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Chicago Manual of Style

Book with Two or Three Authors or Editors (Sec. 14.76)

If your work has two editors instead of two authors, insert the names of the editors into the place where the authors' names are now, followed by a comma and the word "eds." without the quotation marks.

General Format 
 
Full Note: 
1. Author First Name/Initial Surname and Author First Name/Initial Surname, Book Title:
Subtitle of the Book (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year), page #.
Example: 
1. W.F. Garrett-Petts, James F. Hoffman, and Ginny Ratsoy, eds., Whose Culture Is It, Anyway?:
Community Engagement in Small Cities (Vancouver, BC: New Star Books, 2014), 48.
 
Subsequent Note: 
2. Author Surname and Author Surname, Book Title, page #. 
 
Example:  
2. Garrett-Petts, Hoffman, and Ratsoy, eds., Whose Culture Is It, Anyway?, 48.
 
Bibliography:
Author Surname, First Name Initial, and Author First Name Initial Surname. Book Title: 
Subtitle of the Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year.
 
Example:  
​Garrett-Petts, W.F., James F. Hoffman, and Ginny Ratsoy, eds. Whose Culture Is It,
            Anyway?: Community Engagement in Small Cities. 
Vancouver, BC:
            New Star Books, 2014.