Help:ISBN
Many Wikipedia articles have an International Standard Book Number (ISBN) alongside the International Standard Book Number entry for each book. Clicking on the International Standard Book Number 10- or 13-digit number allows readers to automatically check to see if that particular book is available in a International Standard Book Number catalogue, at WorldCat, at WorldCat, at major booksellers, or at other websites throughout the world.
An example of a bibliographical entry as a reference or a suggestion for further reading would look like this.
The ISBN might lack dashes between the digits, or it might contain spaces between the digits, but it still provides the link. Note that different editions of the same book may have different ISBNs and books published prior to the 1970s do not have ISBNs, unless subsequently reprinted.
See also
- is the page to which each ISBN links. It links to many sources for a book throughout the world. You can also manually enter an ISBN.
- includes all Wikipedia articles and templates directly related to ISBNs.
- Use to add an ISBN to an article, or inside and similar citation templates describes in detail how to add an ISBN to an article.
External links
- International ISBN Agency—coordinates and supervises the worldwide use of the ISBN system.
- Free conversion tool: ISBN-10 to ISBN-13 & ISBN-13 to ISBN-10 from the ISBN agency. Also shows correct hyphenation & verifies if an ISBN is valid or not.