Italicize the title of the textbook when mentioning it in the text. Capitalize all words except articles (a, an, the), coordinating conjunctions (for, and, nor, but, so) and very short prepositions (in, on, at).
Write the author's last name in parentheses for parenthetical citations. For the first citation, cite multiple authors by writing all of their last names alphabetically, separated by commas, with an ampersand before the final name on the list (Fridlund, Gleitner & Reisberg); in subsequent citations, write the first author's last name followed by "et al." (Fridlund et al.). If the text has both an author and an editor (for instance, a textbook made up of several articles or an introduction to the works of a certain author), do not mention the editor in your in-text citation.
Type a comma followed by the textbook's year of publication. If you are citing content from a specific page, type a comma followed by the page number, then close the parentheses. Otherwise, close the parentheses after the year. For example: Darwin's universality thesis states that people from different cultures show emotions with similar facial expressions even if those cultures have had little contact (Fridlund, Gleitman & Reisberg, 1999, p. 476). Teachers can use Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences to teach students who learn in a variety of ways (Armstrong, 2000).
Write the date in parentheses after mentioning the author's name if you are using the author's last name in the body of the paper, then write the page number at the end of the information. Do not rewrite the author's name in the parentheses.
For instance, you would write, "De Bary and Bloom (1999) claim that the earliest record of Chinese writing is the oracle-bone inscriptions of the Shang dynasty (p. 5)," not "De Bary and Bloom (1999) claim that the earliest record of Chinese writing is the oracle-bone inscriptions of the Shang dynasty (De Bary & Bloom, 1999, p. 5),"
Type the author's last name, a comma, and the author's first initial. If there are multiple authors, type all their names in this style, with an ampersand before the name of the final author. Type the publication year in parentheses. Type the title of the textbook in italics, only capitalizing the first letter of the title and any proper nouns. If the book is not the first edition, type the non-italicized edition number in parentheses. Type the location of publication, a colon, and the publisher.
For example: Fridlund, A.J., Gleitman, H. and Reisberg, D. (1999). Psychology (5th ed.). New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Cite a book with an editor by adding the editor's name and (Ed.) after the book's title. If there are multiple editors, type (Eds.) For example: Kierkegaard, S. (1946). A Kierkegaard anthology. R. Bretall (Ed.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Cite an article or chapter in an edited book by typing the title of the article after the author's name and the year of publication. Type "In" followed by the name of the editor or editors, then the italicized title of the book. Type the page numbers of the article in parentheses followed by a period. Conclude with the location of publication and the publisher.
For example: Talbot, M. (1995). A synthetic sisterhood: False friends in a teenage magazine. In Bucholtz, M. & Hall, K (Eds.), Gender Articulated: Language and the socially constructed self (pp. 143-165). New York, NY: Routledge.