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Cite in ASA Style: References: Books

General Format

Notes:

  • Use the heading REFERENCES, centered, and all reference entries are alphabetized, double-spaced, and with a hanging indent.
  • List all authors of a publication, up to 10. If there are more than 10, list the first 7 and then et al. 
  • A DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is a stable URL; most often used for e-books. Look up a DOI here.

Books

Last name, First name. Year of Publication. Title of Book. City of Publication, State Initials: Publisher.

Criado-Perez, Caroline. 2019. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men. New York, NY: Abrams Press.

Book Chapters

Last name, First name and First name Last name. Year of Publication. "Title of Chapter." Pp. starting page-ending page in Title of Book, edited by First name Last Name. City of Publication, State Initials: Publisher Name.

Mays, Kyle T. 2021. "Blackness and Indigeneity." Pp. 123-125 in Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. New York, NY: One World.

E-Books

Available via the internet

Last name, First name. Year of Publication. Title of Book. City of Publication, State Initials: Publisher. URL.

Haeckel, Ernst. 2021. The Evolution of Man. Project Gutenberg. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8700. 

 

Available via specific platform or reader

Last name, First name. Year of Publication. Title of Book. City of Publication, State Initials: Publisher. Name of platform.

Smelser, Neil J. 2014. Getting Sociology Right: A Half-Century of Reflections. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. JSTOR.