Hi, I'm not sure whether this is the right place for this, so please let me know if this is inappropriate, and where it would be better located. Basically, I'm writing an essay for university on human nature, and I'm trying to source Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan. I'm using the version of Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3207/3207-h/3207-h.htm
Now, I know that there are plenty of style manuals online, but I've been looking, and none really discuss how to source classic texts that are found online. There's plenty on how to source a republished hardcopy classic, and how to source an original work on a website, but nothing regarding how to source the likes of Gutenberg. My assumption is as follows:
Hobbes, T 2009. The Leviathan, Project Gutenberg, Urbana, Illinois, viewed 27 April 2018, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3207/3207-h/3207-h.htm
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Is this correct?
Edit: I should probably state that it's a straight text file. It's not a direct scan.
Edit 2: If it's not too presumptious to ask, how would I cite a book with no publisher? I've found online a copy of a 1768 anthology of Locke's works, but it doesn't actually have a publisher as we might recognise it. How could I use that?
That 1768 Locke, assuming it's the same one kicking around on Google Books, has had its publisher cited elsewhere as "H. Woodfall", "H. Woodfall et al" or "H. Woodfall, A Millar, J. Beecroft, J. and F. Rivington, et multis aliis." (Google 1768 Locke Woodfall and you'll see these examples.) I would let the 'et al' kick in at whatever point your university's guide does for multiple authors. (Harvard is a pain like that, it varies between institutions rather than having a centralised authority. This guide from Imperial uses 'et al' after four. Several guides I checked didn't mention the situation, as large numbers of authors are more commonly found with medicine and psychology, which often use other referencing styles.)
Gutenberg publishes its own guide to referencing here. You seem to be using its information already.
University departments can and do have idiosyncratic house referencing styles. (For no good reason I've ever understood. Can anyone who's taught elaborate?) Especially if you've got a few days before this essay is due, ask a tutor. This will not be the first time someone has used a Project Gutenberg edition. They may even remember a student using that old edition of Locke too. (If it's due tomorrow morning, though, I see why you're asking on the internet.)