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Legal Citation: Books

Core elements in a Book citation

  • Author
  • Title
  • Edition
  • Place of Publication
  • Publisher
  • Year of Publication

General Form

Author

 title, edition (place of publication: publisher, year of publication) pinpoint (electronic service) if applicable
Vaver, David. Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patents, Trade-marks, 2d ed (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2011) at 88.  

 

Edited works,

Michael A. Geist, ed, The Copyright Pentalogy: How the Supreme Court of Canada Shook the Foundations of Canadian Copyright Law (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2013).

Unpublished works:

Angela S. Regnier, Mapping the Freedome to Learn: Marking the Case for Student Academic Freedom in Canada (LL.M. Thesis, Osgoode Hall Law School, 2013) [unpublished].

 

 

 

 

Author

  • Usually, copy the name of the author as shown or printed on the book title page.
  • Use an ampersand (&) to connect joint authors.
  • If more than three authors, include only the first author, and use "et al" after the first author's name. For example,

Title

  • Copy the full title as appeared on the book title page, in italics.
  • If the title is in a language other than English and French, provide the title in the original language, followed by a translation of the title in English in parentheses, or provide a translation in English, followed by the title in the original language in parentheses.

Edition