Reference list - entries for books
Provide the author’s surname followed by a comma then the first initial(s) of the author’s given name(s) followed by a full stop and comma. The year of publication follows the author’s name - no need to use brackets (parantheses) for the date. Write book titles exactly as they are on the cover including spelling in the UK or US format (e.g. Organizational Behavior or Organisational Behaviour). Italicize the title of the book. A full stop follows the title of the book and the end of the citation. Provide the place of publication followed by a colon. Figure 1 shows how:
Figure 1. The punctuation and font style of a references list entry (Academic
English UK 2017).
The following examples show how to write the reference list entry for books:
1 author
Oliver, P., 2004. Writing Your Thesis. London: Sage.
Variations exist on the number of initials given for an entry. We recommend you use first and middle name if the author has identified these in the work. Do not use full first name however,
2 authors
Gill, J., and Johnson, P., 2002. Research Methods for Managers. London: Sage.
Multiple authors
Palan, R., Murphy, R., and Chavagneux, C., 2010. Tax Havens: How Globalization Really Works. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
When listing books written by multiple authors provide the surnames and initials of all authors, even if they are many.
Edited books
For edited books provide the editor’s name with the abbreviation ed. (meaning editor) or eds. (meaning editors) following it.
McDonough, T., Reich, M., and Kotz, D., eds. 2010. Contemporary Capitalism and Its Crises: Social Structure of Accumulation Theory for the 21st Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Book chapters in edited collections
For specific book chapters featured in edited collections you should provide full information of both the article and the source of the article (namely, the book), including the page numbers of the article concerned:
Kotz, D., and McDonough, T., 2010. Global neoliberalism and the contemporary social structure of accumulation. In McDonough, Terrence, Reich and Kotz, eds. 2010. Contemporary Capitalism and Its Crises: Social Structure of Accumulation Theory for the 21st Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 93-120.