Turabian: A Manual for Writers of Research Papers
Note Number. Firstname M. Lastname, Title and Subtitle of the Book (Publisher, Year of Publication), Page number(s).
1. Tieken, Mara Casey. Educated Out : How Rural Students Navigate Elite Colleges--and What It Costs Them. (The University of Chicago Press, 2025), 34.
Must be preceded by the full citation somewhere in the work.
Note Number. Lastname, Short Title, Page number(s).
1. Mara Casey Tieken, Educated Out : How Rural Students Navigate Elite Colleges--and What It Costs Them. (The University of Chicago Press, 2025), 34.
...
47. Tieken, Educated Out, 24.
If the next note is exactly the same work; capitalize and follow by a period; only include page number(s) if different.
Note Number. Ibid., Page number(s).
1. Mara Casey Tieken, Educated Out : How Rural Students Navigate Elite Colleges--and What It Costs Them. (The University of Chicago Press, 2025), 39.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid., 175.
Lastname, Firstname M. Title and Subtitle of the Book. Publisher, Year of Publication.
Tieken, Mara Casey. Educated Out : How Rural Students Navigate Elite Colleges--and What It Costs Them. The University of Chicago Press, 2025.
Editors as Authors -- include the abbreviation ed(s). after the names. Otherwise, follow other author guidelines.
Note Number. Firstname M. Lastname, ed., Title and Subtitle of the Book (Publisher, Year of Publication), Page number(s).
1. Donald W. Harward and Ashley P. Finley, eds., Transforming Undergraduate Education: Theory That Compels, and Practices That Succeed (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012), x.
Must be preceded by the full citation somewhere in the work.
Note Number. Lastname, Short Title, Page number(s).
24. Harward and Finley, eds., Transforming Undergraduate Education, v.
Lastname, Firstname M., ed. Title and Subtitle of the Book. Publisher, Year of Publication.
Harward, Donald W. and Ashley P. Finley, eds. Transforming Undergraduate Education: Theory That Compels, and Practices That Succeed. Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.
Give all the authors' names and spell out the word 'and' before the last author. For three authors: A comma follows each name.
Note Number. Firstname M. Lastname, Secondname M. Lastname, and Thirdname M. Latname, Title and Subtitle of the Book (Publisher, Year of Publication), Page number(s).
1. J. Peter Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout, and Claude V. Palisca, A History of Western Music (W. W. Norton, 2010), 57.
2. Christine Alexander and Margaret Smith, The Oxford Companion to the Brontës (Oxford University Press, 2003), 192-3.
Must be preceded by the full citation somewhere in the work (CMS17 14.29-36).
Note Number. Lastname, Lastname, and Lastname, Short Title, Page number(s).
6. Alexander and Smith, Oxford Companion to the Brontës, 177.
7. Burkholder, Grout, and Palisca, History of Western Music, 13.
Lastname, Firstname M., Secondname M. Lastname, and Thirdname M. Lastname. Title and Subtitle of the Book. Publisher, Year of Publication.
Alexander, Christine and Margaret Smith. The Oxford Companion to the Brontës. Oxford University Press, 2003.
Burkholder, J. Peter, Donald Jay Grout, and Claude V. Palisca. A History of Western Music. W. W. Norton.
(CMS17 14.76)
Give the first author's name followed by "et al." in the footnote. All authors' names should be given in the bibliography.
Note Number. Firstname M. Lastname et al., Title and Subtitle of the Book (Publisher, Year of Publication), Page number(s).
1. Linda K. Kerber et al., eds., Women's America: Refocusing the Past, 8th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2016), 69.
Note Number. Lastname et al., Short Title, Page number(s).
6. Kerber et al., Women's America, 143.
Lastname, Firstname M., Secondname M. Lastname, ... and Finalname M. Lastname. Title and Subtitle of the Book. Publisher, Year of Publication.
Kerber, Linda K., Jane Sherron De Hart, Cornelia Hughes Dayton, and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu. Women's America: Refocusing the Past. 8th ed. Oxford University Press, 2016.
Note Number. Firstname M. Lastname, "Chapter Title in Quotes," in Title and Subtitle of the Book, ed. Firstname M. Lastname (City: Publisher, Year of Publication), Page number(s).
17. Barbara Sellers-Young, "Men and the Happiness Dance," in The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity, eds. Anthony Shay and Barbara Sellers-Young (Oxford University Press, 2016), 599.
Must be preceded by the full citation somewhere in the work. Last name(s) only. Shortened chapter title. Shortened book title is optional:
Note Number. Lastname, "Short Chapter Title," Page number(s).
24. Sellers-Young, "Happiness Dance," 600.
OR
24. Sellers-Young, "Happiness Dance," in Shay and Sellers-Young, Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity, 600.
Lastname, Firstname M. "Title of Section in Quotes." In Title of Book, edited by Editorfirst Editorlast, page(s). Publisher, Year of Publication.
If you are only citing one section of a book:
Sellers-Young, Barbara. "Men and the Happiness Dance." In The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity, edited by Anthony Shay and Barbara Sellers-Young, 598-612. Oxford University Press, 2016.
If you are citing more than one section, you can either use a shortened book title for each section, followed by a full citation for the book, or simply a full citation for the book without individual chapters.
Either:
Ruyter, Nancy Lee. "La Meri: Purveyor of the Dancing Other." In Shay and Sellers-Young, Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity, 438-453.
Sellers-Young, Barbara. "Men and the Happiness Dance." In Shay and Sellers-Young, Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity, 598-612.
Shay, Anthony and Barbara Sellers-Young, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity. Oxford University Press, 2016.
Or more concisely:
Shay, Anthony and Barbara Sellers-Young, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity. Oxford University Press, 2016.
