E-book
To cite a book consulted online, include either a URL or the name of the database. 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 note (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 notes
1 Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (Random House, 2008), chap. 6, Kindle.
2 Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner, eds., The Founders’ Constitution (University of Chicago Press, 1987), chap. 10, doc. 19, https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/.
3 Brooke Borel, The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking, 2nd ed. (University of Chicago Press, 2023), 92, EBSCOhost.
4 Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (New York, 1851), 627, https://melville.electroniclibrary.org/moby-dick-side-by-side.
Shortened notes (following notes)
5 Roy, God of Small Things, chap. 7.
6 Kurland and Lerner, Founders’ Constitution, chap. 4, doc. 29.
7 Borel, Fact-Checking, 104–5.
8 Melville, Moby-Dick, 722–23.
Reference list entries (in alphabetical order)
- Borel, Brooke. The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking. 2nd ed. University of Chicago Press, 2023. EBSCOhost.
- Kurland, Philip B., and Ralph Lerner, eds. The Founders’ Constitution. University of Chicago Press, 1987. https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/.
- Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. New York, 1851. https://melville.electroniclibrary.org/moby-dick-side-by-side.
- Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Random House, 2008. Kindle.
For more details and examples, see CMOS 14.58–62.
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