Citations and Bibliographies

When creating a citation for a book, there are components that must be included. For most books, these are easy to find. The information should be included on the title page of the book, which is usually one of the first few pages of the book. The title page includes printing and publication information and should provide the information needed to create the citation.

This example shows the title page of the book Madeline and points out the relevant information. Looking at this title page, we could create our citation for this source.

The citation for this source, in MLA format, would be:

So why is this important? Well, if you use a citation generator, such as the example below from Microsoft Word, you need to know how to transfer the parts of the source you are using to the areas you must fill out to create the citation.