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Chicago Style Guide

General Notes

  • Place of publication is no longer required. For books published prior to 1900, a place of publication can be included instead of the publisher.
  • The page range for a chapter in an edited book is no longer required in the bibliography.

Book 1 Author

N: Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, 128.
B: Kerouac, Jack. The Dharma Bums. Viking Press, 1958.

Book More Than One Author

N: List up to two authors by last name. If more than two, only list the first author, followed by et al.

B: List up to six authors. If more than six, only list the first three, followed by et al. Only the first author's name is inverted

 

N: Jewkes and Landfield, Joan of Arc, 105.
B: Jewkes, Wilfred T., and Jerome B. Landfield. Joan of Arc: Fact, Legend, and
           Literature
. Harcourt, Brace and World, 1964.

Book Group Author

N: University of Chicago Press, Chicago Manual, 111.
B: University of Chicago Press. The Chicago Manual of Style. 17th ed. Chicago:
           University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Textbook Part of Series

N: McKay, History of Western Society, 766-767.
B: McKay, John P., Bennett D. Hill, John Buckler, Clare Haru Crowston, Merry E.
           Wiesner-Hanks, and Joe Perry. A History of Western Society. 11th ed. Vol. 2,
           From the Age of Exploration to the Present. Bedford/St. Martin’s,
          2014.

Edited Book

N: Matthews, Celtic Seers’, 45.
B: Matthews, John, ed. The Celtic Seers’ Source Book: Visions and Magic in the
           Druid Tradition. Blandford, 1999.

Chapter or Article in an Edited Book

N: Axworthy, “Regional Development,” 251.
B: Axworthy, Lloyd. “Regional Development: Innovations in the West.” In
           Towards a Just Society: The Trudeau Years, edited by Thomas S. Axworthy
           and Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Viking, 1990.

Preface, Forward, or Introduction to a Book

N: Ray, Introduction, xvii.
B: Ray, Arthur J. Introduction to The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to
           Canadian Economic History
, by Harold A. Innis, v-xix. University
           of Toronto, 1999.

Reprint

N: Wollstonecraft, A Vindication, 49-50.
B: Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures
           on Political and Moral Subjects.
Boston,1792. Reprint, Source
           Book Press, 1971.

E-Book Accessed With E-Book Reader

N: Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chap. 24.
B: Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. 1813. Penguin Classics, 2007.
           Kindle.

E-Book Accessed Online

N: Kurland and Lerner, Founders' Constitution, chap. 10, doc. 19.
B: Kurland, Philip B., and Ralph Lerner, eds. The Founders’ Constitution.
           University of Chicago Press, 1987. http://press-
           pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/.

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