Modern Language Association of America, or MLA, style of referencing books is used for works mostly relating to subjects such as the humanities and liberal arts. MLA sequence follows the order of: Author's last name, Author's first name. Title of Book. Publication Place: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.
For example:
Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. Denver: MacMurray, 1999. Print.
American Psychological Association, or APA, style is used to reference a book in a piece of writing on such subjects as sociology, psychology and education. The following sequence is used for APA style book referencing: Author's last name, Author's first name, (Year of Publication) Title of the Book. Location of Publication: Name of Publisher.
For example:
Rogers,C.R. (1961) On Becoming A Person. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Chicago Manual of Style, or CMS, is used when referencing books on a piece of writing about art, history and literature. The following sequence is used with CMS: Author's Full Name, Title of Book, Edition (Place of Publication: Name of Publisher, Date of Publication)
For example:
Julie Roy Jeffrey, Frontier Women: The Trans-Mississippi West 1840-1860 (New York: Hill and Wang, 1979)