In A Book Report Is It Better To Have More Or Less Citations

How do you use citation for a quote in a book?

well I'm not sure if you wanted it in MLA or APA format so i put both... most people want MLA, but just in case... Also, you need a little more information which can be found in the first few pages of the book, usually on the back of the title page. You need: the volume number if the book has one, the publishing city, the initials of the publishing state... or country if it's not from the US, and the year it was published ... or its latest copyright. Below: the big long one would go in your "works cited" at the end of your paper and the one in parentheses would go at the end of the sentence in your paper where you use the quotation from the book.

MLA format:
Beebe, Steven A., Susan J. Beebe, and Mark V. Redmond. Interpersonal Communication- Relating to Others. 6th ed. VOLUME NUMBER (IF IT HAS ONE). PUBLISHING CITY, STATE (OR COUNTRY) INITIALS: PUBLISHING COMPANY, YEAR PUBLISHED OR COPYRIGHT. 172. Print.

(Beebe, Beebe, and Redmond 172)

APA format:
Beebe, S. A., Beebe, S. J., & Redmond, M. V. (YEAR PUBLISHED OR COPYRIGHT). Interpersonal communication- relating to others. PUBLISHING CITY, STATE (OR COUNTRY) INITIALS: PUBLISHING COMPANY.

(Beebe, Beebe, & Redmond, YEAR PUBLISHED OR COPYRIGHT)

How to cite this book for biology report?

I'm very confused and have a report due soon but our teacher never went over it in class. I dont know even if to follow APA or MLA format but she told us last time to use the formatting on this website (link below). Still I don't get how to use my book's info. It says to put book cited like this below:

"Jones E. and Smith B. 2010. Title. Journal vol. pp. Chapter, Publisher, City, State"

So what I don't get is what is the journal and chapter number supposed to be? I cant find that info anywhere on my book. I've used 3 different chapters from my book so do I have to list all of them (for example: Chapters 3, 5, and 7) for that "chapter" part ..or do I cite the same book 3 times, one for each chapt??

I tried looking up online but got different ways of citing it than what she told us, so I just don't know what to put. Here is my boo kbelow. I hope someone can help me with citing it or at least tell me about the parts I asked before what I am to put. thanks!
My book info below (ISBN: 978-0-321-71271-4 , for those who want to see it themselves)

Author: Robert W. Bauman
Title: MICROBIOLOGY with Diseases By Body System
Publication date: 2011

Not sure of what the journal would be (this is a text book) but here's the other info that sounds relevant:

Amarillo College
3rd Edition book
Pearson Education, Inc.
Published as Benjamin Cummings, 1301 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA 94111


I'm sorry I just put all the info above but I dont get how to use this info to cite it like the example above. Also, should I captalize the Microbiology part to and write it exactly as in the title??

THANKS SO MUCH. I definitely am giving best answer to the one who helps most!! =)

What is the citation of the book Night, by Elie Wiesel?

what do you mean by citation? I can probably help if you give more detail

Can I put too many in text citations?

Yes, you can definitely overdo text citations. At university you're taught to avoid direct quotations by paraphrasing as much as you can. Therewith showing you actually understood the quote. But do give the correct footnotes, following one style. For American academic writing there are several referencing styles available. If you weren't told to use a specific one, I would advise you to use the Turabian, explained in short at [1]. It is, in my eyes, the most sensible. A more general alternative is the MLA style at [2]

For a book review, for example, you would outline the plot and paraphrase the most important bits, giving only citations where it is significantly important for the understanding of the character or the plot. You should therefore limit your direct quotations to two or three sentences a page. Put them in quotation marks and add a footnote (giving the quoted book, its edition, the page and line).

There is a very profound Advice on Academic Writing at [3], also convering topics like formulating questions answered later in your progress.

So, you perhaps don't have to do it that elaborate, but you can still risk a brief look at the high art of academic writing ;-) Good luck!

What is an example of citations from well-known authorities?

That depends on whether it's MLA or APA. MLA is more for Reviews and Book Reports. APA is more used for Medical and Scientific reports.

MLA should start with name of the author/authors, Title of the Reference material ( book/ journal ), Name of Publication ( who published it ), Year it was published.
These also varied with which type of Reference you are using. For example it's different for a journal Citation than it is for a New Report done on T.V..
Same for APA. The citation page should always be in Alphabetical order. With a journal you should also include the pages where you can find the specific article along with the Volume/ Issue of the journal and Year it was published.

MLA Ex:
Okuda, Michael, and Denise Okuda. Star Trek Chronology: The History
of the Future. New York: Pocket, 1993. * The Title of the Book should be underlined or in Quotes. *

APA Ex:
Wilcox, R. V. (1991). Shifting roles and synthetic women in Star trek:
The next generation. Studies in Popular Culture, 13(2), 53-65

Do cops make commission $ by writing out citations/tickets?

First off, dispite popular belief police do not have a quota. Second the state in which you commited the violation determines the fine if it is a state citation. City ordinances are a whole nother story. Unfortunately you probably ran into an officer who may have gotten up on the wrong side of the bed that morning, or maybe he is just a "by the book" kinda guy. I'm sure it was nothing personal.