This section is about how to reference books. You must include an in-text citation and an entry in your list of references for all sources you use in your work.
You must include an in-text citation. See the in-text citation section for more information about how to do this.
Note: The publisher of this book is the same as the author, so American Psychological Association is not listed a second time.
You must include an in-text citation. See the in-text citation section for more information about how to do this.
Note: If you have accessed an e-book through Locate or BibliU, you don't need to give the web address. If it has a DOI, you should still include this. For more information, see the DOIs and Web Addresses section.
Example 2 (Subsequent edition of an e-book accessed through Locate, without a DOI)
Example 3 (First edition of an e-book without a DOI)
Note: This e-book was accessed through Google on the publisher's own website, so a web address is included. If the e-book had been accessed through Locate or BibliU, it would not have been necessary to include a web address.
Sometimes each chapter of a book will be written by a different author. The job of an editor is to bring together all of these chapters into one book. Normally the editor's name will be on the front cover.
Note that the edition goes in the same brackets as the page numbers.
For more information about links in ebook references, see the DOIs and Web Addresses section.
You must include an in-text citation. See the in-text citation section for more information about how to do this.
Some dictionaries and encyclopaedias have individual authors for each entry. Others have a group author for the whole dictionary or encyclopaedia. These are referenced using two different styles.
Ancient and classic works are referenced using the normal format for the type of source you read. So if you read a work by Aristotle online, you would reference it as a website. If you read it in a book, you would reference it as a book. There are only two differences:
Note that 'Eds.' has been used rather than 'Ed.' because there are multiple editors.
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