How to Cite a Book

How to Cite a Book How to Cite a Book Citing a book correctly can be the most annoying part of writing an essay, research paper or term paper. However, citing a book is important and not as difficult as it seems to be.

Get all the information you will need. Any book’s information can be found on the first or the last pages of the book. Collect the author’s name, publication name, location of publishing, and the date of publishing.

Now create a bibliography of works cited page. You can use the next page to title the page as Works cited

Now write the author details. Write, author’s last name first, then the date.

Now add the book’s title and underline it

Write the name of the city where the book was published. Put the state name. Add a colon and write the publisher’s name and after that the date of publication and the year of publication.

When you are citing a book while writing a paper, remember to cite a book in a single sentence. Just add the author’s name before the quote. Use quotation marks before the quote. Add the page number of the quote too. Indent the quotaion for about one inch,

If you do not want to write the author’s name in a single sentence use the name at the end of the quote. Use quotation marks around the quote. Use author’s name and quote page number of the quote in the parenthesis. Punctuate the sentence after the page number has been written.