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How To - Use the Chicago Style Guide: Book with Personal Authors

Book with Personal Author(s)

Material Type           Footnote/Endnote              Bibliography                                                        
 

General Format: 

Author's First Name Last Name, Title of Book, Edition. (Place of Publication: Publisher, Date of Publication), Page Number.

General Format: Use the hanging indent for the Bibliography entries.

Author's Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Place of publication: Publisher, Date of Publication.

Book with 1 author         Prem S. Mann, Introductory Statistics, 8th ed. (New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2013), 216.

Mann, Prem S. Introductory Statistics, 8th ed. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2013.

Book with 2-3 authors      Gregory J. Feist and Erika L. Rosenberg, Psychology: Perspectives and Connections, 3rd ed. (New York: McGraw Hill Education, 2015), 109.                                      

Feist, Gregory J. and Erika L. Rosenberg. Psychology: Perspectives and Connections, 3rd ed. New York: McGraw Hill Education, 2015.

Book with 4-10 authors

Theodore L. Brown et al., Chemistry: The Central Science, 14th ed. (New York: Pearson, 2017), 392.

Brown, Theodore L., H. Eugene Lemay, Jr., Bruce E. Bursten, Catherine J. Murphy, Patrick M. Woodward, Matthew W. Stoltzfus, and Michael W. Lufaso. Chemistry: The Central Science, 14th ed. New York: Pearson, 2017.
Chapter in a single-author book        Martha J. Cutter, "'These Loathsome Pictures Shall Be Published': Reconfigurations of the Optical Regime of Transatlantic Slavery in Amelia Opie’s The Black Man’s Lament (1826) and George Bourne’s Picture of Slavery in the United States of America (1834)," in The Illustrated Slave : Empathy, Graphic Narrative, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800–1852 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017), 70.

Cutter, Martha J. "'These Loathsome Pictures Shall Be Published': Reconfigurations of the Optical Regime of Transatlantic Slavery in Amelia Opie’s The Black Man’s Lament (1826) and George Bourne’s Picture of Slavery in the United States of America (1834)." In The Illustrated Slave : Empathy, Graphic Narrative, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800–1852, 66-107. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017.