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Chicago 17 Resource Center: eBooks

eBooks

Before starting the citation process, please make sure you are using the correct CMS style as required by your instructor!

Special Notes:

  • Ebooks are cited the exact same way as their print counterparts, but have the addition of a "media marker" at the end of the citation, such as Kindle edition, PDF e-book, Microsoft Reader e-book, CD-ROM, etc.
  • Books consulted online are also cited the same way as their print counterparts, but have the DOI or URL (if publicly available) included at the end of the citation.
  • If the online book is from one of the library's databases, specify which one.

Electronic Book

Full Note:

1. AuthorFirstName MiddleInitial. LastName, Book Title: Subtitle (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year), page #. Format/URL/DOI/Commercial Database.

Example:

1. Elizabeth Hillman Waterston, Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs: College Life in Wartime, 1939-1942 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012), 54. ProQuest Ebook Central.

2. Eiichiro Azuma, Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 72. DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195159400.001.0001.

3. John Douglas Belshaw, Canadian History: Post-Confederation, 2nd ed.(Victoria, BC: BCcampus, 2020), sec. 2.6. https://opentextbc.ca/postconfederation2e/.


Subsequent Note:

4. AuthorLastName, Book Title, page #.

Example:

5. Waterston, Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs, 78.


Bibliography:

AuthorLastName, FirstName MiddleInitial. Book Title: Subtitle. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year. Format/URL/DOI/Commercial Database.

Example:

Azuma, Eiichiro. Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195159400.001.0001.

Belshaw, John Douglas. Canadian History: Post-Confederation, 2nd ed. Victoria, BC: BCcampus, 2020. https://opentextbc.ca/postconfederation2e/.

Waterston, Elizabeth Hillman. Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs: College Life in Wartime, 1939-1942. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012. ProQuest Ebook Central.

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