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One Author Author’s Last name, First name.  Title of Book.  Place of Publication: Publication company, Copyright year. Fitzgerald, F. Scott.  The Great Gatsby.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1925. Two Authors Greenberg, Jan and Sandra Jordan.  Chuck Close Up Close.  New York: DK Pub., 1998. Three Authors Marquart, James W., Sheldon Ekland Olson, and Jonathan R. Sorensen.  The Rope, the Chair, and the Needle: Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923-1990.  Austin: U of Texas P, 1994. Four or More Authors Author’s last name, First name. et al. Title of Book.  Place of Publication: Publication company, Copyright year. Brown, Richard G., et al.  Algebra:  Structure and      Method.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. No Named Author Use the Editor: Feldman, Paula R., ed.  British Women Poets of the Romantic Era.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1997. Translator, Editor or Compiler  (use Trans., Ed., or Comp.) Saint-Exupery, Antoine de. The Little Prince.  Trans.  Katherine Woods.  New York: Harcourt Brace, 1943. Edition Tansey, Richard G. and Fred Kleiner.  Art through the Ages.  10th            Ed. Philadelphia:  Harcourt Brace            College P, 1996. Work in an Anthology Author’s last name, First name. “Title of Piece.”  Title of Anthology.  Translator, Editor or Compiler. Place of Publication: Publication company, Copyright year. pages. Dickinson, Emily.  “I Shall Know Why – When Time Is Over.”  The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry.  Ed. Richard       Ellman and Robert O’Clair.  New York:  W.W. Norton,      1973. 36. Multivolume Work Please note:      Example 1: if two or more volumes are used.  Example 2: one volume consulted. The New Oxford History of Music.  Ed. Martin Cooper.          11 vols.  London: Oxford UP, 1974. The New Oxford History of Music.  Ed. Martin Cooper.         vol. 6.  London: Oxford UP, 1974. Reference Books Unsigned articles start with the title of the article and place the editor's name after the book title. An unsigned article in a Reference Book: "Aristotle."  Ancient Greece and Rome: an Encyclopedia          for Students.  Ed. Carroll Moulton. New York:          Charles Scribner's,  Sons, 1998. A signed article in a Reference Book: Cohen, Judah.  “Cyclones.”  Encyclopedia of Climate          and  Weather.  Ed.  Stephen H. Schneider.  New          York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Citing from an e-book or electronic book Nye, Russel B. A Baker’s Dozen: Thirteen Unusual Americans. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, 1956. Questia. 1 Dec 2005<http://www.questia.com/>.