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Properly citing eBooks in your work depends on the style guide you are following. Below are citation examples for APA, Chicago Manual of Style, and MLA formats to help you with your eBook citations. For additional citation help, visit the sources included at the bottom of the page.
Citation examples are from the LibGuide: How to Cite References Using APA Style
eBook from a website without a DOI
London, C. (1921). The book of Jack London (Vol. 1). The Century Co. https://archive.org/details/bookofjacklondon00lond/page/n10/mode/2up
eBook with DOI
Schiraldi, G. R. (2001). The post-traumatic stress disorder sourcebook: A guide to healing, recovery, and growth. Lowell House. https://doi.org/10.10.36/0071393722
eBook from a database
Munroe, M. (2009). Echoes of the Haitian Revolution, 1804-2004. University of the West Indies Press.
Provide database information only when it is necessary for readers to retrieve the cited work from that exact database, or when the database publishes original proprietary works available only in that database. Most published resources from academic databases are widely available. Always include the doi if available.
eBook only (no print version, no DOI)
O’Keefe, E. (n.d.). Egoism & the crisis in Western values. http://www.onlineoriginals.com/showitem.asp?itemID=135
Chapter in an eBook
Strong, E. K. Jr., & Uhrbrock, R. S. (1923). Bibliography on job analysis. In L. Outhwaite (Series Ed.), Personnel Research Series: Vol. 1. Job analysis and the curriculum (pp. 140-146). https://doi.org/10.1037/10762-000
Citation examples are from the LibGuide: How to Cite References Using Chicago Style/Turabian
Listed below are examples of proper formatting of bibliographic references (B) and a corresponding footnote/endnote (N) for each source type.
eBook
B: Davidson, Donald. Essays on Actions and Events. Oxford: Clarendon, 2001. https://bibliotecamathom.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/essays-on-actions-and-events.pdf.
N: 10. Donald Davidson, Essays on Actions and Events (Oxford: Clarendon, 2001), https://bibliotecamathom.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/essays-on-actions-and-events.pdf.
eBook from a database
B: Borel, Brooke. Infested: How the Bed But Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. EBSCOhost.
N: 11. Brooke Borel, Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015), 59, EBSCOhost.
Chapter in an eBook (include the URL which is based on the DOI for the specific chapter instead of the work as a whole)
B: Bonds, Mark Evan. Absolute Music: The History of an Idea. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199343638.001.0001
N: 12. Mark Evan Bonds, Absolute Music: The History of an Idea (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), chap. 3, https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199343638.001.0001.
Citation examples are from the LibGuide: How To Cite References Using MLA Style
eBook
Austen, Jane, and Seth Grahame-Smith. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Quirk, 2015. Google Books, books.google.com/books?id=x5xPaPeZzmUC&dq=zombies&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=zombies&f=false.
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