LibGuides: 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.