Sacred Text
The Holy Bible. (2003). Wheaton, IL: Crossway-Good News. English Standard Version.
A Book by a Single Author or Editor
Graham, J. (Ed.). (1990). The best American poetry: 1990. New York, NY: MacMillan.
Simon, K. (1990). Etchings in an hourglass. New York, NY: Harper.
A Book by an Agency or Corporation:
American Medical Association. (2000). Essential guide to depression. New York, NY: Pocket Books.
A Book by Two or Three Authors or Editors:
Enright, R. D., & North, J. (Eds.). (1998). Exploring forgiveness. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
A Book by More than Three Authors or Editors:
Edens, W., et al. (1977). Teaching Shakespeare. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Senior, D., et al. (Eds.). (1990). The Catholic study Bible. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
A Book by an Unknown Author (Anonymous):
What life was like at the dawn of democracy: Classical Athens, 525-322 B.C. (1977). Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books.
An Edition Prepared by a Named Editor:
Arnold, M. (1979). The poems of Matthew Arnold. (K. Allott, ed.). London: Longman.
Short Works Collected in Larger Works (Anthology):
Frye, N. (1984). Literary and linguistic scholarship in a postliterate age. In R. D. Denham (Ed.), Myth and metaphor: Selected essays, 1974-1988 (pp. 18-27). Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia. (Reprinted from (1984) PMLA 95(5), 990-995).
Harrington, D. J. (1990). Mark. In R. E. Brown, J. A. Fitzmyer, & R. E. Murphy (Eds.), The new Jerome biblical commentary (pp. 618-619). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Thoreau, H. (1989). Resistance to civil government. In N. Baym (Ed.), The Norton anthology of American literature (3rd ed., pp. 1620-1635). New York, NY: Norton.
Translation of a Work:
Mahfouz, N. (1995). Arabian nights and days. Translated by D. Johnson-Davies. New York, NY: Doubleday.
An Introduction, Preface, Foreword, or Afterword:
Gill, S. (1999). Introduction. In C. Dickens, Oliver Twist (pp. vii-xxv). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Publication manual of the American Psychological Association. 6th ed.
Concise rules of APA style