Harvard Examples - Books - Ebook

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In-text

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Reference List

Ebook with DOI or free from Internet

Template

Author. Year. Title. Edition. Publisher. http://www.xxxxxxxx.

Examples

Curran, Georgia. 2020. Sustaining Indigenous songs: Contemporary Warlpiri ceremonial life in Central Australia. Berghahn Books. http://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1k3nq82.

Melville, Herman. 1851. Moby-Dick; or, the whale. New York: Harper & Brothers. http://mel.hofstra.edu/moby-dick-the-whale-proofs.html.

Ebook from a platform or in a particular format

Template

Author. Year. Title. Edition. Publisher. Platform.

Examples

Lynn, Marvin, and Adrienne D. Dixson. 2021. Handbook of critical race theory in education. 2nd ed. Routledge. ProQuest.

Thorpe, Ann C. 2007. The designer's atlas of sustainability. Island Press. EBSCOhost.

Notes

If a URL with DOI is available from the source or its location, use that in preference to either the ordinary URL or a format or platform.

Examples of a platform, commercial format or database might include a commercial format such as Kindle, or a Library subscription database platform such as ProQuest.

Insert 'ed.' (or 'eds.' if there is more than one editor) after the editor's/editors' name/s in the reference list only. See more in the 'Author as editor' section in the button at the bottom of this page.

Edition information: leave out edition information for first editions.

For books published before 1900, include the place of publication (see button for more information).

See also: Chapter in an edited ebook.

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