A Guide to Books

At times you may be expected to find a particular resource from a given citation. You can do this by searching for the Author or Title of the book.

*Remember to check the Year of Publication so that you retrieve the correct edition of your book.

 In order to find a book from a given citation you need to be able to understand it so that you can pull out the relevant details for your search.

Sample Citation: 

• Auerbach, J. A. (1999). The great exhibition of 1851: A nation on display. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Distinguishing Features

• Only one Title will appear in a book citation.
• A book citation includes a Place of Publication and a Publisher's Name.

Books chapters are cited when they belong to an edited collection. An edited collection is a compilation of chapters or essays contributed by several different authors.

This citation will feature all of the elements from a book citation with a few additional pieces of information.

Sample Citation

• Sperling, Joy (2013). "Wot is to be" : The visual construction of empire at the crystal palace exhibition, London 1851. In M. Tromp, M. K. Bachman               & H. Kaufman (Eds.), Fear, loathing and victorian xenophobia (pp. 181-207). Columbus: Ohio State University Press.

Distinguishing Features

• The citation includes two Titles.
• The citation includes a Place of Publication and a Publisher's Name which shows that it is part of a book.
• Editor(s) and a range of Page Numbers are provided.