Chicago Style Guide: References: Books

On your References page, list all your sources alphabetically by author name, according to the pattern shown here.  Use a hanging indent!

For a book with one author:

Smith, Zadie. 2016. Swing Time. New York: Penguin Press.

A book with multiple authors:

• List all names in full, with ‘and’ at the end (no ampersand):

Grazer, Brian, and Charles Fishman. 2015. A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life. New York: Simon & Schuster.

To list two or more entries with the same author:

• Arrange in alphabetical order by title, and use a 3-em-dash (———) in place of the author's name after the first entry.

Austen, Jane. 2001. Mansfield Park.  New York: Modern Library.

———. 2008. Sense and Sensibility.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

A book with an editor:

D’Agata, John, ed. 2016. The Making of the American Essay. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press.

One chapter from a book with an editor:

• If a book has an author AND an editor or translator, put the editor’s/translator’s name after the book title.  Do not abbreviate Edited or Translated.
• For a chapter in a book or ebook (such as a collection of essays), include the chapter author, the title of the piece in quotation marks, and the editor.  Put In before the title of the book:

Thoreau, Henry David. 2016. “Walking.” In The Making of the American Essay, edited by John D’Agata, 167–95. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press.

Gould, Glenn, 1984.  “Streisand as Schwarzkopf.”  In The Glenn Gould Reader, edited by Tim Page, 308-11.  New York: Vintage Books.

A book with a translator:

Lahiri, Jhumpa. 2016. In Other Words. Translated by Ann Goldstein. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

For an ebook:

• Include a URL or the name of the database in the reference list entry. For other types of e-books, name the format.

Robinson, Barry. 2016. The Mark of Rebels: Indios Fronterizos and Mexican Independence, 122-25. Tuscaloosa: University Alabama Press, 2016. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost), EBSCOhost (accessed January 23, 2018).

Austen, Jane. 2007. Pride and Prejudice. New York: Penguin Classics. Kindle.

• If no page numbers are available, cite a section title or a chapter, if any:

Kurland, Philip B., and Ralph Lerner, eds. 1987. The Founders’ Constitution, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/