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How to Use Ebook Central

How to access and use the eBooks in COM Library's Ebook Central collection.

APA

To gab a citation in Ebook Central:

  1. On the book detail page, select Cite Book.
  2. The citation window will pop up and you use the pull down menu to select APA style.

Change It Tips

  1. After pasting the citation in your paper, create a hanging indent. (follow this link to see how).
  2. Make it double spaced (follow this link to see how).
  3. Change the font to Times New Roman 12.

It Should Look Like APA

Halpern, P. (2015). Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat : How Two Great Minds Battled

Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics. Boulder, US: Basic Books. 

MLA

To gab a citation from Ebook Central:

  1. On the book detail page, select Cite Book.
  2. The citation window will pop up; by default MLA is selected.

Change It Tips

  1. After pasting the citation in your paper, create a hanging indent. (follow this link to see how).
  2. Make it double spaced (follow this link to see how).
  3. Change the font to Times New Roman 12.

It Should Look Like MLA

Halpern, Paul. Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat : How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to

Create a Unified Theory of Physics, Basic Books, 2015. ProQuest Ebook Central,

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/com-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1948796.