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Chicago 16th edition referencing style

Footnotes and Bibliography for the Chicago Manual of Style 16th edition

Books

For anonymous works, an editor or translator can be cited as the author. See example 8 in the next box.

If there is no personal author or editor, a corporate body responsible for the work can be cited as the author. See example 11.

If there is no indication of a person or corporate body responsible for the text, the title is used as the first element of a citation in the footnote. See example 10.

For a text by one author which has been edited and/or translated by another author, see examples 9 and 13.

The title is given in italics.

The series title may be included, if considered important. Numbered series are usually more significant than unnumbered series. See examples 6 and 13.

For a book published electronically, include the URL or digital object identifier (DOI), if available. For electronic books accessed via subscription databases, where there is no stable or permanent URL or DOI, just give the name of the database. See examples 12, 14 and 15.

Book examples

1. Wendy Doniger, Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 23.

2. Kurt Johnson and Steve Coates, Nabokov's Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius (Cambridge, MA: Zoland Books, 1999), 167.

3. Ken Stewart, ed., The 1890s: Australian Literature and Literary Culture (St Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, 1996), 97.

4. Arthur J. Knoll and Lewis H. Gann, eds., Germans in the Tropics: Essays in German Colonial History (New York: Greenwood Press, 1987), 137.

5. George Graham, Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction, 2nd ed. (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1998), 87.

6. Kyriakos Nicolaou, The Historical Topography of Kition, Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 43 (Goteborg: Astrom, 1976), 304.

7. Raymond Evans et al., 1901, Our Future’s Past: Documenting Australia’s Federation (Sydney: Macmillan, 1997), 35.

8. Theodore Silverstein, trans., Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974), 34.

9. Rigoberta Menchú, Crossing Borders, trans. and ed. Ann Wright (New York: Verso, 1999), 109.

10. Conflict: A Nation Faces the Challenge (Brisbane: Freedom Publishing, 1961), 18.

11. World Health Organization, Abortion Laws: A Survey of Current World Legislation (Geneva: World Health Organization, 1971), 60–70.

12. Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner, eds., The Founders' Constitution (Chicago: University of

Chicago Press, 2000), chap. 10, http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/.

13. Appian, The Civil Wars, trans. John Carter, Penguin Classics (London: Penguin Books, 1996), 187.

14. David Jenemann, Adorno in America (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007), 87, Ebook Library.

15. Tom Greggs, Barth, Origen and Universal Salvation: Restoring Particularity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 98, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199560486.001.0001.