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Chicago Manual of Style

Edition of a Book Other than the First (Sec 14.113)

Second edition = 2nd ed.
Third edition = 3rd ed.
Fourth edition = 4th ed.
Revised edition = rev. ed. (Note) or Rev. ed. (Bibliography)
 
General Format 
 
Full Note: 
1. Author First Name/Initial Surname, Book Title: Subtitle of the Book, edition (Place of
Publication: Publisher, Year), page #.
 
Example:
            1. James S. Frideres, René R. Gadacz, and James Frideres, Aboriginal 
Peoples in Canada, 8th ed. (Toronto, ON: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008), 85.
 
Subsequent Note: 
2. Author Surname, Book Title, page #. 
 
Example:
2. Frideres, Gadacz, and Frideres, Aboriginal Peoples in Canada,  85.
 
Bibliography:
Author Surname, First Name or Initial. Book Title: Subtitle of the Book. Edition. Place of
Publication: Publisher, Year.
 
Example:
Frideres, James S., René R. Gadacz, and James Frideres. Aboriginal Peoples in Canada.
8th ed. Toronto, ON: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008.

Reprint Editions (Sec 14.114)

General Format 
 
Full Note: 
            1. Author First Name/Initial Surname, Book Title: Subtitle, edition (Original Place of
      Publication: Original Publisher, Original Year; Reprint Place of Publication: Reprint Publisher, 
      Reprint Year), page #. Citations refer to the Reprint Publisher edition.
 
Example:
 
            1. George Curzon, Russia in Central Asia in 1889 and the Anglo-Russian Question. (London:
Longmans, Green & Co., 1889; New York: Barnes and Noble, 1967), 230. Citations refer to the Barnes
and Noble edition.
 
Subsequent Note: 
            2. Author Surname, Book Title, page #. 
 
Example:
 
            2. Curzon, Russia in Central Asia, 316-317.
 
Bibliography:
      Author Surname, First Name or Initial. Book Title: Subtitle. Edition. Original Place of
            Publication: Original Publisher, Original Year. Reprint, Place of Publication: 
            Reprint Publisher, Reprint Year. 
 
Example:
 
      Curzon, George. Russia in Central Asia in 1889 and the Anglo-Russian Question. London:
     Longmans, Green & Co., 1889. Reprint, New York: Barnes and Noble, 1967.