Citation Guide: Print Media

Book - single author

Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. Bantam Books, 1951.

In-Text Citation

(Author last name page #)
(Salinger 55)

Book - two authors

Give their names in the same order as on the title page.
Gaiman, Neil, and Terry Pratchett. Good Omens. HarperTouch, 2006.

In-Text Citation

(Authors' last names page #)
(Gaiman and Pratchett 39)

Book – more than three authors

(et. al. = and others)
Hand, Cynthia, et. al. My Lady Jane. HarperCollins, 2016.

In-Text Citation

(Authors’ last names page #)
(Hand et al. 42)

Book – editor instead of author

Tarr, David, editor. Congress A to Z. CQ Press, 2003.

In-Text Citation

(Author last name page #)
(Tarr 401)

Book – two or more editors instead of author

Oates, Joyce Carol, and Robert Atwan, editors. The Best American Essays of the Century. Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

In-Text Citation

(Editors’ last names page #)
(Oates and Atwan 89)

Book – series

Haley, James, editor. Women in the Military: At Issue. Greenhaven Press, 2004.

In-Text Citation

(Editor last name page #)
(Haley 63)

Multi-volume encyclopedia
(signed article)

Sheehan, James J. “Germany.” The World Book Encyclopedia, vol. 8, World Book, Inc., 2015.

In-Text Citation

(Author last name page #)
(Sheehan 144)

Multi-volume encyclopedia
(unsigned article)

“Capital Punishment.” The Encyclopedia of American Crime, edited by Carl Sifakis, 2nd ed., vol. 1, Facts on File, 2001, pp. 152-56.

In-Text Citation

(Editor last name page #)
(Sifakis 152)

Multi-volume encyclopedia
(introduction, a preface, a forward, or afterword)

Alles, Gregory D. Introduction. The Encyclopedia of World Religions, edited by Robert S. Ellwood, Book Builders, Inc., 1998, pp. vii-viii.

In-Text Citation

(Author last name page #)
(Alles vii)

Book with a translator, illustrator, or significant contributor

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De. The Little Prince. Translated by Katherine Woods, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1973.

In-Text Citation

(Author last name page #)
(Saint-Exupery 56)

Chapter reprinted from another source

Bernard, Catherine. “Understanding to Kill a Mockingbird.” Harper E. Lee, Lucent Books, 2003, pp. 33. Originally published in To Kill a Mockingbird, Warner Books, 1982, p. 205.

In-Text Citation

(Author last name page #)
(Bernard 33)

Articles/Chapters from an edited book

Van Ghent, Dorothy. “Willa Cather.” American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies, edited by Leonard Unger, Scribner’s Sons, 1974, pp. 312-34.

In-Text Citation

(Author last name page #)
(Van Ghent 312)

Scholarly journals, magazines, and newspaper articles

Austin, Michael. “Building & Developing a Title Team.” Coach & Athletic Director, vol. 80, no. 9, 2011, pp. 26-33.

In-Text Citation

(Author last name page #)
(Austin 31)

Magazine

Monticello, Mike. “Safety Systems that Could Save Your Life.” Consumer Reports, vol. 84, no. 8, Aug. 2019, pp. 56-65.

In-Text Citation

(Author last name page #)
(Monticello 56)

Newspaper

Wittich, Jake, and David Struett. “Too Cool at School.” Chicago Sun-Times, 13 Nov. 2019, sec. 1, p. 4.

In-Text Citation

(Authors’ last names page #)
(Wittich and Struett 4)

Pamphlet or brochure

Department of Healthcare and Family Services. Clean Slate Program: A Child Support Debt Reduction Program. Authority of the State of Illinois, 2019.

In-Text Citation

(Author only)
(DHFS)

Government publications: Federal

United States, Congress, Senate, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearing on the Geopolitics of Oil. Government Printing Office, 2007. 110th Congress, 1st session, Senate Report 111-8.

In-Text Citation

(Title or Shortened Title)
(Hearing on the Geopolitics)

Photograph or picture in a book

Tip: For photographic reproductions of artwork (e.g. images of artwork in a book), treat the book as a container (larger body of work that holds the source). Remember that for a second container, the title is listed first, before the contributors.
Lange, Dorothea. Migrant Mother. 1936, Farm Security Administration Collection. The Illustrated History of Women: Depression and War: 1930-1959. Franck, Irene and David Brownstone. Vol. 9, Grolier Educational, 1998, p. 110.

In-Text Citation

(Author last name page #)
(Lange 110)