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MLA 8th - Referencing Guide

E-books

Format

Standard format for citation

Author, and Author. Title of E-Book. Publisher, Year of original publication. Source.

Examples

Electronic books

Bass, Len, et al. Software Architecture in Practice. 2nd ed., Addison Wesley, 2003. Safari.

Eckes, Thomas. The Developmental Social Psychology of Gender. Lawrence Erlbaum, 2000. netLibrary.

Chapter from an electronic book

Tygstmp, Fredetik. "Changing Spaces: Salman Rushdie's Mapping of Post-Colonial Territories." Literary Landscapes: From Modernism to Postcolonialism. Edited by Attie de Lange, et al., Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp.198-213. Ebook Library.

Article from an electronic encyclopaedia

Courtright, Jeffrey L., and Peter M. Smudde. "Power and Public Relations." The International Encyclopedia of Communication. Edited by Wolfgang Donsbach, Blackwell Publishing, 2008. Blackwell Reference Online.

Article from an electronic dictionary:  No author

"Suffragettes." A Dictionary of Contemporary World History. Edited by Jan Palmowski,Oxford University Press, 2003. Oxford Reference Online.