Identifies works that are based on, about, or of special value when using the materials being described, or works in which a citation to or brief description of the materials occurs.
MIT Practice
This field could include major publications by the author that are pertinent to the collection, publications that provide great insight to the creator of the collection, publications about the collection, or publications that cite the collection. Create list, include MIT Libraries call number for books.
Style Guidelines
Journal article
Author’s last name, author’s first name. “Title of Article.” Journal Title 73, no. 1 (1980).
Powers, James F. “Frontier Municipal Baths and Social Interaction in Thirteenth-Century Spain.” American Historical Review 84 (June 1979).
Book
Single Author
Author’s last name, author’s first name. Title of Book. Place of publication: name of publisher, date. If there is only a place of publication and a date: Place, date.
Killian, James R. Education of a College President: a Memoir. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985.
More than one author
Last name, first name, (comma) then the rest in normal order.
Smith, Jane, John Doe, and Mary Whatshername.
If referring to only one item
Selected letters published as Life and Letters of William Barton Rogers, 1896