Find essays in printed collections or anthologies to reference in your novel. Essays must be published in order to be cited.
Determine the essay's author. Write the author's name in last name, first name format, followed by a period.
Write the title of the essay between quotation marks. Include a period after the title, before the closing quotation marks.
Write the title of the collection or anthology next, italicized. Place a period after the title.
Find the editor(s) name(s) on the cover of the anthology, or in the front of the anthology with the printing information. Write Ed. for editor, followed by the editor(s) name(s), followed by a period.
Find the location the anthology was published in, the publisher's name, and the year of publication in the front of the anthology. Write the place of publication, followed by a semicolon. Then write the publisher's name followed by a comma, then the year of publication followed by a period.
Write the page numbers that the essay is found on next in numericals with a hyphen between them, to indicate the beginning and ending pages. Include a period after the numbers.
Finish with the type of publication. For published anthologies, write print, followed by a period.