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Chicago 18th edition author-date

Author-date for the Chicago Manual of Style 18th edition

Citing books

A reference to a book must include enough information to lead interested readers to the source.

The title of the book is italicised. 

List the name of the author(s) or editor(s) or, if none are listed, name of institution standing in their place. An author’s name and the title of a book should generally be cited according to how it appears on the title page.

In a reference list, the surname of the first author is inverted (last name first).

If a translator as well as an editor is listed, the names should appear in the same order as on the title page of the original (14.6).

Place of publication is no longer required in book citations (14.30)

One author

Type Format
Elements of citation Author -- Title: subtitle italicised -- publisher and date -- Page number(s) (13.106)
In-text citations (Blanshard 2006, 151)
Reference list Blanshard, Alastair. 2006. Hercules: A Heroic Life. Granta.
EndNote reference type Book

Two authors

Type Format
Elements of citation

In a reference list, only the first author’s name is inverted, and a comma must appear both before and after the first author’s given name or initials (13.107)

In-text citations

(Butcher and Elson 2017, 21)

Reference List

Butcher, John G. and R. E. Elson. 2017. Sovereignty and the sea: how Indonesia became an archipelagic state. National University of Singapore.

EndNote reference type

Book

Ensure you place authors on separate lines

Three to six authors

Type Format
Elements of citation

List up to six authors in the reference list (13.107). Invert the first author’s name, and a comma must appear both before and after the first author’s given name or initials

In-text citations

(Kargon, Fiss and Low 2015, 57)

Reference List

Kargon, Robert H., Karen Fiss, and Morris Low. 2015. World's Fairs on the Eve of War. University of Pittsburgh Press.

EndNote reference type

Book

Ensure you place authors on separate lines

More than six authors

Type Format
Elements of citation

For a book with four or more authors, include all the authors in the reference list entry. In the text, cite only the last name of the first-listed author, followed by et al. (13.107).

In-text citations

(McWilliam et al. 2015, 3)

Reference list

McWilliam, Janette, James Donaldson, Amelia Brown, Sandra Christou, and Judith Powell. 2015. Cyprus: An Island and a People. RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

EndNote reference type

Book

Ensure you place authors on separate lines

Edited book

Type Format
Elements of citation

In an edited book, a work is listed by the name(s) of the editor(s). In full note citations and in bibliographies, the abbreviation ed. or eds. follows the name, preceded by a comma (13.116)

In-text citations

(Ginn, Davies and Rough 2010, 5)

Reference list

Ginn, Geoff, Hilary Davies and Brian Rough, eds. 2010. 'A most promising corps': Citizen soldiers in colonial Queensland. Colonial Forces Study Group.

EndNote reference type Edited book

Translated book

Type Format
Elements of citation

Author -- Date -- Title italicised -- Edited by or Translated by -- Place of Publication -- Publisher (13.116)

In-text citations

(Xinwu 2021, 15)

Bibliography Liu Xinwu. The Wedding Party. 2021. Translated by Jeremy Tiang. Amazon Crossing.
Endnote reference type

Book

Enter translator’s name in the Translator field.

The translator's name may need to be entered with a comma  to format correctly e.g. Jeremy Tiang, 

Anonymous works

Type Format
Elements of citation

If the author, editor, translator, or the like for the work is unknown, the reference list entry should normally begin with the title. An initial article is ignored in alphabetizing. Text citations may refer to a short form of the title but must include the first word (other than an initial article) (13.125)

In-text citations

(True and Sincere Declaration 1610)

Reference list

A True and Sincere Declaration of the Purpose and Ends of the Plantation Begun in Virginia, of the Degrees Which It Hath Received, and Means by Which It Hath Been Advanced. 1610. London.

EndNote reference type Book