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Many Wikipedia articles have an
International Standard Book Number
(ISBN) alongside the
bibliographical
entry for each book. Clicking on the
linked
10- or 13-digit number links to
WP:Book sources
. This shows whether the particular book is listed in a
library
catalogue, at
WorldCat
, at
Google Books
, at major booksellers, or at other websites.
An example of a bibliographical entry as a reference or a suggestion for further reading would look like this:
- Carr, Edward Hallett (1972).
What is History?: The George Macauley Trevelyan Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge, January?March 1961
. Harmondsworth; Ringwood: Penguin Books.
ISBN
0-14-020652-3
.
The ISBN might lack hyphens between the digits, or it might contain spaces between the digits. Either way it should provide the link to
WP:Book sources
. Note that different editions of the same book may have different ISBNs. Also, books published prior to the 1970s do not have ISBNs, unless subsequently reprinted.
- Special:BookSources
is the page to which each ISBN links. It links to many sources for a book throughout the world. You can also manually enter an ISBN ? but you should click the linked ISBN to
that the link is good.
- Category:International Standard Book Number
includes all Wikipedia articles and templates directly related to ISBNs.
- Use
{{
ISBN
}}
to add an ISBN to an article, or
|isbn=
inside
{{
cite book
}}
and similar citation templates.
Wikipedia:ISBN
describes in detail how to add an ISBN to an article.