Referencing Taylor & Francis E-books
For ākonga/students using APA 7th Referencing (Most students at Unitec)
When you first access the home page of a Taylor & Francis E-book, this icon appears:
Clicking on that will give you a reference for the e-book in APA 7th format. However, the reference may not be 100% correct.
IMPORTANT: Always double-check the Taylor & Francis-generated refrence with the example on the Unitec APA 7th referencing guide to check it is correct.
(For example: 'libproxy.unitec.ac.nz' should not appear in APA references)
For ākonga/students using Chicago 17th Referencing (Architecture students)
Use the Chicago 17th referencing guide to correctly cite this e-book. (See Referencing Books => Electronic books section
Using Taylor & Francis E-Books
1. In the library catalogue record, look for the View Online section and click on the link beside 'Full-Text available at:'
2. Log-in with your Unitec user name and password. NOTE: Your user name here is your short user name (e.g. bloggj01 (students) or jbloggs (staff)).
3. The e-book home page should open.
4. Taylor & Francis e-books offer a couple of ways to read online and download. IMPORTANT: Taylor & Francis e-books can be a bit slow. Please be patient.
Reading Online
(a) Reading the whole e-book
- From the home screen of the e-book, click the button to open the whole e-book in EPUB format.
(b) Reading a chapter of the e-book
- From the home screen of the e-book, scroll down to the chapters. Click on a chapter title to open the screen for that chapter. Then click the button to open that chapter of the e-book in PDF format.
Downloading
(a) Download the whole e-book
- From the home screen of the e-book, click the menu to download the whole e-book into EPUB or PDF format (be patient, this can take a while).
(b) Download a chapter of the e-book
- On the home screen of the e-book, scroll down to the chapters. Click the button beside the chapter you want. A PDF version of that chapter will download.
(c) Downloading after you have started reading the book online
OR While reading a chapter, click the button at the top of the page and select PDF to download that chapter to PDF format.
5. At the top of the screen of an e-book are several useful features:
- You can zoom in and out and change how the e-book fits on your computer screen
- Have the text read out to you.
You can change the e-book to PDF format (be patient, it takes a little while!)
In an EPUB version of the e-book, you can change the font size, alignment and direction of reading. (Only the direction of reading can be changed in PDF format)
6. In the menu on the left of an e-book are more useful buttons:
Search for a keyword and you will be shown where that keyword appears in the e-book text.
Access the table of contents of the e-book.
Print a selection of pages of the e-book, a chapter or even the whole e-book.
Printing & Copying parts of Taylor & Francis E-Books
For print books, you can photocopy the pages you like the look of. For e-books, the alternative is to print, save or copy the parts of the e-books that you need.
Taylor & Francis e-books have no limit on the number of pages you can print, download, save etc.
Printing
To print some pages of the e-book or the whole e-book, use the icon in the menu on the left-hand side of the e-book.
Copying
To copy some of the text in an e-book, highlight the section you want to copy with your mouse. A pop-up screen will then appear.
Choose or
. The text will download to your clipboard.