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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 Three Editors

 

 

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.