Vermette, Katherena. The Circle. Hamish Hamilton, 2023.
- The author’s name is reversed, title is in italics
Two Authors
Butler, Judith, and Frédéric Worms. The Livable and the Unlivable. Fordham UP, 2023. EBSCOhost, research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=708f2508-d88d-3b2b-ac59-cc928043382a.
- First author’s name is reversed; the second author’s name is not. Use the abbreviation UP for University Press.
- For e-books, note the database in italics and provide the link.
Three or More Authors
Hollway, Wendy, et al. Climate Psychology: A Matter of Life and Death. Phoenix Publishing House, 2022. EBSCOhost, research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=20af5389-f916-3159-a97c-8c999fa398b1.
- Only list the first author’s name; for all other authors note as "et al." For e-books, note the database in italicsand give the link as it is provided.
Editor as Author
Bennett, Donna and Russell Brown, editors. An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English. 4th ed., Oxford UP, 2019.
- add editor or editors after the name
Edition of a Book
Mays, Kelly J., editor. The Norton Introduction to Literature. Shorter 14th ed., W.W. Norton & Company, 2022.
- The edition information is placed before the publisher and is abbreviated.
Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers
Lekeyten, Elder, Kwantlen First Nation. Community Justice. Personal communication, 4 April 2019. Shared on the traditional unceded territory of the Kwantlen, Musqueam, Katzie, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen, Qayqayt and Kwikwetlem Peoples.
- Core elements: Last name, First names, Elder, Nation/Community. Topic/subject of communication if applicable. Personal communication, Date Month Year. Territorial Acknowledgement of where the information was shared/collected.
Corporate Author or Organization
MLA Handbook. The Modern Language Association of America, 2021. EBSCOhost, research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=2674803f-987c-3dca-91c8-bc3e6584f930.
- *Note the corporate author or organization’s name in full.
- When the corporate author and the publisher are the same, note the title first and list the corporate author as the publisher.
Chapter or Article from an Edited Book
Stapleton, Patricia A. “Suicide as Apocalypse in The Handmaid’s Tale.” Margaret Atwood’s Apocalypses, edited by Karma Waltonen, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, pp. 27-39. EBSCOhost, research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=d3af9527-21bc-3348-90c8-0c22a7f80885.
- Note the author of the chapter and place the title of the chapter in quotation marks. The title of the book is in italics and followed by the editor's name. Add the page numbers for the chapter after the date. The database is in italics and followed by the link.
Online Book (public domain)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Project Gutenberg, 18 Oct. 2024, www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64317.
- Cite a Project Gutenberg e-book noting Project Gutenberg as the publisher, the publication/updated date, & URL.
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