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Engineering Guide: Books/Ebooks

Electronic Books

Standard Formats for an Electronic Book Citation

[#]           A. Author, Title of Book. City of Publisher, Country: Abbreviated Publisher, year. [Format]. doi: #####.

[#]           A. Author, Title of Book. City of Publisher, Country: Abbreviated Publisher, year. [Format]. Available: URL

[#]           A. Author, "Title of chapter", in Title of Book, E. Editor, Ed., City of Publisher, Country: Abbreviated Publisher, year, pp. ##-##. Accessed: Abbreviated month Day, Year. [Format]. Available: URL

Use DOI or URL depending on what is available. Date accessed is optional, but recommended where information might change over time.

Note that the title of a book uses title case (the first letter of every major word is capitalised), while chapter titles use sentence case (capitalise only the words you would capitalise in a sentence: the first word of the title or subtitle, and proper nouns like names).

The IEEE Reference Guide contains a list of common abbreviations for publishers.

If the book was published in the US, include the two-letter abbreviation of the state between the city and country.

 

Ebook (accessed from online database)

[1]           M. Reis, Fundamentals of Magnetism. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier, 2013. Accessed: Jan. 18, 2019. [Online]. Available: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com

[2]           R. Hammerman and A. L. Russell, Eds., Ada's Legacy: Cultures of Computing from the Victorian to the Digital Age. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery and Morgan & Claypool, 2015. [Online]. Available: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2809523

Ebook (with DOI)

[3]           B. Dieny, R. B. Goldfarb, and K. Lee, Basic Spintronic Transport Phenomena. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley-IEEE Press, 2017. [Online]. doi: 10.1002/9781119079415.ch1.

Chapter from an Ebook

[4]           D. J. Hannapel, “The effect of long-distance signaling on development,” in Phloem: Molecular Cell Biology, Systemic Communication, Biotic Interactions, G. A. Thompson and A. J. E. van Bel, Eds., Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley, 2012, pp. 209-226. Accessed: Jul. 9, 2019. [Online]. Available: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com

Print Books

Standard Formats for a Book Citation

[#]           A. Author, Title of Book. City of Publisher, Country: Abbreviated Publisher, year.

[#]           A. Author, "Title of chapter", in Title of Book, E. Editor, Ed., City of Publisher, Country: Abbreviated Publisher, year, pp. ##-##.

Note that the title of a book uses title case (the first letter of every major word is capitalised), while chapter titles use sentence case (capitalise only the words you would capitalise in a sentence: the first word of the title or subtitle, and proper nouns like names).

The IEEE Reference Guide contains a list of common abbreviations for publishers.

If the book was published in the US, include the two-letter abbreviation of the state between the city and country.

 

Print Book

[5]           M. A. Salam, Fundamentals of Electrical Machines. Oxford, U.K.: Alpha Science, 2005.

Chapter from a Print Book

[4]           D. J. Hannapel, “The effect of long-distance signaling on development,” in Phloem: Molecular Cell Biology, Systemic Communication, Biotic Interactions, G. A. Thompson and A. J. E. van Bel, Eds., Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley, 2012, pp. 209-226.