• See Book Chapters guidance page to reference book chapters. This page has guidance for referencing whole books.
• The authors' names are given as they appear on the publication you have used, i.e., use full first name where provided or first name initials where initials only are provided.
• See the examples below for guidance on how many author names to list in the bibliography.
• Capitalisation practice should be consistent.
• Titles and subtitles of books are given maximal capitalisation (title case).
• All words other than prepositions, conjunctions, and definite and indefinite articles (a, an, the) are capitalised.
• Book titles are italicised when typed or underlined when handwritten.
• Place of publication is not required for book citations.
• Include the DOI for e-books in your reference, if given. If not, cite the name of the full-text database used to source the document. Otherwise, cite the URL.
• Include a Distributor name after the Publisher name only if it appears on the title page along with the publisher's name.
Standard format for citation
Authored work:
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Author, A. A., and B. B. Author. Title: Subtitle. Edition if not the first. Publisher, Year of original publication. |
e-Book with DOI :
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Author, A., and B. Author. Title of E-book: Subtitle. Edition if not the first. Publisher, Year of original publication. https://doi.org/10.XXXX/XXXXXXXX.XX. |
e-Book no DOI :
From a Database:
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Author, A., and B. Author. Title of E-book: Subtitle. Edition if not the first. Publisher, Year of original publication. Source. |
From the Internet:
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Author, A., and B. Author. Title of e-book: Subtitle. Edition if not the first. Publisher, Year of original publication. URL. |
Edited work:
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Editor, A. A., and B. B. Editor, eds. Title: Subtitle. Special credits (if appropriate). Edition if not the first. Publisher, Year. URL or DOI if consulted online. |
Single author or editor
Author full first name provided
Boyle, Jimmy. The Pain of Confinement: Prison Diaries. Canongate, 1984.
Brown, Blain. Motion Picture and Video Lighting. 2nd ed. Focal Press, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-240-80763-8. 50004-9.
Cox, David J. A Certain Share of Low Cunning: A History of the Bow Street Runners, 1792-1839. Willan Publishing, 2010. Ebook Library.
Greenberg, Joel, ed. Of Prairie, Woods, and Water: Two Centuries of Chicago Nature Writing. University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Author first names' initials only provided
Medley, D. J. The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304. 1910 ed. Project Gutenberg, 2005. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7343.
Two to six authors or editors
Author or editor, full first name provided
Dollimore, Johnathon, and Keith Hall, eds. Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism. 2nd ed. Cornell UP, 1994.
MacIntosh, Angus, M.L. Samuels, Michael Benskin, Margaret Laing, and Keith Williamson. A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English. 4 vols. Aberdeen UP, 1987.
Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue, Stuart G. Shanker and Talbot J. Taylor. Apes, Language and the Human Mind. Oxford UP, 1998.
More than six authors or editors
Fraser, Jennifer, Donna Waters, Elizabeth Mary Forster, et al., eds. Paediatric Nursing in Australia: Principles for Practice. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Later edition
Newcomb, Horace, ed. Television: The Critical View. 6th ed. Oxford UP, 2000.
Book with Author plus Editor or Translator
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Edited by F. N. Robinson. 2nd ed. Oxford UP, 1957.
Multivolume work
Author full first name provided
Summerfield, Geoffrey. Voices: An Anthology of Poetry and Pictures. 3 vols. Penguin, 1968.
Series
Author full first name provided
Lynn, Richard John. Chinese Literature: A Draft Bibliography in Western European Languages. Oriental Monograph Series 24. Australian National UP, 1979.
Anthology or compilation
Author first names' initials only provided
West, T. G., ed. and trans. Symbolism: An Anthology. Methuen, 1980.
Translation
Moliere. Five Plays: Moliere. Translated by John Wood. Penguin, 1953.
Two or more books by the same author (Note: These are listed alphabetically by book title).
Author full first name provided.
Pilger, John. Distant Voices. Vintage, 1992.
Pilger, John. A Secret Country. Cape, 1989.
Organisation
Australian Copyright Council. Copyright for Book Publishers: A Practical Guide. Australian Copyright Council, 1997.
Government publications
Department of Aboriginal Affairs. Programs in Action for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People: Achievements. Australian Government Publishing Service for Department of Aboriginal Affairs, 1989.
Department of Treasury and Finance. An Economic History of Western Australia Since Colonial Settlement: 175th Anniversary of Colonial Settlement 1829-2004. Government of Western Australia, 2004. Research Paper.