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Referencing eBooks

Referencing an eBook is very similar to referencing a print book. Please see the example from Write it Right, TUS's Guide to the Harvard Referencing System:

In-text citation: Reference List item:
‘The decline of nature and people is no coincidence’ (Fogarty, 2017, p. 292).

Fogarty, P. (2017) Whittled away: Ireland’s vanishing nature. Dublin: Gill Books. Available at: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/limerickit/detail.action?docID=5529644 (Accessed: 4 September 2023). 

Author(s) name, initial(s). (year of publication) Title of eBook: subtitle [if any]. edn [if applicable]. Place of Publication: Publisher. Available at: web address (Accessed: date).
Mason (2020, p. 130) notes that ‘hydropower remains the largest and cheapest source of renewable power globally’.

Mason, M. (2020) Carbon blues: cars catastrophes and the battle for the environment. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. Available at: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=sso&db=e000xww&AN=2406446&scope=site (Accessed: 1 June 2021).

 

 Author(s) name, initial(s). (year of publication) Title of eBook: subtitle [if any]. edn [if applicable]. Place of Publication: Publisher. Available at: web address (Accessed: date).

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