Research Guides: Chicago Manual of Style: A. One Author or Editor

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Book with One Author or Editor (Sec. 14.2-14.762)

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.

Note:

A place of publication is no longer required in book citations for books (see 14.30). However, if the book was published before 1900, include the city of publication instead of the publisher's name in your citation (see 14.31).

General Format

Full Note:

^1. Author First Name Initial. Surname, Book Title: Subtitle of the Book (Publisher, Year), page #.

^2. Author First Name Initial. Surname, Book Title: Subtitle of the Book (Place of Publication if published before 1900, Year), page #.

Example:

^1. Partha Chatterjee, The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power (Princeton University Press, 2012), 52.

^2. David W. Ellwood, ed., The Movies as History: Visions of the Twentieth Century.(Sutton, 2000), 4.

^3. Susanna Moodie, Roughing it in the Bush; or, Forest Life in Canada (London, 1852). 26.

Subsequent Note:

^3. Author Surname, Book Title, page #.

Example:

^4. Chatterjee, The Black Hole of Empire, 25.

^5. Ellwood, The Movies as History, 8.

^6. Moodie, Roughing it in the Bush, 77.

Bibliography:

Author Surname, First Name or Initial. Book Title: Subtitle of the Book. Publisher, Year.

Author Surname, First Name or Initial. Book Title: Subtitle of the Book. Place of Publication if publication year before 1900, Year.

Example:

Chatterjee, Partha. The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power. Princeton University Press, 2012.

Ellwood, David W., ed. The Movies as History: Visions of the Twentieth Century. Sutton, 2000.

Moodie, Susanna. Roughing it in the Bush; or, Forest Life in Canada. London, 1852.

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