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Chicago (17th ed.) Style Guide: Book (1 author)

An introductory guide to creating notes and bibliography entries in accordance with the 17th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style (2017).

 

 

NOTES ENTRY — Book with 1 Author

 

    USED FOR:

  • Citing a book written by 1 person and without an editor. This is NOT for citing a part (essay, chapter, poem) in a book.


    BASIC COMPONENTS:

  • AUTHOR'S NAME [comma]
  • TITLE OF BOOK in italics
  • [parenthesis] CITY OF PUBLICATION [colon]
  • PUBLISHER [comma]
  • YEAR OF PUBLICATION [parenthesis] [comma]
  • PAGE NUMBER(S) [period]


    FORMATTING:

  1. Author's Name, Title of Book: Which Is in Italics (City: Publisher, Year), Page Number(s).

 

    EXAMPLES:

  1. Shel Silverstein, Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook (New York: HarperCollins, 2005), 72.
  2. Brian M. Kane, The Blessing of Life: An Introduction to Catholic Bioethics (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011), 151-52.
  3. Rob Reid, What's Black and White and Reid All Over? Something Hilarious Happened at the Library (Chicago: American Library Association, 2012), 99.
  4. Alicia Giménez Bartlett, La Presidenta (Madrid: Alfaguara, 2022), 300-302.
  5. Adrian Furnham, Management Intelligence: Sense and Nonsense for the Successful Manager (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), x-xi.

 

 

SHORTENED NOTES ENTRY (REPEATED SOURCES) — Book with 1 Author


    BASIC COMPONENTS:

  • AUTHOR'S LAST NAME [comma]
  • SHORTENED TITLE OF BOOK in italics [comma]
  • PAGE NUMBER(S) [period]


    FORMATTING:

  1. Author's Last Name, Shortened Title of Book in Italics, Page Number(s).

 

    EXAMPLES:

  1. Silverstein, Runny Babbit, 80.
  2. Kane, Blessing of Life, 101-2.
  3. Reid, What's Black, 9-11.
  4. Giménez Bartlett, La Presidenta, 199-200. [author's last name is Giménez Bartlett]
  5. Furnham, Management Intelligence, iii.

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRY — Book with 1 Author


    BASIC COMPONENTS:

  • AUTHOR'S LAST NAME [comma] AUTHOR'S FIRST NAME [period]
  • TITLE OF BOOK in italics [period]
  • CITY OF PUBLICATION [colon]
  • PUBLISHER [comma]
  • YEAR OF PUBLICATION [period]


    FORMATTING:

Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. Title of Book: Which Is in Italics. City: Publisher, Year.

 

    EXAMPLES:

Silverstein, Shel. Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook. New York: HarperCollins, 2005.

Kane, Brian M. The Blessing of Life: An Introduction to Catholic Bioethics. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011.

Reid, Rob. What's Black and White and Reid All Over? Something Hilarious Happened at the Library. Chicago: American Library Association, 2012.

Giménez Bartlett, Alicia. La Presidenta. Madrid: Alfaguara, 2022. [author's last name is Giménez Bartlett]

Furnham, Adrian. Management Intelligence: Sense and Nonsense for the Successful Manager. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.