How to Cite a Book / Where to Find the Information
The following overview may demonstrate, where in a book you get the basic information from regarding author, title, publishing place, publisher, publishing year. All this should be cited in the bibliography and footnotes.
Most information can be found on the title page (see below 1) and the colophon (see below 2).
Monographs / General form:
Surname, Name [of the Author], Title of the Book [in italics, capitalized], Place of publication: Publisher, Year of publication
Our example is an important handbook for architectural history:
Koch, Wilfried, Architectural Styles, London [et al.]: Foulsham & Co, 1980 (orig. German edition, Kleine Stilkunde der Baukunst, Gütersloh: Bertelsmann, 1967)
建築風格學 : 歐洲建築藝術的典型-從古典到當代 / 威爾弗利德.柯霍 (Wilfried Koch) 作，陳瀅世審譯，臺北市 : 龍溪國際圖書，2006。
Further information on this book:
In 1967, German artist, art historian, writer and musician Wilfried Koch (b. 1929) published for the first time his Kleine Stilkunde der Baukunst (Small History of Architectural Styles). Numerous new (enlarged and updated) German editions and translations into more than 20 languages—including Chinese and Japanese—bear witness to the book’s great worldwide success.
“The Koch” offers a clear, concise and consistent introduction into the stylistic developments of European architecture and contains a glossary (dictionary of technical terms) of architectural terminology. As such, the book helped generations of architectural historians and architects to learn the basics of European architectural history and architectural terminology.
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Technical information ISBN [Type face] Copyright |
