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Chicago Manual of Style

Electronic Books (eBooks) (Sec 14.58-61)

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 a DOI, URL, Kindle, EPUB, or the name of a database. If DOI is available, use that as the basis for the URL.

General Format 

Full Note: 

1. Author First Name/Initial Surname, Book Title: Subtitle of the Book (Publisher, Year), page #. Format/URL/DOI/Commercial Database.

2. Author First Name/Initial Surname, Book Title: Subtitle of the Book (Place of Publication if published before 1900, Year), page #. Format/URL/DOI/Commercial Database.

 
Example: 

1. Elizabeth Hillman Waterston, Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs: College Life in Wartime, 1939-1942 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012), 54. ProQuest Ebook Central. 

2. Eiichiro Azuma, Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America (Oxford University Press, 2005), 72. DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195159400.001.0001.

3. John Douglas Belshaw, Canadian History: Post-Confederation, 2nd ed.(BCcampus, 2020), sec. 2.6. https://opentextbc.ca/postconfederation2e/

 
Subsequent Note: 

4. Author Surname, Book Title, page #. 

 
Example:   

5. Waterston, Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs, 78.

   
Bibliography:

Author Surname, First Name or Initial. Book Title: Subtitle of the Book. Publisher, Year. Format/URL/DOI/Commercial Database.

Author Surname, First Name or Initial. Book Title: Subtitle of the Book. Place of Publication if published before 1900, Year. Format/URL/DOI/Commercial Database.

Example:   

Azuma, Eiichiro. Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America. Oxford University Press, 2005. DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195159400.001.0001.

Belshaw, John Douglas. Canadian History: Post-Confederation, 2nd ed. BCcampus, 2020. https://opentextbc.ca/postconfederation2e/

Waterston, Elizabeth Hillman. Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs: College Life in Wartime, 1939-1942. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012. ProQuest. Ebook Central.

Freely Available Electronic Editions of Older Works (Sec. 14.162)

When possible, use scanned pages of original text to reflowable text (i.e., webpages) when citing sources so that page numbers are available.

General Format 

Full Note: 

1. Author First Name/Initial Surname, Book Title: Subtitle (Place of Publication:
Publisher, Year), page #. URL.
 
Example: 
1. Susanna Moodie, Roughing it in the Bush, or, Life in Canada (Toronto: Richard Bentley,
1852), 24-25. https://archive.org/details/roughingitinbush01mood.
2. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth
Ecclesiastical and Civill ([London]: Andrew Crooke, 1651; Project Gutenberg, 2009),
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3207.  
 
Subsequent Note: 
 3. Author Surname, Book Title, page #. 
 
Example:   
 3. Moodie, Roughing it in the Bush, 78.
   
Bibliography:
Author Surname, First Name or Initial. Book Title: Subtitle. Place of Publication:
Publisher, Year. URL.
 
Example:   
​Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan, Or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth 
Ecclesiastical and Civill. [London]: Andrew Crooke, 1651. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3207
 
Moodie, Susanna. Roughing it in the Bush, or, Life in Canada. Toronto: Richard Bentley, 1852.
https://archive.org/details/roughingitinbush01mood.
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