Online book


You may need to consult more than one section to accurately represent the source used (eg. number of authors and source descriptions)


Elements, punctuation & capitalisation

22. Author(s), Title of Book, (Place of publication: Publisher, year), section heading or chapter, URL/DOI/Format/Device/Database name.

Footnote example

First entry:

22. Brian McNair, Cultural Chaos: Journalism, News and Power in a Globalised World, (London: Routledge, 2006), under "Cultural Chaos and the End of Ideology," https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=sso&db=nlebk&AN=157741&site=ehost-live&custid=s2775460

OR

22. Brian McNair, Cultural Chaos: Journalism, News and Power in a Globalised World, (London: Routledge, 2006), chap. 5, eBook Collection (EBSCOhost).

Second and subsequent entries:

27. McNair, "Part II," under "Cultural Capitalism and the Commodification of Dissent".

OR

27. McNair, chap. 6.

Format for bibliography entries

Elements, punctuation & capitalisation

Author(s). Title of Book. Place of publication: Publisher, year. URL/DOI/Format/Device/Database name.

Bibliography entry example

McNair, Brian. Cultural Chaos: Journalism, News and Power in a Globalised World. London: Routledge, 2006. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=sso&db=nlebk&AN=157741&site=ehost-live&custid=s2775460

OR

McNair, Brian. Cultural Chaos: Journalism, News and Power in a Globalised World. London: Routledge, 2006. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost).

Style notes for this reference type

  • See Manual 14.159, 14.160 and 14.161.
  • Include the URL, DOI or other device information as the last part of the citation.
  • Sometimes a suitable URL is not available, or is only for subscribers of the database. In these cases it is appropriate to just include the database name (i.e. eBook Collection) (Manual 14.161).
  • Refer to section and/or chapter headings in lieu of page numbers (Manual 14.160).
  • Cite chapters in edited books as you would a print version.
  • For books requiring a specific device or application to read, you may include that detail in place of a URL or DOI (i.e. Kindle. iBooks. Adobe Digital Editions EPUB) (Manual 14.159).
  • Specify the edition if it is not the first edition.
  • In the bibliography (but not the footnotes), invert the name (i.e. surname, given name).
  • In the bibliography, works without an author should appear alphabetically by the main word of the title (ignore ‘the’, ‘a’ and ‘an’).
  • Use the shortened form for second and subsequent footnotes.

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