PLEASE NOTE: As of this 18th edition, the city of publication is NO LONGER required for book citations.
FOOTNOTE format and examples:
1 Author's first name last name, Title of Book in Italics (Publisher, Year of publication), inclusive pages.
2 Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown (Pantheon Books, 2020), 45.
3 Yu, Interior Chinatown, 48.
BIBLIOGRAPHY format and example:
Author's last name, first name. Title of Book in Italics. Publisher, Year of publication.
Yu, Charles. Interior Chinatown. Pantheon Books, 2020.
See Chicago Manual - section 13.22 (p.785)
FOOTNOTE format and examples:
1 First author's first name last name and Second author's first name last name, Title of Book in Italics (Publisher, Year of publication), inclusive pages.
2 Terry Greene Sterling and Jude Joffe-Block, Driving While Brown: Sheriff Joe Arpaio Versus the Latino Resistance (University of California Press, 2021), 110.
3 Sterling and Joffe-Block, Driving While Brown, 205-06.
BIBLIOGRAPHY format and example:
First author's last name, first name, and Second author's first name last name. Title of Book in Italics. Publisher, Year of publication.
Sterling, Terry Greene, and jude Joffe-Block. Driving While Brown: Sheriff Joe Arpaio Versus the Latino Resistance. University of California Press, 2021.
See Chicago Manual - section 13.23 (p.786)
FOOTNOTE format and examples:
1 First author's first name last name et al., Title of Book in Italics (Publisher, Year of publication), inclusive pages.
2 Katie Aubrecht et al., eds., The Aging-Disability Nexus (UBC Press, 2020), 44.
3 Aubrecht et al., Aging-Disability Nexus, 49-50.
BIBLIOGRAPHY format and example:
First author's last name, first name, Second author's first name last name, and Third author's first name last name. Title of Book in Italics. Publisher, Year of publication.
Aubrecht, Katie, Christine Kelly, and Carla Rice, eds. The Aging-Disability Nexus. UBC Press, 2020.
NOTE: List up to 6 authors in the bibliography; if there are more than 6, list only the first 3, followed by 'et al.'
See Chicago Manual - section 13.23 (p.786)
For books consulted via a library or commercial database and available only through a library account or subscription, include the name of the database. For other types of e-books, name the format or website URL. If no fixed page numbers are available, cite a section title or a chapter or other number in the notes.
FOOTNOTE format and examples:
1 Author's first name last name, Title of Book in Italics (Publisher, Year of publication), inclusive pages/chapter/section, Database/URL/format.
2 Brooke Borel, The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking (University of Chicago Press, 2023), 92, EBSCO.
3 Borel, Fact-Checking, 104–5.
4 Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner, eds., The Founders’ Constitution (University of Chicago Press, 1987), chap. 10, doc. 19, https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/.
5 Kurland and Lerner, Founders’ Constitution, chap. 4, doc. 29.
6 Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (Random House, 2008), chap. 6, Kindle.
7 Roy, God of Small Things, chap. 7.
BIBLIOGRAPHY format and examples:
Author's last name, first name. Title of Book in Italics. Publisher, Year of publication.
Borel, Brooke. The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking. University of Chicago Press, 2016. EBSCO.
Kurland, Philip B., and Ralph Lerner, eds. The Founders’ Constitution. University of Chicago Press, 1987. https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/.
Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Random House, 2008. Kindle.
See Chicago Manual - section 13.10 (p.780), 14.58 (p.877), and 14.60 (p.879)
FOOTNOTE format and examples:
1 Editor's first name last name, ed. Title of Book in Italics (Publisher, Year of publication), inclusive pages.
2 Marc Stein, ed., The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History (New York University Press, 2019), 89.
3 Stein, Stonewall Riots, 92.
BIBLIOGRAPHY format and example:
Editor's last name, first name, ed. Title of Book in Italics. Publisher, Year of publication.
Stein, Marc, ed. The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History. New York University Press, 2019.
NOTE: For editor(s), use ed. or eds.; for compiler(s), use comp. or comps.; for translator(s), use trans.
See Chicago Manual - section 14.5 (p.851)
FOOTNOTE format and examples:
1 Author's first name last name, Title of Book in Italics, trans. Translator's first name last name (Publisher, Year of publication), inclusive pages.
2 Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words, trans. Ann Goldstein (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016), 146.
3 Lahiri, In Other Words, 184.
BIBLIOGRAPHY format and example:
Author's last name, first name. Title of Book in Italics. Translated by Translator's first name last name. Publisher, Year of publication.
Lahiri, Jhumpa. In Other Words. Translated by Ann Goldstein. Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
NOTE: For editor(s), use ed./eds. and Edited by; for compiler(s), use comp./comps. and Compiled by; for translator(s), use trans. and Translated by.
See Chicago Manual - section 14.6 (p.852)
PLEASE NOTE: As of this 18th edition, the page range for a chapter in a book is NO LONGER required in a bibliography entry.
FOOTNOTE format and examples:
1 Author's first name last name, "Title of Chapter in Quotation Marks," in Title of Book in Italics, ed. Editor's first name last name (Publisher, Year of publication), inclusive pages.
2 Alison Richard, “Human Footprints,” in The Sloth Lemur's Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present (University of Chicago Press, 2022), 148.
3 Richard, "Human Footprints," 155.
BIBLIOGRAPHY format and example:
Author's last name, first name. "Title of Chapter in Quotation Marks." In Title of Book in Italics, edited by Editor's first name last name, Publisher, Year of publication.
Richard, Alison. “Human Footprints.” In The Sloth Lemur's Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present. University of Chicago Press, 2022.
See Chicago Manual - section 14.8 (p.853-54)
FOOTNOTE format and examples:
1 Author's first name last name, Title of Book in Italics, edition. (Publisher, Year of publication), inclusive pages.
2 Amy Einsohn and Marilyn Schwartz, The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications, 4th ed. (University of California Press, 2019), 401-2.
3 Einsohn and Schwartz, The Copyeditor's Handbook, 455.
BIBLIOGRAPHY format and example:
Author's last name, first name. Title of Book in Italics. Edition. Publisher, Year of publication.
Einsohn, Amy and Marilyn Schwartz. The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications. 4th ed. University of California Press, 2019.
See Chicago Manual - section 14.15 (p.587-58)
FOOTNOTE format and examples:
1 Author's first name last name, Title of Book in Italics (Publisher, Year of publication), volume #: inclusive pages.
2 Muriel St. Clare Byrne, ed., The Lisle Letters (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), 4:243.
3 Byrne, Lisle Letters, 4:245.
BIBLIOGRAPHY format and example:
Author's last name, first name. Title of Book in Italics. Vol. #. Publisher, Year of publication.
Byrne, Muriel St. Clare, ed. The Lisle Letters. Vol. 4. University of Chicago Press, 1981.
See Chicago Manual - section 14.20 and 14.21 (p.860-61)
FOOTNOTE format and examples:
1 Author's first name last name, "Title of Dissertation or Thesis in Quotation Marks" (PhD diss. or MA thesis, Institution, Year of publication), inclusive page, URL or Database (database identification number).
2 Yuna Blajer de la Garza, “A House Is Not a Home: Citizenship and Belonging in Contemporary Democracies” (PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2019), 66–67, ProQuest (13865986).
3 Blajer de la Garza, "House," 93.
4 Ilya Vedrashko, "Advertising in Computer Games" (MA thesis, MIT, 2006), 59, https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39144.
5 Vedrashko, "Advertising," 61-62.
BIBLIOGRAPHY format and example:
Author's last name, first name. "Title of Dissertation or Thesis in Quotation Marks." PhD diss. or MA thesis, Institution, Year of publication. URL or Database (database identification number).
Blajer de la Garza, Yuna. “A House Is Not a Home: Citizenship and Belonging in Contemporary Democracies.” PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2019. ProQuest (13865986).
Vedrashko, Ilya. “Advertising in Computer Games.” MA thesis, MIT, 2006, https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39144.
See Chicago Manual - section 14.113 (p.907-08)