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Authors are listed by first initial, middle initial, and last name with punctuation (eg: E. B. White). If there are two authors, list them both separated by the word "and." If there are more than six authors, list on the first author's name, followed by et al. Book titles are italicized; chapter titles are not. Only the first word of chapter titles are capitalized, but book titles follow conventional capitalization rules.
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Author(s), Book Title, xth ed. City of Publisher, State, Country: Publisher Name, year, ch. x, sec. x, pp. xxx–xxx. [Online]. Available: URL.
P. B. Kurland and R. Lerner, Eds., The Founders’ Constitution. Chicago, IL, USA: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1987. Accessed: Feb. 28, 2010. [Online]. Available: http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/
Author(s), “Chapter title,” in Book Title, xth ed. City of Publisher, State, Country: Publisher Name, year, ch. x, sec. x, pp. xxx–xxx. [Online]. Available: URL.
G. O. Young, “Synthetic structure of industrial plastics,” in Plastics, vol. 3, Polymers of Hexadromicon, J. Peters, Ed., 2nd ed. New York, NY, USA: McGraw-Hill, 1964, pp. 15–64. [Online]. Available: http://www.bookref.com.
Author(s), Book Title, xth ed. City of Publisher, State, Country: Publisher Name, year.
B. Klaus and P. Horn, Robot Vision. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press, 1986.
Author(s), “Chapter title” in Book Title, xth ed. City of Publisher, State, Country: Publisher Name, year, ch. x, sec. x, pp. xxx–xxx.
L. Stein, “Random patterns,” in Computers and You, J. S. Brake, Ed. New York, NY, USA: Wiley, 1994, pp. 55–70.
