How To Cite A Quote From A Book

Since the frontispiece is likely on an unnumbered page indicate in your prose that you are citing material from a frontispiece as shown in the example below.

How to cite a quote from a book. Look on the back of the book or in the first few pages for this. 284 states that you should use the original source if you can find it. To cite a book in APA style you need to have basic information including the authors publication year book title and publisher.

When making reference to the spoken words of someone other than the author recorded in a text cite the name of the person and the name of the author date and page reference of the work in which the quote or reference appears. Author Surname Publication Year. For example if you read Chans book published in 2002 and wanted to quote or paraphrase Chans quotation of Nguyen who published her work in 1999 your in-text citation will look like this.

If it spans a page range use pp. After all the best research. For only one page and pp.

Start the quotation on a new line with the entire quote indented 12 inch from the left margin while maintaining double-spacing. For help with other source types like books PDFs or websites check out our other guides. To cite a book chapter first give the author and title in quotation marks of the chapter cited then information about the book as a whole and the page range of the specific chapter.

For sources such as websites and e-books that have no page numbers use a paragraph. However if you need to cite an indirect source as the manual refers to secondary sources if what you quote or paraphrase is itself a quotation put the abbreviation qtd. Name of e-book device.

In quoted in before the indirect source you cite in your parenthetical reference. For two or more. Name of website or database.