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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 Three Authors

 

 

NOTES ENTRY — Book with 3 Authors

    USED FOR:

  • Citing a book written by 3 people and without an editor. This is NOT for citing a part (essay, chapter) in a book.


    BASIC COMPONENTS:

  • FIRST AUTHOR'S NAME [comma] SECOND AUTHOR'S NAME [comma] and THIRD 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. First Author's Name, Second Author's Name, and Third Author's Name, Title of Book: Which Is in Italics (City: Publisher, Year), Page Number(s).

 

    EXAMPLES:

  1. Kaj Johansson, Peter Lundberg, and Robert Ryberg, A Guide to Graphic Print Production (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2003), 311.
  2. Jodi A. Hilty, William Z. Lidicker Jr., and Adina M. Merenlender, Corridor Ecology: The Science and Practice of Linking Landscapes for Biodiversity Conservation (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006), 45-46.
  3. Heidi Furey, Scott Hill, and Sujata K. Bhatia, Beyond the Code: A Philosophical Guide to Engineering Ethics (New York: Routledge, 2022), 199-200.
  4. Amanullah De Sondy, Michelle A. Gonzalez, and William S. Green, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: An Introduction to Monotheism (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), 118.
  5. Roger Lundin, Clarence Walhout, and Anthony C. Thiselton, The Promise of Hermeneutics (Grand Rapids, MI: W. B. Eerdmans, 1999), iii.

 


 

SHORTENED NOTES ENTRY (REPEATED SOURCES) — Book with 3 Authors


    BASIC COMPONENTS:

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


    FORMATTING:

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

 

    EXAMPLES:

  1. Johansson, Lundberg, and Ryberg, Graphic Print Production, 310.
  2. Hilty, Lidicker, and Merenlender, Corridor Ecology, 46-47.
  3. Furey, Hill, and Bhatia, Beyond the Code, 102-3.
  4. De Sondy, Gonzalez, and Green, Judaism, 119.
  5. Lundin, Clarence, and Thiselton, Promise of Hermeneutics, iv.

 


 

BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRY — Book with 3 Authors


    BASIC COMPONENTS:

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


    FORMATTING:

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

 

    EXAMPLES:

Johansson, Kaj, Peter Lundberg, and Robert Ryberg. A Guide to Graphic Print Production. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2003.

Hilty, Jodi A., William Z. Lidicker Jr., and Adina M. Merenlender. Corridor Ecology: The Science and Practice of Linking Landscapes for Biodiversity Conservation. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006.

Furey, Heidi, Scott Hill, and Sujata K. Bhatia. Beyond the Code: A Philosophical Guide to Engineering Ethics. New York: Routledge, 2022.

De Sondy, Amanullah, Michelle A. Gonzalez, and William S. Green. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: An Introduction to Monotheism. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Lundin, Roger, Clarence Walhout, and Anthony C. Thiselton. The Promise of Hermeneutics. Grand Rapids, MI: W. B. Eerdmans, 1999.