How to Cite Booklets

Published sources come in a wide variety of styles from magazine articles to booklets. These sources can be cited in a few different formats depending on your discipline. Chicago format is used for many of the humanities while APA format is used for social and psychological sciences. A booklet will appear in research in both of these wide-ranging fields. Booklets will often be cited like a book with some slight modifications.

Things You'll Need

  • Scratch paper
  • Word processor
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Instructions

    • 1

      Note down the name of the person or organization responsible for the booklet, the title of the booklet, the year it was printed and where it was printed. Put these items on a scratch sheet of paper for reference as you write out the citation.

    • 2

      Format the notes taken from Step 1 into a bibliographic entry for APA style. Start with the name of the author or organization. If the title is an organization write out the name as it appears in the booklet. If there is a single author put the last name first, followed by a comma and the first name followed by a period. Write out the year of publication in parenthesis. Write out the entire title of the booklet in italics followed by a period. Indicate that the source is a booklet by putting the word "booklet" in brackets followed by a period. Finally, write out the place of publication, if available.

      For example:

      Research and Training Center on Independent Living. (1993). Guidelines for reporting and writing about people with disabilities (4th ed.) [Brochure]. Lawrence, KS: Author. 

    • 3

      Format the bibliographic entry Chicago style. Write out the name of the organization or name of the person who published the booklet followed by a period. Write out the entire title of the pamphlet in italics followed by a period. List out the place of publication by city, publishing company (if available) and year of publication.

      For example:

      Hemphill, C. Dallett. Bowing to Necessities: A History of Manners in America,

      1620-1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

      Follow the Chicago guidelines for a book as closely as possible with the information provided by the booklet. Chicago format requires that the second line of bibliographic entry be indented, which we cannot show you in this format.

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