| Material Type | In-text Citation | Works Cited |
| a Book with one author | (Burke 3) | Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. UC Press, 1966. |
| a Book with two authors | (Bamberger and Oswald 60) | Bamberger, Michelle, and Robert Oswald. The Real Cost of Fracking: How America's Shale-Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food. Beacon Press, 2014. |
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a Book with three or more authors |
(Wilkins et al. 95-96) | Wilkins, Robert L. et al. Clinical Assessment in Respiratory Care. 6th ed., Mosby, 2010. |
| a Book with no author | (Anthology 24-25) | An Anthology of Old English Poetry. Translated by Charles W. Kennedy, Oxford UP, 1960. |
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a Book with author(s) and editors - citing a portion written by the author(s) |
(Fox 137) |
Fox, Aaron A. "Split Subjectivity in Country Music and Honky-Tonk Discourse." All That Glitters: Country Music in America, edited by George H. Lewis, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1993, pp.131-139. |
| a Book with author(s) and editors(s) - citing a portion written by the editor(s) | (Coetzee vi-viii) |
Coetzee, J. M. Introduction. The Confusions of Young Torless, by Robert Musil, translated by Shaun Whiteside, Penguin Classics, 2001, pp. xix-xxxvi. If you are citing a portion of the book written by the editor, begin with the editor. Provide the author's name after the title preceded by [by]. |
| an Anthology with editor(s) | (McPhee 216) |
Mcphee, John. "Silk Parachute." 75 readings plus, edited by Santi V. Buscemiand Charlotte Smith, 10th ed., McGraw-Hill, pp. 215-217. |
| a Book with editor(s) and no author | (Engel et al. 215-217) |
Engel, Jeffrey A., et al., editor. America in the world : a history in documents from the War with Spain to the War on Terror. Princeton UP, 2014. |
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a Book with organization as author |
(National Fire Protection Association 59) |
National Fire Protection Association. Fundamentals of Firefighting Skills. 2nd ed., Jones and Bartlett, 2009. |
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a Book with organization as author and publisher |
(MLA 37) |
MLA Handbook . 8th ed., Modern Language Association of America, 2016. |
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an Ebook (online book from a website) |
(Rawls 117) |
Rawls, James J., and Richard J. Orsi, editors. A Golden State: Mining and Economic Development in Gold Rush California. UC Press, 1999. UC Press E-books Collection, ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft758007r3/. |
| an Ebook (from a database) |
(Sandul and Galbreath 21-22) |
Sandul, Paul J. P., and Kelley Galbreath. California Dreaming : Boosterism, Memory, and Rural Suburbs in the Golden State. West Virginia UP, 2014. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost), ezproxy.skylinecollege.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=867521&site=eds-live. |
| a Part of a book from an online database (chapter, essay, piece) | (Armbruster 20) | Armbruster, Elif S. "Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Cost of Domesticity." Domestic Biographies : Stowe, Howells, James, and Wharton At Home, Peter Lang AG, 2011, pp. 15-47. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost), ezproxy.skylinecollege.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=448270&site=eds-live. |
| an Ebook (Read on an eReader device i.e. Nook, Kindle, etc.) | (Rowley 50-65) |
Rowley, Hazel. Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage. Kindle ed., Farrar, 2010. |