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Last edited by @john_gilmore
May 6, 2024 | History

How do you cite an online book?

APA style

Bromley, H. (1986). Lisp Lore: A guide to Programming the Lisp Machine. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

MLA style

Bromley, Hank. Lisp Lore: A guide to Programming the Lisp Machine. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1986.

MLA style for online books

from http://www.library.cornell.edu/newhelp/res_strategy/citing/mla.html#online_book

Frost, Robert. North of Boston.1915.Project Bartleby. Ed. Steven van Leeuwen.1999. 29 October 1999 <http://www.bartleby.com/118/index.html>.

How would you cite a book on the Internet Archive?

Bromley, Hank. Lisp Lore: A guide to Programming the Lisp Machine.1986.Internet Archive. Ed. Brewster Kahle. 2008. 30 October 2008. <http://www.archive.org/details/lisploreguidetop00brom>.

Is this correct? Is Brewster supposed to be listed in the citation?

How to cite a book that's in the Internet Archive, in a Wikipedia article

Here is an example:

<ref>{{cite book
|last = De Haes Janvier
|first = Francis
|author-link=Francis De Haes Janvier
|title = The Sleeping Sentinel
|publisher = T.B. Peterson & Brothers
|year = 1863
|location = Philadelphia
|pages = 19
|url=https://archive.org/details/sleepingsentin3344janv/page/n3
}}</ref>

The URL should end with /page/SOMETHING where SOMETHING leads the viewer to the main title page of the book (e.g. /page/n3 in the above example). If there is a page= value in the citation, then instead taking people to the main title page, use that page of the book in the URL.

If the book is not publicly viewable, but instead requires logging in to an Internet Archive account to borrow it briefly, then also include this tag after the url= tag:

|url-access=registration

This will cause a dotted padlock icon to be added to the citation.

History

May 6, 2024 Edited by @john_gilmore Note how to mark only-borrowable books.
May 6, 2024 Edited by @john_gilmore See if & l t ; can avoid this page eating up the example ref tag.
May 6, 2024 Edited by @john_gilmore Add how to make a Wikipedia citation to an Archive-scanned book.
December 19, 2008 Edited by raj Edited without comment.
December 19, 2008 Created by raj first checkin.