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McGill Style Guide (10th ed).

Books

Follow the order of information, punctuation, and capitalization in the examples below. Books are described in section 6.2 of the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (10th ed.).

Author's First Name Second Name (if given) Author's Last Name, Title of Book in Italics, Edition (Location: Publisher, Year) Pinpoint.

Examples

One and Two Authors:

Patricia S. Knight, Ethics and Professional Practice for Paralegals, 5th ed (Toronto: Emond, 2020) at 10.

John Fairlie & James Philip Sworden, Introduction to Law in Canada (Toronto: Emond Montgomery Publishers, 2014) at 5.

More Than Three Authors:

Robert K Patterson et al, International Trad and Investment Law in Canada, 2nd ed (Scarborough, ON: Carswell, 1994) at 10.

NOTE: If there are more than three authors, list the first author followed by the term "et al" (see section 6.2.2.2); Include the abbreviated country, state, or province after the Location, if the publisher's location is ambiguous (see section 6.2.7).

Your professor may have different citing expectations than library staff. Always check at the beginning of term and before starting assignments that the citing rules you are using are appropriate for your class.

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