Chicago Style: Citing Books - Academic Skills - Trent University

Book with single author
Book with 2 or 3 authors
Book with 4 or more authors
Electronic book
Book with a translator
Book with group/corporate author
Book with no given author
Book that has been reissued or republished
Book that is an edition other than the first

Sample reference entry in Chicago Style formatted with a hanging indent.

Book With One Author

First Footnote/Endnote

1. Finis Dunaway, Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), 15.

Subsequent Footnotes/Endnotes

2. Dunaway, Natural Visions, 200.

Author's Name: Last Name First. Title of Book. City Where Published: Publisher, Year of Publication.

Dunaway, Finis. Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Notice:

In the footnote, the author's first name is listed first. In the bibliography, the author's last name is listed first.
Titles of books are listed in italics.

Book With Two or Three Authors

If the book has two or three authors or editors, list all names in the order that they appear on the title page. Separate the names with commas and write "and" before the last name.

First Footnote/Endnote

1. Myra Sadker and David Sadker, Failing at Fairness: How America's Schools Cheat Girls (New York: Touchstone, 1995), 12.

Subsequent Footnotes/Endnotes

2. Sadker and Sadker, Failing at Fairness, 15.

Authors' Names: Last Name First for First Author Only. Title of Book. City Where Published: Publisher, Year of Publication.

Sadker, Myra, and David Sadker. Failing at Fairness: How America's Schools Cheat Girls. New York: Touchstone, 2005.

Notice:

In the bibliography, the first author's name is inverted but the second author's name is not.
In the bibliography, there is a comma in between the first author's first and last names AND between her last name and the word "and." You write out the full word "and" rather than using the “&” symbol.

Book With Four To Ten Authors

In the footnote or endnote, list only the first author followed by "et al." In the bibliography, you should list all of the authors.

First Footnote/Endnote

1. Paul Boyer et al., The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007), 18.

Subsequent Footnotes/Endnotes

2. Boyer et al., The Enduring Vision, 25.

Authors' names: Last Name First for First Author Only. Title of Book. City Where Published: Publisher, Year of Publication.

Boyer, Paul, Clifford Clark, Joseph Kett, Neil Salisbury, and Harvard Sitkoff. The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005.

Notice:

In the bibliography, the first author's name is inverted but the rest of the authors' names are not.
In the bibliography, there is a comma in between the first author's first and last names AND between the second last name and the word "and." You write out the full word "and" rather than using an ampersand (&).

Electronic Book

For books used in an electronic format, indicate the format used at the end of your citation. Because many e-books will not have page numbers, or have page numbers which differ from its printed counterpart, include chapter or section numbers as locators.

When citing a book that you read online, include the web address for the book (DOI or URL) and, if it is time sensitive, the date on which you accessed it.

Downloaded e-book

First Footnote/Endnote

1. Kevin Chong, My Year of the Racehorse: Falling in Love With the Sport of Kings (Vancouver, BC: Greystone Books, 2012), Kindle edition, chapter 10.

Subsequent Footnotes

2. Chong, My Year of the Racehorse, Chapter 4.

Author's Name: Last Name First. Title of Book. Year of Original Publication if Book Republished. City Where Published: Publisher, Year of Publication. E-book edition.

Chong, Kevin. My Year of the Racehorse: Falling in Love With the Sport of Kings. Vancouver, BC: Greystone Books, 2012. Kindle edition.

Books Used Online

First Footnote/Endnote

1. Walter L. Adamson, Avant-grade Florence: From Modernism to Fascism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993), 82 https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674729315 idx?c=acls;cc= acls;rgn=full%20text;idno=heb00462.0001.001;didno=heb00462.0001.001;view=image;seq=00000005.

Subsequent Footnote/Endnotes

2. Adamson, Avante-garde Florence, 12.

Bibliography

Author's Name, Last Name First. Title of Book. City Where Published: Publisher, Year of Publication. URL

Example

Adamson, Walter L. Avant-garde Florence: From Modernism to Fascism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pagevieweridx?c=acls;cc=acls;rgn=fu... =image;seq=00000005

Notice:

When a URL is too long to fit on one line, create a break where there is punctuation (period, slash, dash); do not add a hypen to the URL. The break comes after a single or double slash and before a period, comma, tilde, hyphen or underline. A line break can come before or after an ampersand or equals sign.

Book With A Translator

If a book has a translator, write the abbreviation "trans." after the name of the translator.

First Footnote/Endnote

3. Meander, Plays and Fragments, trans. Norma Miller (London: Penguin, 1987), 12.

Subsequent Footnotes/Endnotes

6. Meander, Plays and Fragments, 82.

Author's Name, Last Name First. Title of Book. Translator's Name. City Where Published: Publisher, Year of Publication.

Meander. Plays and Fragments. Translated by Norma Miller. London: Penguin, 1987.

Book With Group or Corporate Author

Some texts have a corporation, organization, association, or institution listed as their author rather than an individual. In such cases, the name of the organization is put in place of the author's name.

First Footnote/Endnote

1. American Psychological Association, Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th ed. (Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 2010), 25.

Subsequent Footnotes/Endnotes

3. American Psychological Association, Publication Manual, 25.

Group or Corporate Name. Title of Book. Number of ed. City Where Published: Publisher, Year of Publication.

American Psychological Association. Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. 6th ed. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 2010.

Book With No Given Author

If a work has no author, begin the note or bibliographic entry with the title of the work. Leave out articles such as "The" or "A" at the beginning of the title.

First Footnote/Endnote

1. 1990 Stoddart Restaurant Guide to Toronto (Toronto: Stoddart, 1990), 10.

Subsequent Footnotes/Endnotes

3. 1990 Stoddart, 15.

Title of Book. City Where Published: Publisher, Year of Publication.

1990 Stoddart Restaurant Guide. Toronto: Stoddart, 1990.

Notice:

In this example, for a work with no author, the title includes numbers which can make it tricky for your bibliography. Treat numerals as if they are in word form. This entry would be listed alphabetically under "N" for "nineteen ninety".

Book that has been Reissued or Republished

First Footnote/Endnote

1. T. J. Jackson Lears, No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920 (1981; reis., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), 24.

Subsequent Footnotes/Endnotes

2. Lears, No Place of Grace, 200.

Author's Name: Last Name First. Title of Book. City Where Published: Publisher, Year of Publication. Original Publication information.

Lears, T. J. Jackson. No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. First published 1981 by Pantheon.

Notice:

In the footnote, the original date of publication is listed first and is followed by the publisher and date of reissue. In the footnote, "reis." is used as an abbreviation for reissued. In the bibliography, the publisher and date of reissue are listed first. The original publication date and publisher are listed last. If you do not know the original publisher, simple write "First published 1981" and do not specify the publisher's name.

Edition Other Than the First

When referencing a book that is an edition other than the first, write the edition number or description after the title followed by the abbreviation “ed.”

First Footnote/Endnote

1. Wayne Weiten and Doug McCann, Psychology: Themes and Variations, 2nd Canadian ed. (Toronto: Nelson Education, 2010), 13.

Subsequent Footnotes/Endnotes

2. Weiten and McCann, Psychology, 212.

Authors' Names: Last Name First for First Author Only. Title of Book. Edition. City Where Published: Publisher, Year of Publication.

Weiten, Wayne and Doug McCann. Psychology: Themes and Variations. 2nd Canadian ed. New York: Touchstone, 2005.