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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 Two Editors

 

 

NOTES ENTRY — Book with 2 Editors

    USED FOR:

  • Citing a book with 2 editors. This is NOT for citing a part (essay, chapter, poem) in a book.


    BASIC COMPONENTS:

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


    FORMATTING:

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

 

    EXAMPLES:

  1. Majid Sarrafzadeh and D. T. Lee, eds., Algorithmic Aspects of VLSI Layout (Singapore: World Scientific, 1993), iv-v.
  2. Tremper Longman III and Mark L. Strauss, eds., The Baker Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2023), 899-900.
  3. Raymond W. Gibbs Jr. and Herbert L. Colston, eds., Irony in Language and Thought: A Cognitive Science Reader (New York: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007), viii.
  4. Lawrence R. Sullivan and Nancy Liu-Sullivan, eds., Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Environment (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019), 256.
  5. Michael Clark and Olaf Thyen, eds., Compact Oxford German Dictionary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 700-701.

 


 

SHORTENED NOTES ENTRY (REPEATED SOURCES) — Book with 2 Editors


    BASIC COMPONENTS:

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


    FORMATTING:

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

 

    EXAMPLES:

  1. Sarrafzadeh and Lee, Algorithmic Aspects, v-vi.
  2. Longman and Strauss, Expository Dictionary, 897.
  3. Gibbs and Colston, Irony in Language, viii.
  4. Sullivan and Liu-Sullivan, Chinese Environment, 255.
  5. Clark and Thyen, German Dictionary, 708-9.

 


 

BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRY — Book with 2 Editors


    BASIC COMPONENTS:

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


    FORMATTING:

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

 

    EXAMPLES:

Sarrafzadeh, Majid, and D. T. Lee, eds. Algorithmic Aspects of VLSI Layout. Singapore: World Scientific, 1993.

Longman, Tremper, III, and Mark L. Strauss, eds. The Baker Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2023.

Gibbs, Raymond W., Jr., and Herbert L. Colston, eds. Irony in Language and Thought: A Cognitive Science Reader. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007

Sullivan, Lawrence R., and Nancy Liu-Sullivan, eds. Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Environment. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019.

Clark, Michael, and Olaf Thyen, eds. Compact Oxford German Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.