Guides

Book with one author

How to cite a book by a single author in notes and bibliographies.

Books

This section gives a number of rules and examples that you will encounter when referencing books in your assessment tasks, theses and articles for publication.

Books with One Author (CMOS 13.77)

Rule for Notes
#. Author's First and Last Names, Book Title: Book Subtitle (Publisher's Name, Publication Date), Page Number/s.

Example Notes

  1. Peggy Brock, Outback Ghettos: Aborigines, Institutionalisation and Survival (Cambridge University Press, 1993), 49.
  2. Chung Hyun Kyung, Struggle to Be the Sun Again: Introducing Asian Women's Theology (Orbis Books, 1990), 72.

Example Shortened Notes

  1. Brock, Outback Ghettos, 50.
  2. Chung, Struggle to Be the Sun, 144.

Rule for Bibliography
Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. Book Title: Book Subtitle. Publisher's Name, Publication Date.

Example Bibliography Entries

Brock, Peggy. Outback Ghettos: Aborigines, Institutionalisation and Survival. Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Chung, Hyun Kyung. Struggle to Be the Sun Again: Introducing Asian Women's Theology. Orbis Books, 1990.

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