Is it an Article, a Book, or a Chapter in a Book? Identifying Citations: Books
A BOOK CITATION: ELEMENTS IDENTIFIED
This color-coded guide identifies the standard elements that make up a book citation. Notice how the arrangement of the very same elements changes depending on where you are viewing it as demonstrated in the following screenshots and photos of the actual book.
Montgomery, S. (1991). Walking with the great apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Beruté Galdikas. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Montgomery, S. (1991). Walking with the great apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Beruté Galdikas. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co.
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COLOR KEY
AUTHOR(S) Montgomery, S.
TITLE OF BOOK Walking with the great apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Beruté Galdikas.
PLACE OF PUBLICATION Boston, MA:
PUBLISHER Houghton Mifflin Co.
DATE (1991)
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HINTS - BOOK CITATIONS
- Always have a place of publication and a publisher.
- Normally have a year of publication.
A BOOK CITATION AS IT APPEARS IN A DATABASE LIST OF RESULTS
The book citation in the example above as it appears in a database list of results:
A BOOK CITATION AS IT APPEARS ON A DATABASE DETAIL SCREEN
Clicking on the title takes you to the database detail screen where the book citation appears again:
A BOOK CITATION FROM THE BOOK ITSELF
THE FRONT OF THE TITLE PAGE
Everything needed to make a complete citation for this book is on the title page except the year of publication.
THE BACK OF THE TITLE PAGE
The year of publication is on the back of the title page (highlighted here in red).
