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Chicago (17th ed.) Style Guide: Book (3 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 with 3 Editors

 

    USED FOR:

  • Citing a book with 3 editors. This is NOT for citing a part (essay, chapter, poem) in a book.


    BASIC COMPONENTS:

  • FIRST EDITOR'S NAME [comma] SECOND EDITOR'S NAME [comma] and THIRD 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, Second Editor's Name, and Third Editor's Name, eds., Title of Book: Which Is in Italics (City: Publisher, Year), Page Number(s).

 

    EXAMPLES:

  1. Kate Rousmaniere, Kari Dehli, and Ning de Coninck-Smith, eds., Discipline, Moral Regulation, and Schooling: A Social History (New York: Garland, 1997), 273-74.
  2. Tracy K. Betsinger, Amy B. Scott, and Anastasia Tsaliki, eds., The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange: Bioarchaeological Explorations of Atypical Burials (Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2020), xxi-xxii.
  3. Pat Bulhosen, Francesca Logi, and Loredana Riu, eds., Compact Oxford Italian Dictionary: Italian-English, English-Italian (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 820. 
  4. Frederick Adams, Osvaldo Pessoa Jr., and Joao Eduardo Kogler Jr., eds., Cognitive Science: Recent Advances and Recurring Problems (Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2017), iv.
  5. Ingrid Roscoe, Emma Hardy, and M. G. Sullivan, eds., A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009), 1344-45.

 

 

SHORTENED NOTES ENTRY (REPEATED SOURCES) — Book with 3 Editors


    BASIC COMPONENTS:

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


    FORMATTING:

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

 

    EXAMPLES:

  1. Rousmaniere, Dehli, and de Coninck-Smith, Discipline, 201-2.
  2. Betsinger, Scott, and Tsaliki, Odd, xx-xxi.
  3. Bulhosen, Logi, and Riu, Oxford Italian Dictionary, 800-801.
  4. Adams, Pessoa, and Kogler, Cognitive Science, iii.
  5. Roscoe, Hardy, and Sullivan, Sculptors in Britain, 1200-1201.

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRY — Book with 3 Editors


    BASIC COMPONENTS:

  • FIRST EDITOR'S LAST NAME [comma] FIRST EDITOR'S FIRST NAME [comma] SECOND EDITOR'S NAME [comma] and THIRD 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, Second Editor's Name, and Third Editor's Name, eds. Title of Book: Which Is in Italics. City: Publisher, Year.

 

    EXAMPLES:

Rousmaniere, Kate, Kari Dehli, and Ning de Coninck-Smith, eds. Discipline, Moral Regulation, and Schooling: A Social History. New York: Garland, 1997.

Betsinger, Tracy K., Amy B. Scott, and Anastasia Tsaliki, eds. The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange: Bioarchaeological Explorations of Atypical Burials. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2020.

Bulhosen, Pat, Francesca Logi, and Loredana Riu, eds. Compact Oxford Italian Dictionary: Italian-English, English-Italian. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Adams, Frederick, Osvaldo Pessoa Jr., and Joao Eduardo Kogler Jr., eds. Cognitive Science: Recent Advances and Recurring Problems. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2017.

Roscoe, Ingrid, Emma Hardy, and M. G. Sullivan, eds. A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.