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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 Editor

 

 

NOTES ENTRY — Book with 1 Editor

    USED FOR:

  • Citing a book with 1 editor. This is NOT for citing a part (essay, chapter, poem) in a book.


    BASIC COMPONENTS:

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


    FORMATTING:

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

 

    EXAMPLES:

  1. Arthur Wentworth Eaton, ed., Funny Epitaphs (Boston: Mutual Book, 1902), 69.
  2. Enrique García Santo-Tomás, ed., Science on Stage in Early Modern Spain (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019), vii.
  3. Arthur E. Hull, ed., A Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians (London: J. M. Dent, 1924), 500-501.
  4. Lisa Russ Spaar, ed., More Truly and More Strange: 100 Contemporary American Self-Portrait Poems (New York: Persea, 2020), xix-xx.
  5. Yacine Belhaj-Bouabdallah, ed., Saving Ourselves: Interviews with World Leaders on the Sustainable Transition (Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific, 2017), 197-98.

 

 

SHORTENED NOTES ENTRY (REPEATED SOURCES) — Book with 1 Editor


    BASIC COMPONENTS:

  • EDITOR'S LAST NAME [comma]
  • SHORTENED TITLE OF BOOK in italics [comma]
  • PAGE NUMBER(S) [period]


    FORMATTING:

  1. Editor's Last Name, Shortened Title of Book in Italics, Page Number(s).

 

    EXAMPLES:

  1. Eaton, Funny Epitaphs, 70.
  2. García Santo-Tomás, Science on Stage, vi. [author's last name is García Santo-Tomás]
  3. Hull, Modern Music and Musicians, 493-94.
  4. Spaar, More Truly, xxi.
  5. Belhaj-Bouabdallah, Saving Ourselves, 203-4.

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRY — Book with 1 Editor


    BASIC COMPONENTS:

  • EDITOR'S LAST NAME [comma] EDITOR'S FIRST NAME [comma] ed.
  • TITLE OF BOOK in italics [period]
  • CITY OF PUBLICATION [colon]
  • PUBLISHER [comma]
  • YEAR OF PUBLICATION [period]


    FORMATTING:

Editor's Last Name, Editor's First Name, ed. Title of Book: Which Is in Italics. City: Publisher, Year.

 

    EXAMPLES:

Eaton, Arthur Wentworth, ed. Funny Epitaphs. Boston: Mutual Book, 1902.

García Santo-Tomás, Enrique, ed. Science on Stage in Early Modern Spain. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. [author's last name is García Santo-Tomás]

Hull, Arthur E., ed. A Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians. London: J. M. Dent, 1924.

Spaar, Lisa Russ, ed. More Truly and More Strange: 100 Contemporary American Self-Portrait Poems. New York: Persea, 2020.

Belhaj-Bouabdallah, Yacine, ed. Saving Ourselves: Interviews with World Leaders on the Sustainable Transition. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific, 2017.