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Chicago Style Guide


Citing Books

Basic Template for a Book:  

First Note

1. Author Firstname Lastname, Book Title: Subtitle (Publication City: Publisher, Publication date), page(s) used.

Subsequent Note

2. Author Lastname, Abbr. Book Title, page(s) used.

Bibliography

Author Lastname, Firstname. Book Title. Publication City: Publisher, Publication date.


If no author is indicated, skip that part of the citation and begin with the book title. For publication city, don't indicate the state for easily-recognized cities such as New York, Chicago, San Francisco, etc.

Examples: One or More Authors

First Note

1. Doug Fine, Farewell My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living (New York: Villard, 2008), 45.

Subsequent Note

2. Fine, Farewell My Subaru, 46.

Bibliography

Fine, Doug. Farewell My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living. New York: Villard, 2008.

First Note

3. James Bradley, Ron Powers, and Susan Spark, Flags of our Fathers (New York: Bantam, 2002), 64.

Subsequent Note

4. Bradley, Powers, and Spark, Flags of our Fathers, 65.

Bibliography

Bradley, James, Ron Powers, and Susan Spark. Flags of our Fathers. New York: Bantam, 2002.

First Note

5. Sara Borden et al., Middle School: How to Deal (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2005), 25.

Subsequent Note

6. Borden et al., Middle School, 26.

Bibliography

Borden, Sara, Sarah Miller, Alex Stikeleather, Maria Valladares, and Miriam Yelton. Middle School: How to Deal. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2005.


For notes, state the first author in the list and follow with et al. (which means "and all the others"). Be careful with the punctuation - there is no period after et! Write out all the names in the bibliography as you would for three authors.

Examples: Books with Editors

First Note

7. Leonard S. Klein, ed., Latin American Literature in the 20th Century: A Guide (New York: Ungar, 1986), 144.

Subsequent Note

8. Klein, Latin American Literature, 145.

Bibliography

Klein, Leonard S., ed. Latin American Literature in the 20th Century: A Guide. New York: Ungar, 1986.

First Note

9. Rigoberta Menchu, Crossing Borders, ed. and trans. Ann Wright (New York: Verso, 1999), 44.

Subsequent Note

10. Menchu, Crossing Borders, 45.

Bibliography

Menchu, Rigoberta. Crossing Borders. Edited and translated by Ann Wright. New York: Verso, 1999.


Spell out translated, edited etc. in bibliographies; abbreviate in notes.

Example: Chapter or Special Section of a Book; Poem in an Anthology

First Note

11. Thomas H. Huxley, “The Darwinian Hypothesis,” in Galileo’s Commandment: Great Science Writing, ed. Edmund Blair Bolles (New York: W.H. Freeman, 1997), 257-266.

Subsequent Note

12. Huxley, "Darwinian Hypothesis," 266.

Bibliography

Huxley, Thomas. "The Darwinian Hypothesis." In Galileo’s Commandment: Great Science Writing, edited by Edmund Blair Bolles, 257-266. New York: W.H. Freeman, 1997.

Example: eBooks

First Note

13. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (2011), 108, accessed October 1, 2011, Gutenberg Project.

Subsequent Note

14. Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 109.

Bibliography

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. 2011. Accessed October 1, 2011. Gutenberg Project.


Provide either the URL or the name of the database where you found the book. Ask your teacher whether an access date should be included.