Chicago Author-Date Citation Style

Books

Reference list

Lastname, Firstname M. Year of Publication. Title and Subtitle of the Book. City: Publisher. 

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. 1991. A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812. New York: Vintage. 

In-text citation

(Lastname Year, page range)

(Ulrich 1991, 91-92)

Edited Books

Reference list

Lastname, Firstname M., ed. Year of Publication. Title and Subtitle of the Book. City: Publisher. 

Harward, Donald W. and Ashley P. Finley, eds. 2012 Transforming Undergraduate Education: Theory That Compels, and Practices That Succeed.  Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield. 

In text citation

(Harward and Finley 2012, 10)

2 or 3 Authors or Editors

Reference list

Lastname, Firstname M., Secondname M. Lastname, and Thirdname M. Lastname. Year of Publication. Title and Subtitle of the Book. City: Publisher. 

Alexander, Christine and Margaret Smith. 2003. The Oxford Companion to the Brontës. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

4 to 10 Authors or Editors

Reference list

Lastname, Firstname M., Secondname M. Lastname, ... and Finalname M. Lastname. Year of Publication. Title and Subtitle of the Book. City: Publisher. 

Kerber, Linda K., Jane Sherron De Hart, Cornelia Hughes Dayton, and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu. 2016. Women's America: Refocusing the Past​.  8th ed. New York: Oxford University Press. 

In text citation

(Kerber et al. 2016, 54-55)

Chapter or other Parts of a Book

Reference list

Lastname, Firstname M. Year of Publication. "Title of Section in Quotes." In Title of Book,  edited by Editorfirst Editorlast, page(s). Place: Publisher.

If you are only citing one section of a book:

Sellers-Young, Barbara. 2016. "Men and the Happiness Dance." In The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity, edited by Anthony Shay and Barbara Sellers-Young, 598-612. New York: Oxford University Press.

If you are citing more than one section, you can either include a reference to each section, followed by the book's editors, year, and page range of book section, or simply a full citation for the book without individual chapters.

Either:

Ruyter, Nancy Lee. 2016. "La Meri: Purveyor of the Dancing Other." In Shay and Sellers-Young 2016, 438-453.

Sellers-Young, Barbara. 2016. "Men and the Happiness Dance." In Shay and Sellers-Young 2016, 598-612.

Shay, Anthony and Barbara Sellers-Young, eds. 2016. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity. New York: Oxford University Press.

Or more concisely:

Shay, Anthony and Barbara Sellers-Young, eds. 2016. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity. New York: Oxford University Press.