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Chicago (17th ed.) Style Guide: Book Part (3 authors, no editor)

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 Part: 3 Authors, No Editor

 

    USED FOR:

  • Citing a part of a book (essay, chapter) written by 3 authors. This is NOT for books with an editor(s).


    BASIC COMPONENTS:

  • FIRST AUTHOR'S NAME [comma] SECOND AUTHOR'S NAME [comma] and THIRD AUTHOR'S NAME [comma]
  • [quotation mark] TITLE OF CONTENT [comma] [quotation mark]
  • in 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 Content," in Title of Book: Which Is in Italics (City: Publisher, Year), Page Number(s).

 

    EXAMPLES:

  1. Gerald R. Gems, Linda J. Borish, and Gertrud Pfister, "Globalized Sport, 1980-2007," in Sports in American History: From Colonization to Globalization (Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2008), 305-6.
  2. Amanullah De Sondy, Michelle A. Gonzalez, and William S. Green, "Contemporary Monotheism," in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: An Introduction to Monotheism (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), 214.
  3. John Paul Wright, Stephen G. Tibbetts, and Leah E. Daigle, "Prepubescence: Infancy and Childhood," in Criminals in the Making: Criminality across the Life Course (Los Angeles: SAGE, 2008), 209-11.
  4. Dwight M. Gunter II, James R. Couchenour, and E. LeBron Fairbanks, "Take Time," in Best Practices for Effective Boards (Kansas City, MO: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 2012), 100-101.
  5. Barry S. Godfrey, David J. Cox, and Stephen D. Farrall, "Serious Offenders and the Legislation that 'Produced' Them," in Serious Offenders: A Historical Study of Habitual Criminals (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 60.

 

 

SHORTENED NOTES ENTRY (REPEATED SOURCES) — Book Part: 3 Authors, No Editor


    BASIC COMPONENTS:

  • FIRST AUTHOR'S LAST NAME [comma] SECOND AUTHOR'S LAST NAME [comma] and THIRD AUTHOR'S LAST NAME [comma]
  • [quotation mark] SHORTENED TITLE OF CONTENT [comma] [quotation mark]
  • 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 Content," Page Number(s).

 

    EXAMPLES:

  1. Gems, Borish, and Pfister, "Globalized Sport," 307-8.
  2. De Sondy, Gonzalez, and Green, "Contemporary Monotheism," 210.
  3. Wright, Tibbetts, and Daigle, "Prepubescence," 200-201.
  4. Gunter, Couchenour, and Fairbanks, "Take Time," 98-99.
  5. Godfrey, Cox, and Farrall, "Serious Offenders," 64.

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRY — Book Part: 3 Authors, No Editor


    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]
  • [quotation mark] TITLE OF CONTENT [period] [quotation mark]
  • In TITLE OF BOOK in italics [comma]
  • FULL PAGE RANGE [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 Content." In Title of Book: Which Is in Italics, Full Page Range. City: Publisher, Year.

 

    EXAMPLES:

Gems, Gerald R., Linda J. Borish, and Gertrud Pfister, "Globalized Sport, 1980-2007." In Sports in American History: From Colonization to Globalization, 305-44. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2008.

De Sondy, Amanullah, Michelle A. Gonzalez, and William S. Green. "Contemporary Monotheism." In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: An Introduction to Monotheism, 209-32. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Wright, John Paul, Stephen G. Tibbetts, and Leah E. Daigle. "Prepubescence: Infancy and Childhood." In Criminals in the Making: Criminality across the Life Course, 195-228. Los Angeles: SAGE, 2008.

Gunter, Dwight M., II, James R. Couchenour, and E. LeBron Fairbanks. "Take Time." In Best Practices for Effective Boards, 92-101. Kansas City, MO: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 2012.

Godfrey, Barry S., David J. Cox, and Stephen D. Farrall. "Serious Offenders and the Legislation that 'Produced' Them." In Serious Offenders: A Historical Study of Habitual Criminals, 49-84. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.