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Additional examples and explanations for book citations are found on pages 171-186 in A Manual for Writers (2017).

Basic Book Citation

Basic Footnote Entry

     Author's first and last name, Title of the Book (Location: Publisher,
Year), Page number.

 

Basic Works Cited Entry

Author's last name, Author's first name. Title of the Book. Location:
     Publisher, Year

Book with one author

Footnote:

      Michael Davis, Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street (New York: Viking, 2008), 43.



Works Cited:

Davis, Michael. Street Gang: The Complete History of
    
Sesame Street. New York: Viking, 2008. 

 

Book with more than one author

  

Footnote:

     Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler, The Crimes of Paris: A  True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection (New York: Little,  2009), 104.

 

Works Cited:

Hoobler, Dorothy, and Thomas Hoobler.
     The Crimes of Paris: True Story of
     Murder, Theft, and Detection.
 New York:
    
 Little, 2009. 

   

 

Edited book

 

Footnote:

      Shirley R. Steiberg and Joe L. Kincheloe,
eds.,  
Christotainment: Selling Jesus through 
Popular
Culture (Boulder: Westview, 2009), 98.


Works Cited:

Steinberg, Shirley R., and Joe L. Kincheloe,  
     eds. 
 Christotainment: Selling Jesus           
     through Popular
 Culture. Boulder:
     Westview, 2009.

   

Electronic Book

Footnote:

      Vincent Sherry,  The Great War and the Language of Modernism
(New York: 
Oxford University Press, 2003), http://rave.ohiolink.edu

/ebook/ebc/9780195178180. 

 

Works Cited:

Sherry, Vincent. The Great War and the Language of Modernism.    

     New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. http://rave  

     .ohiolink.edu/ebook/ebc/ 9780195178180.

 

Two additional items are necessary for citing an electronic book: URL of the database or website (here, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ebooks/ebc/9780195178180). Be sure the URL you use is a permanent, or persistent, link.