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Chicago (17th ed.) Style Guide

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

Book With One Author

 

 

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.