Books - Introduction
If you wish to reference an electronic/online copy of a book that is identical in content, layout, publication details and pagination as the printed copy, then you may simply reference it in exactly the same way as you would reference a printed copy - there is no need to make any distinction.
A reference for a book generally require the following pieces of information:
[#] Author(s) Initial(s). Surname(s), Title of the Book, xth ed. Place of Publisher, (U.S. State or Country if the City is not ‘well known’): Publisher, Year of Publication, pp. xxx–xxx. (If appropriate)
Referencing elements to cite:
- [#] Reference number (matching the in-text citation number)
- Author’s first initial. Author’s second initial, if provided. Author’s last name
- Add Ed. or Eds. after author(s) surname(s) if author(s) are also editor(s) of the book, for example, C. Baird and C. Ludlow, Eds., Design of ...
- Title: Subtitle of the Book in italics. Important words of the title are capitalised, but not minor ones, such as ‘and’, ‘of’, ‘on’, etc.
- If the book is a second or subsequent edition, include the edition statement, e.g. 5th ed.
- Place of publication.
- Publisher
- Year of publication.
- If the publication date of the work cannot be determined, provide the abbreviation n.d. in the place of the year in the publication details eg. n.d.or [1690?]
- Page number(s) if appropriate. Page numbers are cited as p. for a single page or pp. for multiple pages.
Example
[8] M. N. DeMers, Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems, 3rd ed. New York: John Wiley, 2005.
