Author, A. A.
- Authors last name, first and middle name initials
- If your source uses an Organizations' Name, you use the organizations name i.e Red Cross; Midwestern Career College
- If there is no author, use the title of your source:
- All Proper nouns must be capitalized
- Punctuation Counts. Put a period after your author
- Use et al. if there are more than 3 authors
(Year of publication).
- Use Parenthesis: (Year)
- Place a period after the closing parenthesis (Year).
- Put the copyright year of the book in the parenthesis
- Copyright year of books are found within the first few pages in the book.
- Punctuation Matters: put a period after you enter the year
Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitles.
- This refers to the name of your source (book) used in your paper
- The first letter of the Title and Subtitle must be capitalized.
- Title of article: Subtitle of article
- All Proper nouns must be capitalized
- Put a period after your title
Location:
- The ‘Location’ refers to the city and/or state of the book publisher (i.e. Cengage Learning, Elsevier, etc.)
- The location can be within the first few pages in the book just like the copyright date.
- Punctuation Matters: put a semi-colon,:, after the location.
Publisher.
- The publisher is the publishing company that prints and distributes books.
- Punctuation matters: put a period after the publisher.
