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12 4.1. Description of a book by one author When describing the book of one author, write the author’s surname and initials indicated on the title page. The surname and initials are separated by a comma. Then give full information on the title of the book, including the type of publication.After a slashwrite as follows: the information about responsibility (authors, compilers, editors, etc.) – Information about the publication.– Place of publication: publisher, date of publication.– Volume (in pages). For example: 1. Nabebin, A.A. Probability theory and mathematical statistics / A.A. Na- bebin. – Moscow: MPEI, 2007. – 208 p. 2. Sheynin, Oscar. Theory of probability and statistics as exemplified in short dictums / O. Sheynin – 2nd, rev. and enlarg. ed.– Berlin: NGVerl, 2009.– 199 p. 4.2. Description of a book by two or three authors When describing the publication of two or three authors, write the name and initials of the first of the authors indicated on the title page. Full information about the authors is given in the information about responsibility after a slash, for example: 1. Melisheva, E. P. Informatics / E. P. Melisheva, D.V. Ivanov. – Yelm, WA, USA: Science Book Publishing House LLC, 2014. – 128 p. 2. Mikhailov, A. I., An introductory course on informatics/documentation / A. I. Mikhailov, R. S. Giljarevskij. – 2nd, rev. and enlarg. ed. – The Hague (Netherlands): International Federation for Documentation, 1971. – 204 p. 4.3. Description of a book by four or more authors If there are more than three authors, the description begins with the title of the book. The information about responsibility includes the names of three authors, instead of other names you should write et al. (and others), for example: 1. Informatics: handbook / A. N. Ermakova, S.V. Bogdanova, D. N. Re- zenkov et al. – Minsk: MEDIASANT, 2015. – 144 p. 2. Social-economic statistics: handbook / L.A. Mikheikina, E.V. Si- birskaya, L.V. Oveshnikova et al. – Moscow: LLC “Publishing house “Yun- iti-Dana”, 2018. – 159 p. 4.4. Description of a book without authors 1. Historical statistics of the United States: earliest times to the present / ed. in chief: Susan B. Carter.– Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006.– 29 p.