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Chicago Manual of Style

Chapter or Article in a Multi-Volume Work (Sec. 14.18-14.23)

Note:

  • The page range for a chapter in a book is no longer required in bibliography entries. In a note, cite specific pages as applicable (See 14.8)
  • A place of publication is no longer required in book citations for books published after 1900 (see 14.31)
General Format 
 
Full Note: 

1. Author First Name/Initial Surname, "Title of Chapter or Article," in Book Title: Subtitle of the Book (Publisher, Year), Volume #:page #.

2. Author First Name/Initial Surname, "Title of Chapter or Article," in Book Title: Subtitle of the Book (Place of Publication if before 1900, Year), Volume #:page #.

 
Example

1. David Holloway, “Nuclear Weapons and the Escalation of the Cold War, 1945–1962,” in The Cambridge History of the Cold War, ed. Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad (Cambridge University Press, 2010), 1:388.

 
Subsequent Note: 

2. Author Surname, "Title of Chapter or Article," Volume #:page #.

 
Example:

2. Holloway, "Nuclear Weapons," 1:392.

 
Bibliography:

Author Surname, First Name. "Title of Chapter or Article." In Volume Title: Subtitle of the Book, edited by Editor First Name Surname, Vol. volume # of Title of Multivolume Book. Publisher, Year.

Author Surname, First Name. "Title of Chapter or Article." In Volume Title: Subtitle of the Book, edited by Editor First Name Surname, Vol. volume # of Title of Multivolume Book. Publisher if published before 1900, Year.

 
Example:

​Holloway, David. “Nuclear Weapons and the Escalation of the Cold War, 1945–1962." In Origins, ed. Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad, Vol. 1 of The Cambridge History of the Cold War. Cambridge University Press, 2010.

 

Multivolume Works (Sec. 14.117)

General Format (Whole Series)
 
Full Note: 
            1. Author First Name/Initial Surname, Book Title: Subtitle of Book, ed. First Name 
Surname, Total number of volumes vols. (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year).
 
Example:
            1. Jonathan Sumption, The Hundred Years War, 4 vols. (Philadelphia, PA: University
of Pennsylvania Press, 1990-2015).
 
Bibliography:
Author Surname, First Name. Book Title: Subtitle of Book. Edited by First Name 
Surname. # of volumes vols. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year.
  
Example:
Sumption, Jonathan. The Hundred Years War. 4 vols. Philadelphia, PA: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1990-2015.
 

One Volume in Multivolume Works (Sec. 14.118-119)

General Format (One Volume)
 
Full Note: 
2. Author First Name/Initial Surname, Book Title: Subtitle of Book, ed. First Name 
Surname, vol. volume # (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year), pages.
 
Example:
2. Georges Lefebvre, The French Revolution, trans. Elizabeth Moss Evanson, 
vol. 1 (London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1962-64), 25-29.
 
Subsequent Note:
3. Author Surname, Book Title, Volume #:page #.
 
Example:
            3. Lefebvre, The French Revolution, 1:48.
 
Bibliography:
Author Surname, First Name. Book Title: Subtitle of Book. Vol. #, Title of Volume.
      Edited by First Name Surname. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year.
  
Example
Lefebvre, Georges. The French Revolution. Vol. 1, From Its Origins to 1793. 
Translated by Elizabeth Moss Evanson. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1962-64.
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