Citation Styles Playbook

• (Pollan 2006, 99–100)

•  Pollan, Michael. 2006. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. New York: Penguin.

IN-TEXT CITATION: (First author's last name and second author's last name Year, page numbers)

• (Ward and Burns 2007, 52)

REFERENCE LIST:  First author's last name, first name, and second author's first & last names. Year. Book Title. City of Publication: Publisher.

• Ward, Geoffrey C., and Ken Burns. 2007. The War: An Intimate History, 1941–1945. New York: Knopf.

*If a source has four or more authors, include only the first author in-text, followed by et al. (Latin for “and others”). List up to ten authors in the reference list; for more than ten authors, include only the first seven in the reference list, followed by et al.

IN-TEXT CITATION: (First author's last name et al. Year, page numbers)

• (Sechzer et al. 1996)

REFERENCE LIST: First author's last name, first name, additional author's first initials & last names. Year. Book Title. City of Publication: Publisher.

• Sechzer, Jeri A., S. M. Pfaffilin, F. L. Denmark, A. Griffin, and S. J. Blumenthal. 1996. Women and Mental Health. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University.

*Chicago Manual of Style sections 15.40-15.45

IN-TEXT CITATION: (Author's last name Year, page numbers)

• (Schecter and Brown 2011, 54-56)
• (Lattimore 1951, 91–92)

REFERENCE LIST: Editor/Translator/Compiler's last name, first name, ed./trans./comp. Year. Book Title. City of Publication: Publisher.

• Schecter, Harold and Kurt Brown, comps. 2011. Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem. London: Everyman Paperback Classics.
• Lattimore, Richmond, trans. 1951. The Iliad of Homer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

*Chicago Manual of Style sections 15.9, 15.36

IN-TEXT CITATION: (Author's last name Year, page numbers)

• (Bonnefoy 1995, 48-50)
• (García Márquez 1988, 242–55)

REFERENCE LIST: Author's last name, first name. Year. Book Title. Edited/Translated/Compiled by Editor/Translator/Compiler's first & last names. City of Publication: Publisher.

• García Márquez, Gabriel. 1988. Love in the Time of Cholera. Translated by Edith Grossman. London: Cape.

*Chicago Manual of Style sections 15.9

IN-TEXT CITATION: (Author's last name Year, page numbers)

• (Kelly 2010, 77)

REFERENCE LIST: Author's last name, first name. Year. "Chapter or essay title." In Book Title, edited by Editor's first & last names, page numbers. City of Publication: Publisher.

• Kelly, John D. 2010. “Seeing Red: Mao Fetishism, Pax Americana, and the Moral Economy of War.” In Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency, edited by John D. Kelly, Beatrice Jauregui, Sean T. Mitchell, and Jeremy Walton, 67–83. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

*Chicago Manual of Style section 15.36, 15.42

IN-TEXT CITATION: (Author's last name Year, page numbers)

• (Cicero 1986, 35)

REFERENCE LIST: Author's last name, first name. Year. "Chapter or essay title." In Book Title, edited by Editor's first & last names. Vol. number of Series Title, edited by Editor's first & last names, page numbers. City of Publication: Publisher. Originally published in Editor/Translator's name, ed./trans., Book Title, vol. number (City of Publication: Publisher, Year).

• Cicero, Quintus Tullius. 1986. “Handbook on Canvassing for the Consulship.” In Rome: Late Republic and Principate, edited by Walter Emil Kaegi Jr. and Peter White. Vol. 2 of University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization, edited by John Boyer and Julius Kirshner, 33–46. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Originally published in Evelyn S. Shuckburgh, trans., The Letters of Cicero, vol. 1 (London: George Bell & Sons, 1908).

*Chicago Manual of Style section 15.9

IN-TEXT CITATION: (Author's last name Year, page numbers)

• (Rieger 1982, xx–xxi)

REFERENCE LIST: Author of introduction's last name, first name. Year. Introduction/preface to Book Title, by author of book's first & last names, page numbers. City of Publication: Publisher.

• Rieger, James. 1982. Introduction to Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, xi–xxxvii. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

*Chicago Manual of Style section 15.3

*Please note that chapter 15 of the Chicago Manual of Style does not provide specific examples of reference citations; therefore, the example below is adapted from information found in chapter 14.

IN-TEXT CITATION: (Author's last name, Year)

• (Barker 2004)

REFERENCE LIST: Author's last name, first name. Year of publication. "Title of Article." In Title of Reference Work. City of Publication: Publisher. Accessed or Revision Date (provide access date if no publication date or revision date is available). DOI or stable URL (if electronic).  

• Barker, Juliet. 2004. "Bronte, Emily Jane [psued. Ellis Bell]." In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press. Accessed January 24, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/3524. 

*If a book is available in more than one format, cite the version you consulted. For books consulted online, list a URL; include an access date only if one is required by your instructor. If no fixed page numbers are available, you can include a section title or a chapter number.

IN-TEXT CITATION: (Author's last name Year, page numbers or chapter number, if applicable)

• (Austen 2007)
• (Kurland and Lerner 1987, chap. 10, doc. 19)

REFERENCE LIST: Author last name, first name. Year. Book Title. City of Publication: Publisher. E-book format OR access date. URL.

• Austen, Jane. 2007. Pride and Prejudice. New York: Penguin Classics. Kindle edition.
• Kurland, Philip B., and Ralph Lerner, eds. 1987. The Founders’ Constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Accessed February 28, 2010. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/.

*Chicago Manual of Style section 15.9

*If the reader and author are the same, replace “Read by first & last name” with “Read by the author.”

IN-TEXT CITATION: (Author's last name Year)

• (Strayed 2012)

REFERENCE LIST: Author last name, first name. Year. Book Title. Read by first & last name. City of Publication: Publisher. Medium, Running time.

• Strayed, Cheryl. 2012. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail. Read by Bernadette Dunne. New York: Random House Audio. Audible audio ed., 13 hr., 6 min.

*Chicago Manual of Style section 15.57