E-book
To cite a book consulted online, include either a URL or the name of the database in the reference list entry. For downloadable ebook formats, name the format; if no fixed page numbers are available, cite a section title or a chapter or other number in the text (or simply omit). For citing a place rather than a publisher for books published before 1900 (as in the Moby-Dick example below), see CMOS 14.31.
In-text citations
(Borel 2023, 92)
(Kurland and Lerner 1987, chap. 10, doc. 19)
(Melville 1851, 627)
(Roy 2008, chap. 6)
For more details and examples, see CMOS 14.58–62.
Reference list entries (in alphabetical order)
- Borel, Brooke. 2023. The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking. 2nd ed. University of Chicago Press. EBSCOhost.
- Kurland, Philip B., and Ralph Lerner, eds. 1987. The Founders’ Constitution. University of Chicago Press. https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/.
- Melville, Herman. 1851. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. New York. https://melville.electroniclibrary.org/moby-dick-side-by-side.
- Roy, Arundhati. 2008. The God of Small Things. Random House. Kindle.
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