Source Map: Books in {em}Chicago{/em} style

Source Map: Books

Books

Take information from the book’s title page and copyright page (on the reverse side of the title page), not from the book’s cover or a library catalog. Look carefully at the differences in punctuation between the note and the bibliographic entry.

image Author. In a note, list the author(s) first name first. In a bibliographic entry, list the first author last name first. List other authors first name first.

image Title. Italicize the title and subtitle and capitalize all major words.

image City of publication and publisher. List the city (and country or state abbreviation for an unfamiliar city) followed by a colon. In a note only, city, publisher, and year appear in parentheses. Drop Inc., Co., Publishing, or Publishers. Follow with a comma.

image Publication year. In a bibliographic entry only, end with a period.

image Page number. In a note only, end with the page number and a period.

Citations for the book pictured below would look like this:

ENDNOTE

1. Alex von Tunzelmann, Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean (New York: Picador, 2011), 178.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC ENTRY

von Tunzelmann, Alex. Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean. New York: Picador, 2011.

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Copyright and title pages from the book Red Heat by Alex von Tunzelmann. Copyright © 2011 by Alex von Tunzelmann. Copyright and title pages copyright © 2011 by Henry Holt and Company, LLC. Used by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC. All rights reserved.