B: Authors Last Name, First. Title of Book. City: Publisher, Year.
N: 1 Author First Name Last, Title of Book (City: Publisher, Year), page numbers.
Quick tips!
B: Author Last Name, First, and Other Author(s) First Name Last.
Example: Three Authors: Austen, Jane, and Duke Ellington. Title of Book.
etc.
Example: Four Authors: Austen, Jane, Duke Ellington, and Al Gore. Title of Book
. etc.
N: 1
Author First Name Last, Other Author(s) First Name Last.
Example: 2
Jane 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.”
Example
: 3
Jane Austen et al., Title of Book
, etc.
Author formatting (Last, First, First Last, and First Last) will be the same for any multi-authored item.
B: Editor Last Name, First, ed. Title of Book . City: Publisher, Year.
N: 2 Editor First Name Last, ed., Title of Book (City: Publisher, Year), page numbers.
If more than one editor is present, use “eds.” instead of “ed.”
B: Author Last Name, First. Title of Book . Edited by First Name Last. City: Publisher, Year.
N: 3 Author 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.
B: Editor Last Name, First, and Other Editor’s First Name Last Name, eds. Title of Book …
Example: Obama, Bo, and Choupette Lagerfeld, eds. Celebrity Pets…
N : Bo Obama and Choupette Lagerfeld, eds., Celebrity Pets...
Note: The editor’s names are Bo Obama and Choupette Lagerfeld. In the bibliographic ( B) entry, only the first name is inverted as Last Name, First and in the footnote ( F), all names appear regularly as First Name Last Name
B: Translator Last Name, First, trans. Title of Book . etc.
Example: Smith, John, trans. German Book of Songs . Etc.
N: 1
Translator First Name Last, trans., Title of Book
. etc.
Example: 1
John Smith, trans., German Book of Songs
...etc.
Translator along with author or editor
B : Smith, John. Native Instruments of Europe . Edited by Mary Q. Contrary. Translated by Amy Walker. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
B : Smith, John. Parallel Fifths and Other Horrors . Translated and edited by Amy Walker. New York: Scarecrow, 1992.
N : 1 John Smith, Native Instruments of Europe , ed. Mary Q. Contrary, trans. Amy Walker (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 45-61.
N : 1 John Smith, Parallel Fifths and Other Horrors , trans. And ed. Amy Walker (New York: Scarecrow, 1992), 48-52.
B: Authors Last Name, First. Title of Book. Rev. ed. City: Publisher, Year.
N: Author First Name Last, Title of Book , Rev. ed. (City: Publisher, Year), page numbers.
B: Authors Last Name, First. Title of Book. 2nd ed. City: Publisher, Year.
N: Author First Name Last, Title of Book , 2nd. ed. (City: Publisher, Year), page numbers.
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For further examples, please consult: Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations , 9th ed., rev. by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams, et al. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018).