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Chicago (17th ed.) Style Guide: Book Part (2 to 10 authors, 1 to 10 editors)

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: 2 to 10 Authors, 1 to 10 Editors

 

    USED FOR:

  • Citing a part of a book (essay, chapter) written by 2 to 10 authors. Book has 1 to 10 editors.


    BASIC COMPONENTS:

  • AUTHOR NAME(S)
    • 2 authors = FIRST AUTHOR'S NAME and SECOND AUTHOR'S NAME [comma]
    • 3 authors = FIRST AUTHOR'S NAME [comma] SECOND AUTHOR'S NAME [comma] and THIRD AUTHOR'S NAME [comma]
    • 4 to 10 authors = FIRST AUTHOR'S NAME et al. [comma]
  • [quotation mark] TITLE OF CONTENT [comma] [quotation mark]
  • in TITLE OF BOOK in italics [comma]
  • EDITOR NAME(S)
    • 1 editor = ed. EDITOR NAME
    • 2 editors = ed. FIRST EDITOR'S NAME and SECOND EDITOR'S NAME
    • 3 editors = ed. FIRST EDITOR'S NAME [comma] SECOND EDITOR'S NAME [comma] and THIRD EDITOR'S NAME
    • 4 to 10 editors = ed. FIRST EDITOR'S NAME [comma] SECOND EDITOR'S NAME [comma] THIRD EDITOR'S NAME [comma] [ . . . ] and LAST EDITOR'S NAME
  • [parenthesis] CITY OF PUBLICATION [colon]
  • PUBLISHER [comma]
  • YEAR OF PUBLICATION [parenthesis] [comma]
  • PAGE NUMBER(S) [period]


    FORMATTING:

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

 

    EXAMPLES:

  1. Rick A. Bevins and Christopher L. Cunningham, "Place Conditioning: A Methodological Analysis," in Tasks and Techniques: A Sampling of the Methodologies for the Investigation of Animal Learning, Behavior, and Cognition, ed. Matthew J. Anderson (New York: Nova Science, 2006), 104-5. [content written by 2 authors in a book with 1 editor]
  2. Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt, Marianne Bloch, and Aminata Maiga Soumare, "Inside Classrooms in Guinea: Girls' Experiences," in Women and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Power, Opportunities, and Constraints, ed. Marianne Bloch, Josephine A. Beoku-Betts, and B. Robert Tabachnick (Boulder, CO: L. Rienner, 1998), 100-101. [content written by 3 authors in a book with 3 editors]
  3. Jackline Oluoch-Aridi et al., "Making Dignified Care the Norm: Examining Obstetric Violence and Reproductive Justice in Kenya," in The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction, ed. Sallie Han and Cecília Tomori (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2022), 494. [content written by 4 authors in a book with 2 editors]
  4. Ronald Rockland et al., "Medical Robotics in K-12 Education," in Robots in K-12 Education: A New Technology for Learning, ed. Bradley S. Barker, Gwen Nugent, Neal Grandgenett, and Viacheslav I. Adamchuk (Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, 2012), 120-21. [content written by 5 authors in a book with 4 editors]
  5. Svetlana Smorodinsky, Tracy Barreau, and Jason Wilken, "Geothermal Venting and Emergency Preparedness—Lake County, California," in Disaster Epidemiology: Methods and Applications, ed. Jennifer A. Horney (London: Academic Press, 2018), 97. [content written by 3 authors in a book with 1 editor]

 

 

SHORTENED NOTES ENTRY (REPEATED SOURCES) — Book Part: 2 to 10 Authors, 1 to 10 Editors


    BASIC COMPONENTS:

  • AUTHOR LAST NAME(S)
    • 2 authors = FIRST AUTHOR'S LAST NAME and SECOND AUTHOR'S LAST NAME [comma]
    • 3 authors = FIRST AUTHOR'S LAST NAME [comma] SECOND AUTHOR'S LAST NAME [comma] and THIRD AUTHOR'S LAST NAME [comma]
    • 4 to 10 authors = FIRST AUTHOR'S LAST NAME et al. [comma]
  • [quotation mark] SHORTENED TITLE OF CONTENT [comma] [quotation mark]
  • PAGE NUMBER(S) [period]


    FORMATTING:

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

 

    EXAMPLES:

  1. Bevins and Cunningham, "Place Conditioning," 99-100.
  2. Anderson-Levitt, Bloch, and Soumare, "Classrooms in Guinea," 101-2.
  3. Oluoch-Aridi et al., "Dignified Care," 500.
  4. Rockland et al., "Medical Robotics," 134-35.
  5. Smorodinsky, Barreau, and Wilken, "Geothermal Venting," 96.

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRY — Book Part: 2 to 10 Authors, 1 to 10 Editors


    BASIC COMPONENTS:

  • AUTHOR NAMES
    • 2 authors = FIRST AUTHOR'S LAST NAME [comma] FIRST AUTHOR'S FIRST NAME [comma] and SECOND AUTHOR'S NAME [period]
    • 3 authors = FIRST AUTHOR'S LAST NAME [comma] FIRST AUTHOR'S FIRST NAME [comma] SECOND AUTHOR'S NAME [comma] and THIRD AUTHOR'S NAME [period]
    • 4 to 10 authors = FIRST AUTHOR'S LAST NAME [comma] FIRST AUTHOR'S FIRST NAME [comma] SECOND AUTHOR'S NAME [comma] THIRD AUTHOR'S NAME [comma] [ . . . ] and LAST AUTHOR'S NAME [period]
  • [quotation mark] TITLE OF CONTENT [period] [quotation mark]
  • In TITLE OF BOOK in italics [comma]
  • EDITOR NAME(S)
    • 1 editor = edited by EDITOR NAME [comma]
    • 2 editors = edited by FIRST EDITOR'S NAME and SECOND EDITOR'S NAME [comma]
    • 3 editors = edited by FIRST EDITOR'S NAME [comma] SECOND EDITOR'S NAME [comma] and THIRD EDITOR'S NAME [comma]
    • 4 to 10 editors = edited by FIRST EDITOR'S NAME [comma] SECOND EDITOR'S NAME [comma] THIRD EDITOR'S NAME [comma] [ . . . ] and LAST EDITOR'S NAME [comma]
  • FULL PAGE RANGE [period]
  • CITY OF PUBLICATION [colon]
  • PUBLISHER [comma]
  • YEAR OF PUBLICATION [period]


    FORMATTING:

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

 

    EXAMPLES:

Bevins, Rick A., and Christopher L. Cunningham. "Place Conditioning: A Methodological Analysis." In Tasks and Techniques: A Sampling of the Methodologies for the Investigation of Animal Learning, Behavior, and Cognition, edited by Matthew J. Anderson, 99-110. New York: Nova Science, 2006. [content written by 2 authors in a book with 1 editor]

Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn M., Marianne Bloch, and Aminata Maiga Soumare. "Inside Classrooms in Guinea: Girls' Experiences." In Women and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Power, Opportunities, and Constraints, edited by Marianne Bloch, Josephine A. Beoku-Betts, and B. Robert Tabachnick, 99-130. Boulder, CO: L. Rienner, 1998). [content written by 3 authors in a book with 3 editors]

Oluoch-Aridi, Jackline, Vania Smith-Oka, Jessica Dailey, and Ellyn Milan. "Making Dignified Care the Norm: Examining Obstetric Violence and Reproductive Justice in Kenya." In The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction, edited by Sallie Han and Cecília Tomori, 494-509. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2022. [content written by 4 authors in a book with 2 editors]

Rockland, Ronald, Howard Kimmel, John Carpinelli, Linda S. Hirsch, and Levelle Burr-Alexander. "Medical Robotics in K-12 Education." In Robots in K-12 Education: A New Technology for Learning, edited by Bradley S. Barker, Gwen Nugent, Neal Grandgenett, and Viacheslav I. Adamchuk, 120-40. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, 2012. [content written by 5 authors in a book with 4 editors]

Smorodinsky, Svetlana, Tracy Barreau, and Jason Wilken. "Geothermal Venting and Emergency Preparedness—Lake County, California." In Disaster Epidemiology: Methods and Applications, edited by Jennifer A. Horney, 96-98. London: Academic Press, 2018. [content written by 3 authors in a book with 1 editor]