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Chicago Style Guide


Citing Books

Basic Template for a Book:  

First Note

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

Subsequent Note

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

Bibliography

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

 

If no author is indicated, skip that part of the citation and begin with the book title. Place of publication for books published since 1900 is no longer required. For publication city in books published prior to 1900 include it before the Publisher followed by a colon and 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 (Villard, 2008), 45.

Subsequent Note

2. Fine, Farewell My Subaru, 46.

Bibliography

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

First Note

3. Terry Greene Sterling and Jude Joffe-Block, Driving While Brown: Sheriff Joe Arpaio Versus the Latino Resistance (University of California Press, 2021), 110.

Subsequent Note

4. Sterling and Joffe-Block, Driving While Brown, 205–6.

Bibliography

Sterling, Terry Greene, and Jude Joffe-Block. Driving While Brown: Sheriff Joe Arpaio Versus the Latino Resistance. University of California Press, 2021.


 In a note, up to two authors are listed; if more than two, only the first is listed, followed by “et al.”

First Note

5. Sara Borden et al., Middle School: How to Deal (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. 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 up to six authors in a bibliography; if more than six names, only the first three are listed, followed by “et al.” 

 

Examples: Books with Editors

First Note

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

First Note

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

Subsequent Note

10. Menchu, Crossing Borders, 45.

Bibliography

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

 

Spell out translated, edited etc. in bibliographies; abbreviate in notes. If the same person is cited as both author and editor of a work, the name is given in full for both roles. An illustrator of a children’s book or textbook can be cited similarly to an editor or translator.

 

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 (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. W.H. Freeman, 1997.

 

Note: The page range for a cited chapter in an edited book is no longer required in a bibliography.

 

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.