22 Creating Citations for Books/Ebooks
The Ws for the eBook (there are five slides)
The footnote for this eBook:
The citation for the eBook (click image to see it bigger)
The example above is an eBook accessed through a library database (Scholars Portal Books) with no DOI.
- Author: is the book’s individual author. As always, first name(s) followed by last name and a comma in the footnote; Last name followed by first name(s) and a period in the bibliography
- Title: book title and subtitle are capitalized headline-style and in italics. They are always separated by a colon and followed by a period in the bibliography.
- Location 1: the place of publication (city) and the book’s publisher. If the city name could be confused with a city of the same name add the abbreviation of the state, province or country unless the state is part of the publisher’s name. City and publisher are separated by a colon and followed by a comma. City, publisher and date are placed in parenthesis in the footnote and followed by a comma. In the bibliography, there is no parenthesis, and they are followed by a period.
- Date: the date of publication is usually found on the copyright page and generally is the same as the copyright date. In the footnote the date is followed by a comma after the parenthesis; in the bibliography the date is followed by a period.
- Location 2: add the exact page number in your footnote. For eBooks add the doi if available. For eBooks found in a library database that don’t have a doi add the name of the database instead. For eBooks available freely on the internet, add the URL (if there is no doi)
