Books

CHICAGO SOURCE MAP: 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.

  • 1 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.
  • 2 Title. Italicize the title and subtitle and capitalize all major words.
  • 3 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.
  • 4 Publication year. In a bibliographic entry only, end with a period.
  • 5 Page number. In a note only, end with the page number and a period.

Citations for the book on p. 505 would look like this:

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bibliographic entry

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Title and copyright pages from Red Heat by Alex von Tunzelmann. Copyright © 2011 by Alex von Tunzelmann. Title and copyright pages Copyright © 2011 by Henry Holt and Company, LLC. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.