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Chicago (17th ed.) Style Guide: Book Part (1 author, 1 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: 1 Author, 1 Editor

 

    USED FOR:

  • Citing a part of a book (essay, chapter, poem) written by 1 author. Book has 1 editor.


    BASIC COMPONENTS:

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


    FORMATTING:

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

 

    EXAMPLES:

  1. Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr., "Harm to the Nation from Excessive Executive Branch Secrecy," in President or King? Evaluating the Expansion of Executive Power from Abraham Lincoln to George W. Bush, ed. Meena Bose (New York: Nova Science, 2011), 146.
  2. Abigail Rine Favale, "Fate and Freedom in the Fiction of the Second Wave," in British Literature in Transition, 1960-1980: Flower Power, ed. Kate McLoughlin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), 102-3.
  3. Robert Dawidoff, "Rhetoric of Democracy," in Thomas Jefferson and the Politics of Nature, ed. Thomas S. Engeman (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000), 100-101.
  4. James Dodd, "On the Concept of Violence: Intelligibility and Risk," in Phenomenologies of Violence, ed. Michael Staudigl (Boston: Brill, 2014), 44.
  5. Rajesh Rajagopalan, "The Threat of Unintended Use of Nuclear Weapons in South Asia," in The India-Pakistan Nuclear Relationship: Theories of Deterrence and International Relations, ed. E. Sridharan (New Delhi: Routledge, 2007), 272-74.

 


 

SHORTENED NOTES ENTRY (REPEATED SOURCES) — Book Part: 1 Author, 1 Editor


    BASIC COMPONENTS:

  • AUTHOR'S LAST NAME [comma]
  • [quotation mark] SHORTENED TITLE OF CONTENT [comma] [quotation mark]
  • PAGE NUMBER(S) [period]


    FORMATTING:

  1. Author's Last Name, "Shortened Title of Content," Page Number(s).

 

    EXAMPLES:

  1. Schwarz, "Harm to the Nation," 145.
  2. Favale, "Fate and Freedom," 103-4.
  3. Dawidoff, "Rhetoric of Democracy," 99-100.
  4. Dodd, "Concept of Violence," 63.
  5. Rajagopalan, "Nuclear Weapons," 277-78.

 


 

BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRY — Book Part: 1 Author, 1 Editor


    BASIC COMPONENTS:

  • AUTHOR'S LAST NAME [comma] AUTHOR'S FIRST NAME [period].
  • [quotation mark] TITLE OF CONTENT [period] [quotation mark]
  • In TITLE OF BOOK in italics [comma]
  • edited by EDITOR'S NAME [comma]
  • FULL PAGE RANGE [period]
  • CITY OF PUBLICATION [colon]
  • PUBLISHER [comma]
  • YEAR OF PUBLICATION [period]


    FORMATTING:

Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. "Title of Content." In Title of Book: Which Is in Italics, edited by Editor's Name, Full Page Range. City: Publisher, Year.

 

    EXAMPLES:

Schwarz, Frederick A. O., Jr. "Harm to the Nation from Excessive Executive Branch Secrecy." In President or King? Evaluating the Expansion of Executive Power from Abraham Lincoln to George W. Bush, edited by Meena Bose, 143-56. New York: Nova Science, 2011.

Favale, Abigail Rine. "Fate and Freedom in the Fiction of the Second Wave." In British Literature in Transition, 1960-1980: Flower Power, edited by Kate McLoughlin, 102-16. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Dawidoff, Robert. "Rhetoric of Democracy." In Thomas Jefferson and the Politics of Nature, edited by Thomas S. Engeman, 99-122. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000.

Dodd, James. "On the Concept of Violence: Intelligibility and Risk." In Phenomenologies of Violence, edited by Michael Staudigl, 35-64. Boston: Brill, 2014.

Rajagopalan, Rajesh. "The Threat of Unintended Use of Nuclear Weapons in South Asia." In The India-Pakistan Nuclear Relationship: Theories of Deterrence and International Relations, edited by E. Sridharan, 266-86. New Delhi: Routledge, 2007.