THE ALMY LIBRARY
GUIDE TO CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE CITATIONS
models for citing a Chapter of an ebook in a database
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Footnote
1 Firstname Lastname, "Title of Chapter," in Title of Book (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication), page number, Name of Database,
Accessed Date, URL.
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Bibliography
Lastname, Firstname. "Title of Chapter." In Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Name of Database. Accessed Date.
URL.
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Note
When citing a chapter or similar part of an edited book, include the chapter author; the chapter title, in quotation marks; and the editor. Precede the title of the book with “in.” Additionally, if you are listing a "Type of Media" (this would be an ebook reader, like a Kindle), you do not need an access date or URL.
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examples for a citing a chapter of an ebook accessed in a database
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Footnote
1 Jeremy D. Popkin, "The Uprisings, 1791-1793," in A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2011), ProQuest Ebook Central, accessed on January 13, 2021, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bbnslibrary/detail.action?docID=822651.
2 Popkin, "The Uprisings," 36.
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Bibliography
Popkin, Jeremy D. "The Uprisings, 1791-1793." In A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2011.
ProQuest Ebook Central. Accessed January 13, 2021. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bbnslibrary/detail.action?docID=822651.
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