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Please note! The format of citations vary considerably between databases. All these characteristics may not be present in one citation. If a citation contains two or more of these characteristics, it's probably a book citation.

1 - ISBN is the abbreviation for International Standard Book Number. Always an excellent clue that the citation is for a book.
2 - Look for only one number (e.g., 271 p.) as opposed to a range of page numbers (e.g., 183-195) which would refer to a journal article.
3 - Look for information about the publisher of the book.
4 - "Monograph" is a fancy word for book
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