A reference to a book must include enough information to lead interested readers to the source.
The title of the book is italicised.
List the name of the author(s) or editor(s) or, if none are listed, name of institution standing in their place. An author’s name and the title of a book should generally be cited according to how it appears on the title page.
In a reference list, the surname of the first author is inverted (last name first).
If a translator as well as an editor is listed, the names should appear in the same order as on the title page of the original (14.6).
Place of publication is no longer required in book citations (14.30)
| Type | Format |
|---|---|
| Elements of citation | Author -- Title: subtitle italicised -- publisher and date -- Page number(s) (13.106) |
| In-text citations | (Blanshard 2006, 151) |
| Reference list | Blanshard, Alastair. 2006. Hercules: A Heroic Life. Granta. |
| EndNote reference type | Book |
| Type | Format |
|---|---|
| Elements of citation |
In a reference list, only the first author’s name is inverted, and a comma must appear both before and after the first author’s given name or initials (13.107) |
| In-text citations |
(Butcher and Elson 2017, 21) |
| Reference List |
Butcher, John G. and R. E. Elson. 2017. Sovereignty and the sea: how Indonesia became an archipelagic state. National University of Singapore. |
| EndNote reference type |
Book Ensure you place authors on separate lines |
| Type | Format |
|---|---|
| Elements of citation |
List up to six authors in the reference list (13.107). Invert the first author’s name, and a comma must appear both before and after the first author’s given name or initials |
| In-text citations |
(Kargon, Fiss and Low 2015, 57) |
| Reference List |
Kargon, Robert H., Karen Fiss, and Morris Low. 2015. World's Fairs on the Eve of War. University of Pittsburgh Press. |
| EndNote reference type |
Book Ensure you place authors on separate lines |
| Type | Format |
|---|---|
| Elements of citation |
For a book with four or more authors, include all the authors in the reference list entry. In the text, cite only the last name of the first-listed author, followed by et al. (13.107). |
| In-text citations |
(McWilliam et al. 2015, 3) |
| Reference list |
McWilliam, Janette, James Donaldson, Amelia Brown, Sandra Christou, and Judith Powell. 2015. Cyprus: An Island and a People. RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland. |
| EndNote reference type |
Book Ensure you place authors on separate lines |
| Type | Format |
|---|---|
| Elements of citation |
In an edited book, a work is listed by the name(s) of the editor(s). In full note citations and in bibliographies, the abbreviation ed. or eds. follows the name, preceded by a comma (13.116) |
| In-text citations |
(Ginn, Davies and Rough 2010, 5) |
| Reference list |
Ginn, Geoff, Hilary Davies and Brian Rough, eds. 2010. 'A most promising corps': Citizen soldiers in colonial Queensland. Colonial Forces Study Group. |
| EndNote reference type | Edited book |
| Type | Format |
|---|---|
| Elements of citation |
Author -- Date -- Title italicised -- Edited by or Translated by -- Place of Publication -- Publisher (13.116) |
| In-text citations |
(Xinwu 2021, 15) |
| Bibliography | Liu Xinwu. The Wedding Party. 2021. Translated by Jeremy Tiang. Amazon Crossing. |
| Endnote reference type |
Book Enter translator’s name in the Translator field. The translator's name may need to be entered with a comma to format correctly e.g. Jeremy Tiang, |
| Type | Format |
|---|---|
| Elements of citation |
If the author, editor, translator, or the like for the work is unknown, the reference list entry should normally begin with the title. An initial article is ignored in alphabetizing. Text citations may refer to a short form of the title but must include the first word (other than an initial article) (13.125) |
| In-text citations |
(True and Sincere Declaration 1610) |
| Reference list |
A True and Sincere Declaration of the Purpose and Ends of the Plantation Begun in Virginia, of the Degrees Which It Hath Received, and Means by Which It Hath Been Advanced. 1610. London. |
| EndNote reference type | Book |