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Chicago Manual of Style

Book with One Author or Editor (Sec. 14.75; 14.101; 14.103)

If your resource has 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.
 
General Format
 
Full Note:
            1. Author First Name Initial. Surname, Book Title: Subtitle of the Book (Place of
Publication: Publisher, Year), page #.
 
Example: 
1. Partha Chatterjee, The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global
Practice of Power (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012), 52.
2. David W. Ellwood, ed., The Movies as History: Visions of the Twentieth Century.
(Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 2000), 4.
 
Subsequent Note:
            3. Author Surname, Book Title, page #.
 
Example: 
1. Chatterjee, The Black Hole of Empire, 25.
2. Ellwood, The Movies as History, 8.
 
Bibliography:
Author Surname, First Name or Initial. Book Title: Subtitle of the Book. Place of Publication:
Publisher, Year.
 
Example: 
Chatterjee, Partha. The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012. 
 
Ellwood, David W., ed. The Movies as History: Visions of the Twentieth Century. Stroud,
Gloucestershire: Sutton, 2000.