If publication originates from America: Author(s) First name or initials. Surname, or name of organisation, Title of book (in italics) followed by fullstop if no edition statement, or comma if there is an edition statement, ed., Edition (except the first). Place of publication City: Publisher, Year of Publication.

If publication originates from rest of world:
Author(s) First name or initials. Surname, or name of organisation, Title of book (in italics) followed by fullstop if no edition statement, or comma if there is an edition statement, ed., Edition (except the first). Place of publication City, Place of publication Country unless the City is considered "well known": Publisher, Year of Publication.

In addition, to the above citation details, provide page numbers if you have quoted specific facts or materials e.g. pp. 28-30.

(Differences are highlighted.)

Examples

Book originating from America

Note: this example omits Country as the book was published in America.  It has page numbers included as the authors of the article that cited this book particularly used pages five to eight and not the rest of the publication.

Note: The country is not needed in the place of publication, if the City is well known, for example: Paris, New York, or Rome.

Citation Elements

Author(s) First name or initials. Surname, “Title of chapter in the book,” in Title of The Book in italics and title case, Editor(s) First name or initials. Surname, [Ed., or Eds.,] xth ed. [edition] City of Publisher, Country of Pubisher if not published in US: Name of Publisher, Year of publication, ch. x, [chapter number] sec. x, [section number] pp.xxx–xxx [page range]

Examples

Authored book chapter

Edited book chapter

Author(s) First name or initials. Surname, “Title of chapter in the book,” in Title of The Book in italics and title case, vol. xxx, [volume number of series] Title of Book Series in Title Case, Editor(s) First name or initials. Surname,  xth ed. [edition] City of Publisher, Country of Pubisher if not published in US: Name of Publisher, Year of publication, ch. x, [chapter number] sec. x, [section number] pp.xxx–xxx [page range]

Book chapter, where book is part of a series

This example has a volume number and series title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

Author(s) First name or initials. Surname, or name of organisation, Title of book (in italics) followed by fullstop if no edition statement, or comma if there is an edition statement, ed., Edition (except the first). Place of publication City, Place of publication Country unless the City is considered "well known": Publisher, Year of Publication. doi: xxxxxxxxx

Note: exclude Country if work orginates from US, or if City is considered "well known".

Examples

E-book with DOI

Where you have both a URL and a DOI, use the DOI. "The basic guideline for citing online sources is to follow the standard citation for the source given previously and add the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) at the end of the citation, or add the DOI in place of page numbers if the source is not paginated."  See p.3 IEEE Citation Reference.   

Author(s) First name or initials. Surname. (date of publication year, month day). Title (in italics). (ed. edition except the first) [Type of medium]. Available: site/path/file

Examples

E-book with a URL and no DOI

The style for an ebook with URL does not require publisher details.  Only use this style if your ebook does not have a DOI.

E-book with a URL from a ebook database subscribed by Monash University Library

The above title's full URL is http://www.crcnetbase.com.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/ISBN/9780203499986.  In most instances it would be reasonable to shorten the URL to www.whatever.com which will usually be the provider of the e-book.  In this case the URL would be http://www.crcnetbase.com.  Alternatively, if it is a reasonable length URL remove the "ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au" portion from the URL.  This part of the URL is an efficient authentication service for members of Monash University.