You can find guidance on referencing books and ebooks on pages 34-36 of the OSCOLA 5th edition under section 3.2 Books. Any resource which has an International Standard Book Number (ISBN), usually presented in this format: ISBN: 9780521876094, should be referenced as a book/ebook.
The format is:
Author, Title (Additional information, Edition, Publisher Year).
The format is the same for print books and ebooks. You do not include a web address for ebooks.
The additional information might be a supplement number, or the volume number if the book is park of a series. Most references for books do not include any information here.
With the edition number, if it is the first edition or there are not multiple editions then you do not include any information here.
If there are 4 or more authors then you give the first named one followed by ‘and others’.
Pinpointing:
Any pinpoints would go at the end of the footnote reference. For page numbers you simply write the number. If it is a paragraph number you would put para before the number: para 3.2. To pinpoint a chapter you would put ch before the number: ch 11. Pinpoints would not be included in the Bibliography.
Examples of a footnote reference:
Leigh Sagar and Jack Burroughs, The Digital Estate (2nd edn, Sweet & Maxwell 2022).
Timothy Endicott, Administrative Law (OUP 2009) 112.
Gareth Jones, Goff and Jones: The Law of Restitution (1st supp, 7th edn, Sweet & Maxwell 2009) ch 3.
Example of a Bibliography reference:
Sagar L and Burroughs J, The Digital Estate (2nd edn, Sweet & Maxwell 2022).
For named authors, in the Bibliography you put surname then their initial. The rest of the reference is exactly the same as the footnote, removing any pinpoints.
