Chicago Style: Books (Electronic)
Citation Examples
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Downloaded E-Book
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#. Author, Book Title (Publisher location: Publisher, Year), format information, location information.
1. Henry James, Washington Square (New York: Signet Classic, 2004), Fictionwise e-book, chapter 10.
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#. Author last name, Shortened book title, location information.
1. James, Washington Square, chapter 10.
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Author name inverted. Book Title. Publisher location: Publisher name, Year. Format information. James, Henry. Washington Square. New York: Signet, 2004. Fictionwise e-book.
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E-Book Accessed and Read Online
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#. Author(s), Book Title, trans./ed. Translator or Editor Name (Publisher location: Publisher, Year), page number(s).
1. Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double: a Poem of St. Petersburg, trans. George Bird (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1958), 199.
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#. Author last name, Shortened book title, page number or range.
1. Dostoevsky, The Double, 199.
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Author name inverted. Book Title. Translated /Edited by Translator/Editor Name. Publisher location: Publisher name, Year.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Double: a Poem of St. Petersburg. Translated by George Bird. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 1958.
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A Chapter in an Edited Book
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#. Chapter author, "Chapter title," in Book Title, ed. Editor Name (Publisher location: Publisher, Year), page number(s).
1. Dorothy Kelly, "Writing Difference Itself," in Literature as Philosophy/Philosophy as Literature, ed. Donald G. Marshall (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1987), 240.
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#. Chapter author last name, "Chapter title," page number(s).
1. Kelly, "Writing Difference Itself," 240.
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Chapter author name inverted. "Chapter title." In Book Title, edited by Editor name. page range. Publisher location:
Publisher name, Year.
Kelly, Dorothy. "Writing Difference Itself." In Literature as Philosophy/Philosophy as Literature, edited by Donald G. Marshall,
240-250. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1987.
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