LibGuides: How to cite and reference your sources (Monash University) : Books

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Books

One author

Rule for Notes	Note Number. Author's First and Last Names, Title of Book: Subtitle of Book (Place of Publication: Publisher's Name, Date of Publication), page number(s). Note: The first footnote of a particular source includes all publication information, however subsequent footnotes are shortened
Example of Note entry	1. Donald M. McKale, Nazis After Hitler: How Perpetrators of the Holocaust Cheated Justice and Truth (Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012), 32.
Subsequent Note entry	5. McKale, Nazis After Hitler, 44.
Rule for Bibliography	Author's Last name, First name. Title of Book: Subtitle of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher's Name, Date of Publication.
Example of Bibliography entry	McKale, Donald M. Nazis After Hitler : How Perpetrators of the Holocaust Cheated Justice and Truth. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012.

Two authors

Rule for Notes	Note Number. Author #1's First and Last Names and Author #2's First and Last Names, Title of Book: Subtitle of Book (Place of Publication: Publisher's Name, Date of Publication), page number(s).
Example of Note entry	1. Astri Suhrke and Howard Adelman, The Path of a Genocide: The Rwanda Crisis From Uganda to Zaire (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1999), 43-45.
Subsequent Note entry	5. Suhrke and Adelman, The Path of a Genocide, 48.
Rule for Bibliography	Author #1's Last Name, Author #1's First Name, and Author #2's First and Last Names. Title of the Book: Sub-Title of the Book. Place of Publication: Publisher's Name, Date of publication. (For a book with two or 3 authors, only the first-listed name is inverted in the reference list and bibliography)
Example of Bibliography entry	Suhrke, Astri and Howard Adelman. The Path of a Genocide : The Rwanda Crisis From Uganda to Zaire. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1999.

Three authors

Rule for Notes	Note Number. Author #1's First and Last Names, Author #2's First and Last Names, and Author #3's First and Last Names, Title of Book : Subtitle of Book (Place of Publication: Publisher's Name, Date of Publication), page number(s).
Example of Note entry	1. Israel W. Charny, William S. Parsons and Samuel Totten, Genocide in the Twentieth Century : Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts (New York: Garland Pub, 1995), 65.
Subsequent Note entry	3. Charny, Parsons and Totten, Genocide in the Twentieth, 68.
Rule for Bibliography	Author #1's Last Name, Author #1's First Name, Author #2's First and Last Names, and Author #3's First and Last Names, Title of the Book : Subtitle of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher's Name, Date of Publication. (For a book with two or 3 authors, only the first-listed name is inverted in the reference list and bibliography)
Example of Bibliography entry	Charny, Israel W., William S. Parsons and Samuel Totten. Genocide in the Twentieth Century : Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts. New York: Garland Pub, 1995.

Four authors or more

Rule for Notes	Note Number. Author #1's First and Last Names et al., Title of Book : Subtitle of Book (Place of Publication: Publisher's Name, Date of Publication), page number(s).
Example of Note entry	1. Edward O. Laumann et al., The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), 4.
Subsequent Note entry	4. Laumann et al., The Social Organization of Sexuality, 5.
Rule for Bibliography	Author #1's Last Name, Author #1's First Name, Author #2's First and Last Names, Author #3's First and Last Names and Author #4's First and Last Names, Title of the Book : Subtitle of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher's Name, Date of Publication.
Example of Bibliography entry	Laumann, Edward O., John H. Gagnon, Robert T. Michael and Stuart Michaels. The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Group/Organisation as author

Rule for Notes	Note Number. Name of Group/Organisation, Title of Book: Subtitle of Book (Place of Publication: Publisher's Name, Date of Publication), page number(s).
Example of Note entry	1. United States Memorial Holocaust Museum, Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto (Boston, Mass.: Little Brown and Company, 1998), 4.
Subsequent Note entry	5. United States Memorial Holocaust Museum, Hidden History, 44.
Rule for Bibliography	Name of Group/Organisation. Title of Book: Subtitle of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher's Name, Date of Publication.
Example of Bibliography entry	United States Memorial Holocaust Museum. Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto. Boston, Mass.: Little Brown and Company, 1998.

Edited book

Rule for Notes	Note Number. Editor's First and Last Names, ed., Title of Book: Subtitle of Book (Place of Publication: Publisher's Name, Date of Publication), page number(s).
Example of Note entry	1. Margit Misangyi Watts, ed., Technology: Taking the Distance out of Learning (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003), 73.
Subsequent Note entry	2. Watts, Technology: Taking the Distance, 112.
Rule for Bibliography	Editor's Last name, First name, ed. Title of Book: Subtitle of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher's Name, Date of Publication.
Example of Bibliography entry	Watts, Margit Misangyi, ed. Technology: Taking the Distance out of Learning. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003.

Chapter in an edited book

Rule for Notes	Note Number. Chapter Author's First and Last Names, "Chapter Title," in Title of Book: Subtitle of Book, ed. First and Last Names (Place of Publication: Publisher's Name, Date of Publication), page number(s).
Example of Note entry	1. Colin Lucas, “Nobles, Bourgeois and the Origins of the French Revolution,” in The French Revolution; Recent Debates and New Controversies, ed. Gary Kates (London: Routledge, 1998), 56.
Subsequent Note entry	4. Lucas, “Nobles, Bourgeois and the Origins,” 60.
Rule for Bibliography	Chapter Author's Last name, First name. "Chapter Title." In Title of Book: Subtitle of Book, edited by First and Last Names, page number(s). Place of Publication: Publisher's Name, Date of Publication.
Example of Bibliography entry	Lucas, Colin. “Nobles, Bourgeois and the Origins of the French Revolution.” In The French Revolution; Recent Debates and New Controversies, edited by Gary Kates, 44-67. London: Routledge, 1998.

Entry in a reference book

Rule for Notes	Note Number. Author's First and Last Names, "Entry title" in Title of Book: Subtitle of Book, ed. First and Last Names of each editor (Place of Publication: Publisher's Name, Date of Publication), page number(s).
Example of Note entry	1. John Hirst, "Macquarie, Lachlan," in The Oxford Companion to Australian History, ed. Graeme Davison, John Hirst and Stuart Macintyre (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 172.
Subsequent Note entry	3. Hirst, "Macquarie, Lachlan," 172.
Rule for Bibliography	Author's Last name, First name. "Entry title." In Title of Book: Subtitle of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher's Name, Date of Publication.
Example of Bibliography entry	Hirst, John. "Macquarie, Lachlan." In The Oxford Companion to Australian History, edited by Graeme Davison, John Hirst and Stuart Macintyre, 172. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Book with an author and translator

Rule for Notes	The first footnote of a particular source includes all publication information. However subsequent footnotes are shortened. Note Number. Author's First and Last Names, Title of Book: Subtitle of Book, trans. First and Last Names of translator (Place of Publication: Publisher's Name, Date of Publication), page number(s).
Example of Note entry	1. Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, trans. Edith Grossman (London: Cape, 1988), 242–55.
Subsequent Note entry	18. García Márquez, Cholera, 33.
Rule for Bibliography	Author's Last name, First name. Title of Book: Subtitle of Book. Translated by First and Last Names of translator. Place of Publication: Publisher's Name, Date of Publication.
Example of Bibliography entry	García Márquez, Gabriel. Love in the Time of Cholera. Translated by Edith Grossman. London: Cape, 1988.

Electronic Book (E-book)

E-books are cited exactly as their print counterparts except with the addition of a media marker at the end, e.g. Kindle edition, PDF e-book, Microsoft Reader e-book, Palm e-book etc.

Rule for Notes	Note Number. Author's First and Last Names, Title of Book: Subtitle of Book (Place of Publication: Publisher's Name, Date of Publication), page number(s). Media marker.
Example of Note entry	1. Andres R. Edwards, Thriving Beyond Sustainability: Pathways to a Resilient Society (Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2010) 34. Kindle eBook.
Subsequent Note entry	5. Edwards, Thriving Beyond Sustainability, 56.
Rule for Bibliography	Author's Last name, First name. Title of Book: Subtitle of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher's Name, Date of Publication. Media marker.
Example of Bibliography entry	Edwards, Andres R.Thriving Beyond Sustainability: Pathways to a Resilient Society. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2010. Kindle eBook

Book consulted online

Books consulted online are cited exactly as their print counterparts except with the addition of a URL or DOI.

Rule for Notes	Note Number. Author's First and Last Names, Title of Book: Subtitle of Book (Place of Publication: Publisher's Name, Date of Publication), page number(s). DOI or URL. Note: The first footnote of a particular source includes all publication information, however subsequent footnotes are shortened
Example of Note entry	1. Alexander Meiklejohn, Free speech and its relation to self-government (New York, Harper & Brothers, 1948), 42. http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/UW/UW-idx?type=turn&entity=UW.MeikFreeSp.p0003&id=UW.MeikFreeSp&isize=M
Subsequent Note entry	5. Meiklejohn, Free speech, 44.
Rule for Bibliography	Author's Last name, First name. Title of Book: Subtitle of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher's Name, Date of Publication. DOI or URL.
Example of Bibliography entry	Meiklejohn, Alexander. Free speech and its relation to self-government. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948. http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/UW/UW-idx?type=turn&entity=UW.