Online Book
You may need to consult more than one section to accurately represent the source used (eg. number of authors and source descriptions)
Format for in-text citation
Example: in-text citation
In a major study (Hunter 2015)…
OR
Bryzgel (2017) argued…
OR (if paginated)
Hunter (2015, 8) describes…
OR (if not paginated)
Bryzgel (2017, chap.5) outlines the impact...
Format for reference list
Elements, punctuation & capitalisation
Author(s). Year of publication. Title of Book. Place of publication: Publisher. URL/DOI/Format/Device/Database name.
Reference list example
Hunter, Victoria, ed. 2015. Moving Sites : Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance. London: Taylor & Francis Group. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/unimelb/detail.action?docID=2005377.
Bryzgel, Amy. 2017. Performance Art in Eastern Europe since 1960. Manchester: Manchester University Press. www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvnb7qtg.
Style notes for this reference type
- Include the surname only in in-text citations.
- In-text citations with four or more authors list the first author's surname following by et al., e.g. (Sutherland et al. 2017).
- In the reference list, invert the name of the first author only.
- Where there are four to ten authors, list them all in the reference list.
- Where there are more than ten authors, list the first seven in the reference list, followed by et al. (see Manual 14.76).
- In the reference list, works without an author should appear alphabetically by the main word of the title (ignore 'the', 'a', and 'an').
- Specify the edition if it is not the first edition.
- For online books include the DOI (or URL) as the last part of the citations and refer to section headings in lieu of page numbers.
- 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).
- 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).
- 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.
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