Subject guides: Chicago 17th (A) Notes and Bibliography: Books and chapters

Books and chapters

For quotations and references to specific passages, citations include page numbers.
The edition is only included if it is not the first edition.
Non-English Names in an English Context - Naming conventions for non-English authors may differ, refer to the manual.

One author

Footnote

Format

Note number. Author Full Name, Title of Book: Subtitle, edition. (Location: Publisher, Year of publication), Page(s).

Example

1. Jeffrey Q. McCune, Sexual Discretion: Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014), 32.

Subsequent note entry

2. McCune, Sexual Discretion, 46.

Bibliography

Format

Author Surname, First Name. Title of Book: Subtitle. Edition. Location: Publisher, Year of publication.

Example

McCune, Jeffrey Q. Sexual Discretion: Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Multiple authors

Footnote

Format

Two authors

Note number. First Author Full Name and Second Author Full Name, Title of Book: Subtitle, edition (Location: Publisher, Year of publication), Page(s).

Three authors

Note number. First Author Full Name, Second Author Full Name, and Third Author Full Name, Title of Book: Subtitle, edition (Location: Publisher, Year of publication), Page(s).

Four or more authors

Note number. First Author Full Name et al., Title of Book: Subtitle, edition (Location: Publisher, Year of publication), Page(s).

Example

1. Astri Suhrke and Howard Adelman, The Path of a Genocide: The Rwanda Crisis From Uganda to Zaire (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1999), 292.

2. William Garrett-Petts, James F. Hoffman, and Ginny Ratsoy, Whose Culture Is It?: Community Engagement in Big Cities (Vancouver, BC: New Star Books, 2014), 48.

3. Edward O. Laumann et al., The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).

Subsequent note entry

3. Suhrke and Adelman, The Path of a Genocide, 308.

4. Garrett-Petts, Hoffman, and Ratsoy, Whose Culture Is It?, 48.

5. Laumann et al., The Social Organization of Sexuality.

Bibliography

Format

First Author Surname, First Name, Subsequent Author Full Names. Title of Book: Subtitle. Location: Publisher, Year of publication.

Example

Two authors

Suhrke, Astri, and Howard Adelman. The Path of a Genocide: The Rwanda Crisis From Uganda to Zaire. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1999.

Three authors

Garrett-Petts, William, James F. Hoffman, and Ginny Ratsoy. Whose Culture Is It?: Community Engagement in Big Cities. Vancouver, BC: New Star Books, 2014.

Four or more authors

Laumann, Edward O., John H. Gagnon, Robert T. Michael, and Stuart Michaels. The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Multiple authors are listed in the same order as they appear on the title page, which may not necessarily be alphabetical order.
For a book with two or more authors, only the first-listed name is inverted in the bibliography.
For books with more than ten authors, list only the first seven authors in the bibliography, followed by et al.

Organisations in the place of an author

Footnote

Format

Note number. Organisation Name, Title of Book: Subtitle, edition (Location: Publisher, Year of publication), Page(s).

Example

1. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto (Boston, MA: Little Brown and Company, 1998).

Subsequent note entry

2. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto..

Bibliography

Format

Organisation Name. Title of Book: Subtitle. Edition. Location: Publisher, Year of publication.

Example

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto. Boston, MA: Little Brown and Company, 1998.

Tips

If there is no person’s name on the title page, cite the organisation in the place of an author.

Edited books

Footnote

Format

Note number. Editor Full Name, ed., Title of Book: Subtitle, edition (Location: Publisher, Year of publication), Page(s).

Example

1. Margit Misangyi Watts, ed., Technology: Taking the Distance Out of Learning (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003).

Subsequent note entry

2. Watts, Technology.

Bibliography

Format

Editor Surname, First Name, ed. Title of Book: Subtitle. Edition. Location: Publisher, Year of publication.

Example

Watts, Margit Misangyi, ed. Technology: Taking the Distance Out of Learning. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003.

Tips

If a book is not attributed to an author on the title page, cite the editor or a translator.
Works prepared by multiple editors follow the same patterns as those prepared by multiple authors.

Chapters in edited books

Footnote

Format

Note number. Chapter Author Full Name, “Chapter Title,” in Title of Book: Subtitle, ed. Editor Full Name (Location: Publisher, Year of publication), Page(s).

Example

1. Colin Jones, “Nobles, Bourgeois and the Origins of the French Revolution,” in The French Revolution: Recent Debates and New Controversies, ed. Gary Kates (London: Routledge, 1998), 56.

Subsequent note entry

2. Jones, "Nobles, Bourgeois and the Origins of the French Revolution," 56.

Bibliography

Format

Chapter Author Surname, First Name. “Chapter Title.” In Title of Book: Subtitle. Edited by Editor Full Name, Chapter Page Range. Location: Publisher, Year of publication.

Example

Jones, Colin. “Nobles, Bourgeois and the Origins of the French Revolution.” In The French Revolution: Recent Debates and New Controversies. Edited by Gary Kates, 44-67. London: Routledge, 1998.

Tips

Often an edited book will have different authors for each chapter. In this case, you should cite the relevant chapter as well as the book as a whole.
For quotations and references to specific passages cite the page number in the footnote, but indicate the chapter's range of pages in the bibliography.

eBooks

Footnote

Format

Note number. Author’s Full Name, Title of Book: Subtitle (Location: Publisher, Year of publication), Page or Chapter Number, Application/Device/File Format/DOI/URL.

Example

1. Andres R. Edwards, Thriving Beyond Sustainability: Pathways to a Resilient Society (Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2010), chap. 2, Kindle.

2. Mark Evan Bonds, Absolute Music: The History of an Idea (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), 56, https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199343638.001.0001.

3. Karen Lystra, Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain’s Final Years (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004), chap. 2, http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt8779q6kr/.

Subsequent note entry

4. Edwards, Thriving Beyond Sustainability, chap. 2.

5. Bonds, Absolute Music, 78.

6. Lystra, Dangerous Intimacy, chap. 2.

Bibliography

Format

Author Surname, First Name. Title of Book: Subtitle. Location: Publisher, Year of publication. Application/Device/File Format/DOI/URL.

Example

Edwards, Andres R. Thriving Beyond Sustainability: Pathways to a Resilient Society. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2010. Kindle.

Bonds, Mark Evan. Absolute Music: The History of an Idea. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199343638.001.0001.

Lystra, Karen. Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain’s Final Years. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt8779q6kr/.

Tips

eBooks are referenced in the same way as print books with the addition of an application, device, file format, DOI or URL.
If allocated, the DOI is preferred over a URL. Note that a DOI should be included in the form of a URL starting with https://doi.org/.
Many eBooks do not have fixed page numbers. In this case, use other locaters such as a chapter number or a section heading.

Note number. Author Full Name, Title of Book (First Edition Location: Publisher, Year of publication; Modern Edition Location: Publisher, Year of publication), Page(s). Indicate the edition to which page numbers refer.

Example

1. F. Scott, Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (New York: Scribner, 1925; New York: Collier Books, 1992), 26. Citations refer to the 1992 edition.

Subsequent note entry

2. Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 26.

Bibliography

Format

Author Surname, First Name. Title of Book. First Edition Location: Publisher, Year of publication. Reprinted details. Modern Edition Location: Publisher, Year of publication.

Example

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Scribner, 1925. Reprinted with preface and notes by Matthew J. Bruccoli. New York: Collier Books, 1992.

Tips

This format should be used when the original year of publication is relevant, such as to emphasise the historical context of a reissued publication.

Books with an author and a translator

Footnote

Format

Note number. Author Full Name, Title of Book, trans. Translator’s Full Name (Location: Publisher, Year of publication), Page(s).

Example

1. Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, trans. Edith Grossman (London: Cape, 1988).

Subsequent note entry

2. García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera.

Bibliography

Format

Author Surname, First Name. Title of Book. Translated by Translator’s Full Name. Location: Publisher, Year of publication.

Example

García Márquez, Gabriel. Love in the Time of Cholera. Translated by Edith Grossman. London: Cape, 1988.

Exhibition catalogues

Footnote

Format

Note number. Chapter Author Full Name, “Chapter Title,” in Title of Catalogue, Institution’s Name (Location: Publisher, Year of publication), Page(s).

Note number. Title of Catalogue, ed. Editor Full Name (Location: Publisher, Year of publication), Page(s).

Example

1. Samantha Friedman, “Inner and Outer Worlds,” in MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria and The Museum of Modern Art (Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2018), 101.

2. Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman, ed. Judith A. Barter (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, with Harry N. Abrams, 1998).

Subsequent note entry

3. Friedman, "Inner and Outer Worlds," 101.

4. Mary Cassatt.

Bibliography

Format

Chapter Author Surname, First Name. “Chapter Title.” In Title of Catalogue. Institution’s Name, Chapter Page Range. Location: Publisher, Year of publication. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title, shown at Institution’s Name.

Title of Catalogue. Edited by Editor Full Name. Location: Publisher, Year of publication. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title, shown at Institution’s Name.

Example

Friedman, Samantha. “Inner and Outer Worlds.” In MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art. National Gallery of Victoria and The Museum of Modern Art, 92–115. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2018. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title, shown at the National Gallery of Victoria.

Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman. Edited by Judith A. Barter. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, with Harry N. Abrams, 1998. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title, shown at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery in Washington DC, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Tips

Reference exhibition catalogues in the same way as other published books.
Specific essays may be referenced like chapters in edited books.
If the author is unknown, exhibition catalogues may be referenced by the title.
In the bibliography entry also list the exhibition and the institution with which the publication is associated.

A source referred to in another publication

Footnote

Format

Note number. Original Source Author Full Name, Title of Book (Location: Publisher, Year of publication), Page(s), quoted in Secondary Source Author Full Name, Title of Book (Location: Publisher, Year of publication), Page(s).

Example

1. Louis Zukofsky, American Poetry (New York: Four Way Books, 1970), 166, quoted in Bonnie Costello, Marianne Moore: Imaginary Possessions (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981), 78.

Subsequent note entry

2. Zukofsky, American Poetry, quoted in Costello, Marianne Moore, 35.

Bibliography

Format

Secondary Source Author Surname, First Name. Title of Book. Location: Publisher, Year.

Example

Costello, Bonnie. Marianne Moore: Imaginary Possessions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981.

Tips

Consulting and referencing original sources is always preferable. However, if you cannot access the original source, you can use this citation format.
This example shows a book referred to in another book. Adjust the reference depending on the type of original resource.
Include only the secondary publication in the bibliography.