A book with one author
Frye, Northrup. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton: Princeton
UP, 1957.
A book with more than one author
Gesell, Arnold, and Frances L. Ing. Child Development: An
Introduction to the Study of Human Growth. New
York: Macmillan,1960.
N.B. If there are three or more authors, you may list only the first author and add et al. (which means "and others") in place of the other authors' names, or you may list all the authors in the order in which their names appear on the title page.
A book with no author named
Encyclopedia of Photography. New York: Crown, 1984.
An anthology or collection
Rueschemeyer, Marilyn, ed. Women in the Politics of Postcommunist
Eastern Europe. Armonk: Sharpe, 1994.
An essay in a collection (that is, one article in a book that has a collection of articles by different authors; articles in Seeing and Writing fall under this category)
Krutch, Joseph Wood. "What the Year 2000 Won't Be Like." Finding a
Voice. Ed. Jim W. Corder. Glenview: Scott Foresman, 1973.
21-36.
An article from a reference book
"Mandarin." Encyclopedia Americana. 1980 ed.
An essay in a journal with continuous pagination (That is, the first issue of a given year starts at page 1; subsequent issues start where issue one left off: e.g. Issue 1 has pages 1-176; Issue 2 would start at page 177, and so forth.)
Flanigan, Beverly Olson. "Peer Tutoring in the Elementary School."
Applied Linguistics 12 (1991): 141-58. ("12" is the volume number.)
An essay in a journal that pages each issue separately (that is, each issue of a particular year starts with page 1.)
Barthelme, Frederick. "Architecture." Kansas Quarterly 13. 3 (1981):
77-80. (Notice that you include the issue # -- in this case "3" -- with journals that number each issue separately. No issue number is needed for journals with continuous pagination).
A magazine or newspaper article (Sometimes students have a hard time deciding whether a source is a magazine or journal. Generally, if the source doesn't have the word "journal" in it, AND it is published weekly or monthly, treat it as a magazine.)
Monthly magazine
Nimmons, David. "Sex and the Brain." Discover Mar. 1994: 26-27.
Weekly Magazine
Matthew, Sharon. "The New Candidates." Time 27 Jan. 1991: 14-18. (Note carefully the format for a date: day month year. Use this same format for a newspaper article.)
A government publication
United States Dept. of Labor. Bureau of Statistics. Dictionary of
Occupational Titles. 4th ed. Washington: GPO, 1977.