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Chicago Style (Author/Date)

Book by a single author

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Last Name, First Name. Year. Book Title. Place of Publication: Publisher.

Example one author:

Gladwell, Malcolm. 2000. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Boston: Little, Brown.

  • In-text paraphrase: (Gladwell 2000).
  • In-text quote: (Gladwell 2000, 48-50).

 

Book by multiple authors

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Last Name, First Name, First Name Last Name. Year. Book Title. Place of Publication: Publisher.

Example two authors:

Powell, Colin L., and Tony Koltz. 2012. It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership. New York: Harper. 

  • In-text paraphrase: (Powell and Koltz 2008).
  • In-text quote: (Powell and Koltz 2008, 101-103.

Example three authors:

Bartels, Richard H, Brian A Barsky, and John C Beatty. 2006. An Introduction to Splines for Use in Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling. San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann. 

  • In-text paraphrase: (Bartels, Barsky, and Beatty 2006).
  • In-text quote: (Bartels, Barsky, and Beatty 2006, 365-69).

Example four to 10 authors:

Zhao, Ziyang, Pu Bao, Renee Chiang, Adi Ignatius, and Roderick McFarquhar.  2009.  Prisoner of the State.  New York: Simon & Schuster.

  • In-text paraphrase: (Zhao et al. 2009).
  • In-text quote: (Zhao et al. 2009, 84-87).

Note. Only the first author's name is inverted (Last name, First name). For 10 or more authors, only list the first seven followed by et al. (CMOS 14.76).

Edited book

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Last Name, First Name, ed. Year. Book Title. Place of Publication: Publisher.

Example edited book:

Papazian, Mary A., ed. 2008. The Sacred and Profane in English Renaissance Literature. Newark: University of Delaware Press. 

  • In-text paraphrase: (Papazian, 2008).
  • In-text quote: (Papazian 2008, 15). 

 

Chapter in an edited book (different authors for each chapter)

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Last name, First name. Year. "Chapter Title." In Book Title, edited by First name Last name, page-page. Place of Publication: Publisher.

Example:

Sawhney, Mohanbir. 2005. "Branding in Technology Markets." In Kellogg on Branding: The Marketing Faculty of the Kellogg School of Management, edited by Alice M. Tybout and Tim Calkins, 187-208. Hoboken: Wiley.

  • In-text paraphrase: (Sawhney 2005).
  • In-text quote: (Sawhney 2005, 190).

 

Book by author(s) WITH an editor or translator

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Last Name, First Name. Year. Title in Italics. Translated and edited by First Name Last Name. Place of Publication: Publisher.

Example with an editor and translator:

Menchu, Rigoberta. 1999. Crossing Borders. Translated and edited by Ann Wright. New York: Verso. 

  • In-text paraphrase: (Menchu 1999).
  • In-text quote: (Menchu 1999, 196).

Example of a reprinted book:

Maitland, Frederic W. (1909) 1926. Equity, Also the Forms of Action at Common Law: Two Courses of Lectures. Edited by A. H. Chaytor and W. J. Whittaker. Reprint, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

  • In-text paraphrase: (Maitland [1909] 1926).
  • In-text quote: (Maitland [1909] 1926, 12).

 

E-book

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Last name, First name. Year. Book Title. Place of Publication: Publisher. URL/Database.

Example:

Nettle, Daniel. 2005. Happiness: The Scene Behind Your Smile. New York: Oxford University Press. ProQuest Ebook Central.

  • In-text paraphrase: (Nettle 2005).
  • In-text quote: (Nettle 2005, 122).

Note. If no fixed page numbers are available, cite a section title or a chapter or other number in the text or, if possible, track down a version with fixed page numbers.

Book with No Author

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Book Title. Year. Place of Publication: Publisher.

Example:

Extremist Groups: Information for Students. 2006. Detroit: Thomson Gale.

  • In-text paraphrase: (Extremist Groups 2006).
  • In-text quote: (Extremist Groups 2006, 155).

Note. If you cannot identify an author, list by the full title in the reference list. In the in-text citation, a short version of the title (up to four words) can be used.

iBooks @ Lynn

To cite a Lynn iBook in Chicago format, see the APA iBooks page and use the information there to follow the book format listed above.