A bibliographic entry for a book should generally include the following:
- Author’s name, inverted
(You may have one or several authors, with only the first name inverted; a corporate author; an editor or compiler, if there is no author; or a translator or illustrator, if either is the focus of the study.)
- Title, in italics (includes title and subtitle, separated by a colon and a space)
- Secondary responsibility (editor, translator, compiler, preface writer, etc.)
- Edition (other than the first)
- Publication data (place of publication: publisher, date)
These components are separated by periods and a space, and the second and subsequent lines of an entry are indented.
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