How do you cite textbooks?

Answer 1

All citing is, is using actual text from the book.

for example...

----I thought it was very interesting that the author used a metaphor in this context, "the ocean was screaming and life was bleak..." is really showed the contrast of the beach and the ocean---

the cited part would be the sentence with quotations from the book.

also to cite you can just make references to the book such as

--- when jimmy told Amanda that he loved to sit by the ocean and just listen to everything it really explained how much he appreciated things like.. ---

that is also a form of citing

Answer 2

When citing a textbook or any other book references, put your quote in quotation marks, followed by a comma. Then you put the name of your book and the page number in brackets immediately following your quote.

Answer 3

you put ther author of the book and then the page number on which you found the information that your writing about in parentheses in the sentence, for example:

Stars are made up of gas, ice, and dust (Smith, 9).

smith is the authors name, and 9 is the page number it was on

Answer 4

It depends on the type of book that it is and how many authors and all that jazz. A website that has the fantastic MLA examples would be

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

Hope this helps! I know it really helps me when I do papers.

Answer 5

this is how we cite our textbooks in our school:

Source: The Example in the Modern Era

Author(s): John James and James John

Publisher: Example, example, and example 2005

Page: 99, 100, 101

Answer 6

To elaborate, lets say there are a few lines of text from another source that the textbook uses as a source. Do I use the original as the source, or the textbook, which author is sourced? or is it just a horrible MASH up of sourcing both the textbook and the original piece?

Answer 7

When citing a textbook in APA format, include the author, publication year, book title, edition, publisher, and URL if applicable. For MLA, include author, book title, publisher, publication year, and page numbers. Turabian style requires citing author, title, publisher, year, and sometimes page numbers. Make sure to adhere to the specific citation style guidelines provided by your institution.

Answer 8

Cite by the authors last name and year of publication; e.g. (Smith, 2009). The reference page will include the book title, author, year of publication, publisher, etc.