If you found an ebook online (in a website) or in a library database, begin the citation just like you would for a physical book. Start with the author, title of the book (container), publisher, and the year of publication. Then add the name of the website where you found the e-book, and add the DOI if it has one. If it does not have a DOI, then add the permanent link to the ebook.
Works Cited Citation Examples: E-Book with Two Authors
Key:
Author. Title of E-book. Publisher, date. Database or website name, DOI or URL. Accessed date (if the content is likely to change).
Example:
Betton, Victoria, and James Woollard. Teen Mental Health in an Online World : Supporting Young
People Around Their Use of Social Media, Apps, Gaming, Texting and the Rest. Jessica
Kingsley Publishers, 2019. EBSCOhost, search-ebscohost-com.lasc.idm.oclc.org/login.
aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1811198&site=ehost-live.
Identify the Citation Elements from the E-Book
Author(s)
- Title of the Book/E-Book
- italicize
- title capitalization
- Publisher
- Year of publication
- Name of website or database where the ebook is located (container)
- italicize
- title capitalization
- DOI or URL
- Accessed date, if applicable (for library databases this is not needed because the ebooks are stable)
Betton, Victoria, and James Woollard. 
Teen Mental Health in an Online World : Supporting Young People Around Their Use of Social Media, Apps, Gaming, Texting and the Rest. 
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 
2019. 
EBSCOhost, 
search-ebscohost-com.lasc.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1811198&site=ehost-live.
Title Page of the E-Book
- Locate the name of the website or database where the e-book is loaded.
- Look to see if the book has a DOI number. If it does not, locate the permanent link.
If you are using a library database such as EBSCO's E-book Collection:
Click on the Cite tool
Scroll down to MLA Style
Get the Database Name and the Permanent Link from the Tool
In-Text Citation
Your sentence containing the paraphrase or "quotation" goes here followed by the in-text parenthetical citation in the body of your essay (Benton and Wollard 45).
Works Cited Citation Examples: A Chapter from an Edited E-book with Chapters Written by Different Authors
Key:
Author(s) of the chapter. "Title of the Chapter." Title of Ebook, edited by list editors, Publisher, date, chapter page range. Database or website name, DOI or URL. Accessed date (if the content is likely to change).
Example:
Leung, Louis and Renwen Zhang. “Narcissism and Social Media Use by Children and
Adolescents.” Internet Addiction in Children and Adolescents: Risk Factors,
Assessment, and Treatment, edited by Kimberly S. Young and Cristiano Nabuco
De Abreu, Springer Publishing, 2017, pp. 47-64. EBSCOhost, search-ebsco
host-com.lasc.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1526360&site=ehost-live.
Identify the Citation Elements from the E-Book
Author(s) of the chapter
- "Title of the Chapter"
- title capitalization
- in quotation marks
- Title of the Book/E-Book
- italicize
- title capitalization
- Editors
- use "edited by"
- list editors
- Publisher
- Year of publication
- chapter page range
- start with: pp.
- list page range
- Name of website or database where the ebook is located (container)
- italicize
- title capitalization
- DOI or URL
- Accessed date, if applicable (for library databases this is not needed because the ebooks are stable)
Leung, Louis and Renwen Zhang. “Narcissism and Social Media Use by Children and Adolescents.” Internet Addiction in Children and Adolescents: Risk Factors, Assessment, and Treatment, edited by Kimberly S. Young and Cristiano Nabuco De Abreu, Springer Publishing, 2017, 
pp. 47-64.
EBSCOhost, 
search-ebscohost-com.lasc.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1526360&site=ehost-live.
Individual Chapter of the E-book
Title Page for the Same Book Where the Above Chapter Appears
Citation Tool
In-Text Citation
Your sentence containing the paraphrase or "quotation" goes here followed by the in-text parenthetical citation in the body of your essay (Leung and Zhang 48).
Links & Files
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