Learning Resources: IEEE Referencing Guide: Introduction

Books - Introduction

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 initial/s Author’s surname.
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.
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.