England Orphan Trail: Citations from Google Books

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When you want to create a citation that links to a particular page number that you need, it's not immediately obvious how to do that, and also to form the citation for a Google Books page which needs a few additions. Hopefully this page will explain. Note: This is using the "New " Google Books.

Once you've landed on the correct page in the book, you'll see that there are three vertical dots in the menu at the top. Click on that and then Share which is at the top of the list

Creating the link.

Copy the resulting link which should look like this:
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Calendar_of_State_Papers_Domestic_Series/Qw4SAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA504&printsec=frontcover

Then to fetch the citation, close the preview page of the book (the X in the top right corner). You'll see down on the left in the book details is a "Create Citation" button.

Fetching the citation 1.

In the pop up window, copy the Chicago format citation.

Fetching the citation 2.

That will look like this:
Lemon, Robert., Green, Mary Anne Everett. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reigns of Edward VI., Mary, Elizabeth, 1547-[1625]. United Kingdom: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1856.

This doesn't include the volume or page numbers, so they will need to be added, along with the link you retrieved earlier, accessed date, and some formatting (adding italics and square brackets around the link and link name):

<ref>Lemon, Robert., Green, Mary Anne Everett. ''Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reigns of Edward VI., Mary, Elizabeth, 1547-[1625].'' United Kingdom: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1856. volume 1, page 504 [https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Calendar_of_State_Papers_Domestic_Series/Qw4SAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA504&printsec=frontcover Google Books] (accessed [Insert date])</ref>

The finished citation.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Lemon, Robert., Green, Mary Anne Everett. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reigns of Edward VI., Mary, Elizabeth, 1547-[1625]. United Kingdom: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1856. volume 1, page 504 Google Books (accessed 11 February 2023)