“Whodunnit?”

Ever feel booby trapped by a search engine? Imagine using an online catalog to search for a book, only your search sends you smack to page 129 of a book. You can’t see the author’s name, find the table of contents for the book, or even figure out when and where it was published. Web searches do the same thing, often landing you right in the middle of a web site. How do you find the information you need to cite the source?

http://uni.illinois.edu/library/computerlit/sourcing.php
Frances Jacobson Harris
Librarian

(APA 6th ed.) How do I cite an e-book on a device like a Kindle, Nook, or iPad?

(MLA 7th ed.) How do I cite an e-book on a device like a Kindle, Nook, or iPad?

For Chicago format,  according to Chicago Manual of Style Online 14.166 an e-book citation should end with the name of the e-reader (e.g., Kindle edition) while the footnote or endnote could follow that with the chapter title or number (e.g., chap.2), a subheading or even a unique phrase that could be found by searching (Chicago Manual Q&A section).