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Chicago/Turabian Style

Need help with formatting citations? Use this brief guide to Chicago/Turabian Style.

One Author: B=bibliography N=footnote

B:  Author Last Name, First.  Title of Book
             City: Publisher, Year.
N:  ¹Author First Name Last, Title of Book
(City:  Publisher, Year), page numbers.

*In the Bibliographic citation, don't forget
to insert a hanging indent if your citation
takes up more than 1 line

Editor as author

B:  Editor Last Name, First, ed. Title of Book.
             City: Publisher, Year.
N:  ²Editor First Name Last, ed., Title of Book
(City:  Publisher, Year), page numbers.

*If more than one editor is present, use "eds." instead of "ed."

Author & Editor present

B:  Author Last Name, First.  Title of Book.
            Edited by First Name Last.  City:
            Publisher, Year.
N:  ³Author First Name Last, Title of Book
ed. Editor First Name Last (City: Publisher, 
Year), page numbers.

*If more than one editor is present, use "eds." instead of "ed." in footnote.

Multiple authors: B=bibliography N=footnote

B: Author Last Name, First and Other Author(s) First Name Last.
ex: 
 Austen, Jane and Duke Ellington.  Title of Book.  etc.
ex: Austen, Jane, Duke Ellington, and Al Gore.  Title of Book.  etc.

N:  ¹Author First Name Last, Other Author(s) First Name Last.
ex:  ²Jane Austen, Duke Ellington, and Al Gore, Title of Book, etc.


Note: In the footnote, if you have more than three authors, choose 
the first author on the title page, and then follow with "et al." 
ex:  ³Jane Austen et al., Title of Book, etc.

Translator present

Translator as author:
B: Translator Last Name, First, trans.  Title of Book.  etc.
ex: Smith, John, trans. German Book of Songs. etc.
N: ¹Translator First Name Last, trans., Title of Book. etc.
ex:  ²John Smith, trans., German Book of Songs...  etc.


Translator along with author or editor
ex, B: Smith, John.  Native Instruments of Europe.  Edited by 
                         Mary Q. Contrary.  Translated by Amy Walker.  
                        Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 2000.
ex, B:  Smith, John.  Parallel Fifths and Other Horrors.  Translated and 
                        edited by Amy Walker.  New York:  Scarecrow, 1992.

ex, N:  ³John Smith, Native Instruments of Europe, ed. Mary Q. 
Contrary, trans. Amy Walker (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 2000), 45-61.
ex, N:  ¹John Smith, Parallel Fifths and Other Horrors, trans. and ed. 
Amy Walker (New York: Scarecrow, 1992), 48-52.

Chapters in Books

Turabian suggests that when it comes to books, you should cite the main title of the book if it offers a single, continuous argument or narrative. But--if you only consult on part of a book that is a collection of independent pieces on several topics--then you may cite the one chapter or essay most relevant to your research.

B:  Article Author Last Name, First.  "Fabulous chapter 
            on unique topic." In Title of Book Containing 
            this Fabulous Chapter
, edited by Editor First Name 
            Last, page numbers.  City:  Publisher, Year.
ex: Smith, John.  "Those Chords Sound Janky."  In Chord 
             Types:
 Historians and Novelists Confront America's 
             Chord Types
, edited by Mary Q. Contrary, 147-54.  New York:  
            Simon and Schuster, 2011.

N:  ¹Article Author First Name last, "Fabulous chapter on unique 
topic," in Title of Book Containing this Fabulous Chapter, ed. 
Editor First Name Last (City:  Publisher, year), page numbers.
ex:  ²John Smith, "Those Chords Sound Janky," in Chord Types:
Historians and Novelists Confront America's Chord Types, ed. Mary 
Q. Contrary (New York:  Simon and Schuster, 2011),  147-54.

Attribution

Attribution: DePauw University Libraries, Turabian/Chicago Style, Music Citations