Subject Guides: Chicago Style Guide: 17th Edition: E-Book

Electronic Books (E-books) (Sec 14.161)

E-books 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 included at the end of the citation.

Notes
Bibliography

Full Note:

1. Author First Name/Initial Surname, 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.

Subsequent Note:

3. Author Surname, Book Title, page #.

Example:

3. Waterston, Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs, 78.

Bibliography:

Author Surname, First Name or Initial. 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.

Waterston, Elizabeth Hillman. Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs: College Life in Wartime, 1939-1942.

Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012. ProQuest. Ebook Central.