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Chicago (17th ed.) Style Guide: Book (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 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.