If you are just giving your students advice, and there is no information available on any of your guides' websites, RSS feeds, etc., then you can either make your own rules (it is your class!) or have your students think about what is important and necessary in order to be able to find that particular resource again. In this educational guide, you will go through the basic steps of citing an e-book, as well as dive into similarities.
#How to cite an ebook how to#
If you are the professor and you are still in doubt, then contact the publication to which you are submitting your paper. Learning how to cite an e-book is a lot less complicated than most people think, and with the new changes made to the 7th Edition of the Publication manual of the American Psychological Association, it has become even easier. Check with your citation guide's publications (books, websites, newsletters, blogs) to find out what's being said about e-Readers as some of them may have informally published guidelines to follow while others may offer suggestions. For citing books in MLA format, the author names, the editor names (if it is an edited book), publisher name (city of publication is not required), edition, and published year details are needed. In text, use a few words of the title, or the whole title if it is short, in place of an author name in the citation: ( Merriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary, 2005). An e-book, on the other hand, is published online in multiple formats, e.g., epub, Kindle, and Nook. What is common to all citation formats is that the goal remains the same: have enough information so someone else can find it. Alphabetize books with no author or editor by the first significant word in the title ( Merriam in this case). The trouble is that in electronic formats, there are no fixed pages." (Tushar Rae, "E-Books' Varied Formats Make Citations a Mess for Scholars: Kindle, Nook, and other devices put the same text on different pages," Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb. "As e-reading devices gain popularity, professors and students are struggling to adapt them to an academic fundamental: proper citations, which other scholars can use. There is still some confusion regarding how to cite eBook Readers.
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