CSE Harvard: Citing Books

Need a refresher? What is CSE Harvard (Name-Year) Style?

  1. Book with One Author
  2. Book with More than One Author
  3. Book with an Editor
  4. Book with an Organization as an Author
  5. Chapter in a Book
  6. eBook

Book with One Author

General format:

Author. Date. Title. Place of publication: publisher. Extent. Notes.

Example:

McCormac JC. 2004. Surveying. Hoboken (NJ): John Wiley & Sons.

Book with More than One Author

General format:

Author(s). Date. Title. Edition. Place of publication: publisher. Extent. Notes.

Example:

Seinfeld JH, Pandis SN. 2016. Atmospheric chemistry and physics: from air pollution to climate change. 3rd ed. Hoboken (NJ): Wiley.

Book with an Editor

General format:

Author(s), editor(s). Date. Title. Edition. Place of publication: publisher. Extent.

Example:

Adams WP, Taylor CH, editors. 2009. Peterborough and the Kawarthas. 3rd edition. Peterborough (ON): Department of Geography, Trent University.

Book with an Organization as an Author

General format:

Organization name. Date. Title. Place of publication: publisher.

Example:

[NRC] National Research Council (US). 2004. Committee on Scientific Assessment of Bullet Lead Elemental Composition Comparison, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (BCST), Division of Earth and Life Studies (DELS), National Research Council of the National Academies. Forensic analysis: weighing bullet lead evidence. Washington (DC): National Academies Press.

Note:

  1. Put the organization’s acronym at the beginning of the reference if you have referred to the organization with an acronym in your text.

Chapter in a Book

General format:

Author. Date. Title. Place of publication: publisher; date. Extent or part of book. Notes.

Example:

Stewart J, Davison TMK, Ferroni B, Carter J, Hamilton OMG, Laxton J, Lenz MP. 1989. Calculus: a first course. Toronto (ON): McGraw Hill Ryerson. Chapter 2, Derivatives; p. 65-116.

eBook

General format:

Author(s). Date. Title. Place of publication: publisher; date of publication [date updated; date accessed]. Notes.

Example:

Jenkins AJ, editor. c2008. Drug testing in alternate biological specimens. Totowa (NJ): Humana. [updated 2008; accessed 2010 Feb 25]. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ocultrent/docDetail.action?docID=1023757

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