2.4 Citing Books, Articles, and Essays

Most secondary sources in student papers will be cited as books, chapters, journal articles, or essays. For these sources, give enough information for the reader to identify the author, title, publication, and location of the material cited. In footnotes, include a page number when referring to a specific passage, claim, or argument. In the bibliography, give the full publication information for the source as a whole.

A book by one author is cited by author, title, publication information, and page number in the note. A bibliography entry gives the same basic information, but the author’s name is inverted and no specific page number is included unless the paper uses only a particular section of the work.

Book by One Author

First note:

• 1. Richard Kaczynski, Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley, rev. ed. (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2010), 213.

Shortened note:

• 2. Kaczynski, Perdurabo, 213.

Bibliography:

Kaczynski, Richard. Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley. Rev. ed. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2010.

Chapter in an Edited Book

For a chapter or essay in an edited book, cite the author of the chapter or essay first, not the editor of the volume. The note should include the chapter or essay title, the title of the edited volume, the editor, publication information, and the page cited. The bibliography should include the full page range of the chapter or essay.

First note:

• 3. Henrik Bogdan, “Envisioning the Birth of a New Aeon: Dispensationalism and Millenarianism in the Thelemic Tradition,” in Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism, ed. Henrik Bogdan and Martin P. Starr (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 89.

Shortened note:

• 4. Bogdan, “Envisioning the Birth,” 89.

Bibliography:

Bogdan, Henrik. “Envisioning the Birth of a New Aeon: Dispensationalism and Millenarianism in the Thelemic Tradition.” In Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism, edited by Henrik Bogdan and Martin P. Starr, 89–110. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Journal Article

For a journal article, cite the author, article title, journal title, volume number, issue number if available, year, and page cited. The bibliography should include the full page range of the article. If the article was consulted online, include a DOI or stable URL when one is available.

First note:

• 5. Manon Hedenborg White, “Proximal Authority: The Changing Role of Leah Hirsig in Aleister Crowley’s Thelema, 1919–1930,” Aries 21, no. 1 (2021): 70.

Shortened note:

• 6. Hedenborg White, “Proximal Authority,” 70.

Bibliography:

Hedenborg White, Manon. “Proximal Authority: The Changing Role of Leah Hirsig in Aleister Crowley’s Thelema, 1919–1930.” Aries 21, no. 1 (2021): 69–93.

When citing essays, articles, or chapters, be careful not to confuse the title of the individual piece with the title of the book, journal, or collection in which it appears. The title of the individual essay or article is placed in quotation marks. The title of the book or journal is italicized.