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Chicago (18th ed.) Citation Style Guide: Electronic Books

Library E-book (14.60)

Bibliographic Form

Kutscher, Martin L. Digital Kids: How to Balance Screen Time, and Why it Matters. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017. ProQuest Ebook Central.

 

Footnote Form

15. Martin L. Kutscher, Digital Kids: How to Balance Screen Time, and Why it Matters (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017), 109, ProQuest Ebook Central.

 

Shortened Form

16. Kutscher, Digital Kids, 111.

 

"A suitable URL may not be available for books consulted via a commercial library database. Even suggested links listed with the source may work only for subscribers or those with access to a particular library. In such cases, an acceptable alternative is to list the name of the commercial database rather than the URL. Note, however, that this information is optional" (Chicago Manual of Style, 18th ed., 14.60).

Page numbers in e-books (14.159)

Bibliographic Form

Bonds, Mark Evan. Absolute Music: The History of an Idea. Oxford University Press, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof99343638.001.0001.

 

Footnote Form

14. Mark Evan Bonds, Absolute Music: The History of an Idea (Oxford University Press, 2014), chap. 3, https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199343638.003.0004.

 

Shortened Note

15. Bonds, Absolute Music, chap.4.

 

"Many ebook formats feature reflowable text without fixed page numbers...[e]ven when a gook provides fixed location numberes, these may be helpful only to those who consult the same ebook format. It is tehrefor often best to cite a chapter number or a section heading or other such milepost in lieu of a number" (Chicago Manual of Style, 18th ed., 14.59)

E-book with a DOI (14.60)

Bibliographic Form

Antokoletz, Elliot. Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartok. Oxford University Press, 2008. https://doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195365825.001.0001.

 

Footnote Form

14. Elliot Antokoletz, Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartok (Oxford University Press, 2008), 78, https://doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195365825.001.0001.

 

Shortened Note

15. Antokoletz, Musical Symbolism, 80.

 

"Chicago no longer requires a place of publication for books published since 1900" (Chicago Manual of Style, 18th et., 14.29).

E-book with URL (14.60)

Bibliographic Form

Seton, Ernest Thompson. The Trail of the Sandhill Stag. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/.

 

Footnote Form

13. Ernest Thompson Seton, The Trail of the Sandhill Stag (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914), 4, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32319/32319-h/32319-h.htm.

 

Shortened Note

14. Seton, Trail of the Sandhill, 6.

 

"Chicago no longer requires a place of publication for books published since 1900" (Chicago Manual of Style, 18th et., 14.29).