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Chicago (17th ed.) Citation Style Guide: Electronic Books

Library E-book (14.161)

Bibliographic Form

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

 

Footnote Form

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

 

Shortened Form

16. Kutscher, Digital Kids, 111.

 

"For in-copyright books, consulted through a commercial library database, a suitable URL may not be available...list the name of the commercial database rather than the URL." (Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed., p. 827)

E-book with no Fixed Page Numbers (14.160, 14.161)

Bibliographic Form

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

 

Shortened Note

15. Bonds, Absolute Music, chap.4.

This item did not have fixed page numbers so the reference includes the chapter.  For more information on page or location numbers in electronic formats, please refer to the Chicago Manual of Style, 17 ed., p. 825).

E-book with a DOI (14.161)

Bibliographic Form

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

 

Shortened Note

15. Antokoletz, Musical Symbolism, 80.

E-book with URL (14.161)

Bibliographic Form

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

 

Footnote Form

13. Ernest Thompson Seton, The Trail of the Sandhill Stag (New York: 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.