If you are writing for a school assignment, the chances are that your teacher specified which kind of style guide to use when citing text. Two of the main style guides are APA (American Psychological Association) and MLA (Modern Language Association). If you are uncertain as to which style guide to use, APA is typically associated with business and social science and MLA with English literature. Choose the appropriate style guide.
For all style guides, you will need to collect the following information. Most of it is available in the first few pages of the e-book.
Author (last name, first name)
Title
Print version publication date, if available
Electronic publication date, if available
The date you personally accessed the information
Electronic page numbers or location numbers (or chapter information if unavailable)
Name of database (Overdrive Media) or URL.
APA Citations:
APA uses in text citations. The typical format is (Author's last name, Print Publication Date, Page number(s) in parentheses). Use location number or other identifier if a particular page number is unavailable. The citation will end up looking like:
"The Soul functioning in the finer body sees the physical body in a state of coma" (Pascal, 1910, 14).
In the bibliography, the reference would appear as:
Author. (Print version publication date). Title in italics or underlined. Print publication place: print publisher. Date accessed, from OverDrive Media.
Example:
Pascal, T. (1910). Reincarnation - a Study of Human Evolution (title in italics or underlined). London: The Theosophical Publishing Society. Retrieved February 17, 2011, from Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21533
MLA Citation:
MLA uses in text citations. The typical format is (Author, page number(s) in parentheses). Use location number or other identifier if a particular page number is unavailable. The citation will end up looking like:
"The Soul functioning in the finer body sees the physical body in a state of coma" (Pascal 14).
In the bibliography, the reference would appear as:
Author. Title in italics or underlined. Print publication place. Publisher, print publication date. Title of site or OverDrive Media in italics or underlined. Editor of site or project. Electronic publication date. Name of sponsor of site such as OverDrive Media. Date accessed. <URL in brackets>
Example:
Pascal, Theophile. Reincarnation- a Study of Human Evolution (title in italics or underlined). London. The Theosophical Publishing Society, 1910. Project Gutenberg. 19 May 2007. <http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21533>