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Unit 10: Chicago referencing - Books

Books

These pages only cover the Notes and Bibliography system for citing books. For each type of source, we give both the general form and a specific example. We use this format:

  • Full Note - use the first time that you cite a source.
  • Concise Note - use after the first time you cite a source.
  • Bibliography - use when you are compiling the Bibliography that appears at the end of your paper.

Examples in this section:

One author or editor Two or three authors or editors
More than three authors or editors Chapter or article in a multi-author book
Chapter or article in a multi-volume work Organisation as an author
No author E-book
Reference book Edition other than the first

Book with one author or editor

The general format below refers to a book with one author. If you are dealing with one editor instead of one author, insert the editor's name in the place where the author's name is now, followed by a comma and the word "ed." without the quotation marks.  The rest of the format remains the same.

General format

  • Full Note:
    1. Author First Name/Initial Surname, Book Title: Subtitle (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year), page #.
  • Concise note:
    2. Author Surname, Book Title, page #. 
  • Bibliography:
    Author Surname, First Name or Initial. Book Title: Subtitle. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year.

Example

  • Full note:
    1. Salman Rushdie, The Ground beneath Her Feet (New York: Henry Holt, 1999), 25.
  • Concise Note:
    2. Rushdie, The Ground beneath, 25.
  • Bibliography:
    Rushdie, Salman. The Ground beneath Her Feet. New York: Henry Holt, 1999.  

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Chicago citation style by Red Deer College Library, modified by Marion Kelt, GCU is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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