Write an APA style citation with the following reference format, for a textbook with one or more authors that is not divided into separate chapters written by different authors:
Author(s) Last Name, First Name. (Year of Publication). Title of the Book (in italics). Publication Location: Publisher.
Apply formatting to create a hanging indent -- if your citation is longer than one line -- adding five spaces for the second and any subsequent lines. If the citation does not include a known author, follow the same format as in Step 1, but leave out the author's name and change the placement of the publication date:
Title of the Book. (Year of Publication) Publication Location: Publisher.
Write a reference citation from a textbook with chapters written by separate authors as follows:
Chapter author(s), (date of publication), Chapter title, Book editor(s), Book Title, Chapter page numbers, Publication Location: Publisher.
Write the in-text citations following the author-date format within parentheses -- (Bigs, 2012). If it is a direct quotation, follow the quote with a page number -- (Bigs, 2012, p. 12). As the textbook is listed in the References, the author(s) of the chapter are those that are quoted within the document.
If there are more than three authors, cite all three authors the first time -- (Bigs, Smalls, Mediums, 2012) -- and then for each subsequent citation -- (Bigs, et al., 2012). For more than four authors for each textbook chapter, cite it with "et al." from the very first citation.
Write an AMA style textbook citation in a similar manner as for APA style. The only notable difference is the placement of the publication date and the lack of a hanging indent:
Author(s) Last Name, First Name. Title of the Book (in italics). Publication Location: Publisher; (Year of Publication).
In-text quotations or paraphrasing are in the author-date style (Bigs, 2010) with direct quotations followed by the same rules that apply to APA style.
Write an AMA style citation with more than one line by following the same rule as for APA style, adding a hanging indent of five spaces for the second and any subsequent lines. If there's no known author, follow the same format, only leaving out the author's name and changing the placement of the publication date:
Title of the Book. (Year of Publication) Publication Location: Publisher.
Write the AMA style reference citation for a selection within a textbook by citing the separate chapter authors, in the same style as for APA:
Chapter author(s), (date of publication), Chapter title, Book editor(s), Book Title, Chapter page numbers, Publication Location: Publisher.
Write an MLA style citation for your textbook selection depending on your source. If you're dealing with a hard copy of the textbook, and the author is known, write the author's first and last name, followed by the title of the book, place the book was published, the publisher, the year of publication and the medium of the book. For example:
Author Last Name, Author First Name. Title (in italics). Location of Publisher: Publisher Name, Date of Publication. Medium.
Write a database or website source for the textbook by including the author's last and first name, followed by the title in italics, the location of the website, the publisher of the website, the medium and the date the textbook was published. In all cases, a hanging indent of five spaces is used if the citation is longer than one line. All of these citations are referenced on a "Works Cited" page.
Write a textbook citation for selected chapters or stories, written by authors other than the book editors, by citing as such:
Author(s) of chapters/stories "Chapter Name" Book Title. Editor(s), Publication location: Publisher, Year. Pages. Medium.
Write the in-text textbook citations in MLA format by using parenthetical entries, with the chapter author's name as the primary cite, (Hemingway) and without the year. If you have to add a page number after a direct quote, it appears as (Hemingway page number). Citations are always within the punctuation -- not on the outside of periods, commas, semi-colons or colons.
Write this style of textbook citations in either of its two distinct formats: the Notes-Bibliography style for works in the humanities and the Author-Date style for sciences and social sciences. For the Notes-Bibliography style, the reference page is called "Bibliography" and the textual citations are footnoted. In the Author-Date style, the reference page is called the "References."
Write the citation for a textbook by referring to the last name and first name of the author (or authors), the year of publication for the textbook, the title of the book in italics, followed by the publisher's location and the publisher. Include the same hanging indent of five spaces for citations longer than a line. Cite the textbook as follows:
Last Name, First Name. Year of publication. Title of Textbook (in italics). Publisher location: Publisher.
For a chapter, story or essay selected from within a textbook, the citation should read:
Last Name, First Name, "Chapter Title" in Title of Textbook (in Italics) Edited by Name. Location: Publisher, Year.
Write the Notes-Bibliography Chicago style footnotes throughout the text. For the first instance the citation for a textbook is as follows:
First Name, Last Name "Chapter Title" in Title of Textbook (in Italics) Edited by Name. Location: Publisher, Year
Each subsequent citation is shortened to Last Name and, if needed, the page number.
Write the Author-Date Chicago in-text format as: (Lane 1922, 4) for direct quotations, and (Lane 1922) for indirect or paraphrasing citations.