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Paste an ISBN-10 or ISBN-13, get a formatted @book entry from Open Library data.
Enter an ISBN-10 or ISBN-13 to generate a @book BibTeX entry. Fetches metadata from Open Library (20M+ books). Useful for textbooks and monographs.
Articles have DOIs; books have ISBNs. Paste the one from the copyright page above and the converter looks it up in Open Library and returns a BibTeX @book entry — title, authors, publisher, and year — ready to paste into your .bibfile. Handy for textbooks in course notes, monographs in a thesis’ literature review, or methods handbooks in a paper.
An ISBN identifies one specific edition of a book. If your citation includes page numbers, make sure the ISBN you convert matches the copy on your desk — editions can differ in pagination and content. When in doubt, the copyright page of your copy has the right ISBN.
Both. Use the ISBN printed on the book's copyright page or back cover — modern books carry an ISBN-13 starting with 978 or 979; older ones an ISBN-10.
From Open Library, the Internet Archive's open catalog of published books. The entry includes the title, authors, publisher, and year as recorded there.
An ISBN identifies a specific edition. If you're citing a different edition than the one the ISBN belongs to, look up the ISBN of your actual copy — page numbers and even chapter structure can differ between editions.
The converter produces a @book entry. For a chapter in an edited volume, start from the @book entry and adapt it to @incollection or @inbook, adding the chapter title, editors, and page range — or use the DOI converter if the chapter has its own DOI.