<p>I'm writing a paper right now and I have a question - </p>
<p>When you're making citations from whatever novel you're using, how do you make it clear that it's a specific edition of that novel/novella/story-collection? There are numerous editions of any title so where do I make it clear that it's the XYZ edition of 2005 whatever published by so-and-so? </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Have a works cited page with full bibliographical citations.</p>
<p>I'll clarify my question: </p>
<p>For instance, pretend that I plan on making the following citation from a novel because I'm analyzing that novel: </p>
<p>"She was a pretty girl with blonde hair and green-blue eyes." (128) </p>
<p>Where do I include that that page 128 is from the 10th edition of This Imaginary Book about a Blonde-Haired Girl that is of Literary and Cultural Significance that was published by Bantam books because there are about 5-20 different versions of it from different publishers? Do I just casually leave in the (128) and later casually write in that it was the 2005 edition of the Bantam Books copy that was translated by Mary-Jane Stevenson? Or would I do something like this (ABC, 128) because ABC is the abbreviation for Alpha Beta Chi<a href="in%20otherwise,%20another%20title%20that%20includes%20the%20story%20about%20the%20blonde-haired%20girl">/u</a>? Maybe I would write (Stevenson, 128) because Stevenson was the editor (or author or translator) of that novel or collection of stories within that single novel? I think I've see the usage of the latter two ideas simultaneously in journal publications though I am not entirely confident...</p>
<p>You wait until the works cited page to note the specific edition, publisher, and all the other specifics. All you need in the text of the essay itself is enough to be able to tell which citation on the works cited page to look at. </p>
<p>generally, if you're analyzing the novel you'll have made it clear in your prose that the quotation is from that book and all you need is (128). </p>
<p>The reader knows it's from that book and if the reader wants to look it up, the can look on the works cited page, find all the information, and go from there</p>
<p>this site is really good:
<a href="http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/%5B/url%5D">http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/</a></p>
<p>Thank you so much jumbosox! :)</p>