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Chicago Manual of Style -- Author - Date References

Edited works / dictionary / encyclopedia

 

Nouns

editor(s) -- ed. or eds       

Revised Edition -- rev. ed.

compiler(s) -- comp. or comps.

translator(s) --trans. (for both singular and plural)

no date -- n.d.

volume(s) -- vol(s).

Verbs

edited by ( in bibliography) / ed. (in notes)

compiled by ( in bibliography) /comp. (in note)

translated by (in bibliography) / trans. (in note)

When editor(s), compiler(s) or translator(s) is in place of author 

 ♦      (Knight 2015)

         Knight, Alicia, ed. 2015. Enhanced Oil Recovery: Methods, Economic Benefits and Impacts on the Environment. 
                 New York: Nova Publishers.

  ♦     (Silverstein 1974) 

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

When both author and editor(s), compiler(s) or translator(s) are listed

     (García Márquez 1970)

       García Márquez, Gabriel. 1970. One Hundred Years of Solitude. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Oprah's Book
              Club. New York; Evanston: Harper & Row, Publishers.

Chapter in an edited book / Contribution to a mult-iauthor book

      (Gould 1984)

        Gould, Glenn. 1984.  "Streisand as Schwarzkopt." In The Glenn Gould Readder, edited by Tim page, 308-11.
                New York: Vintage.   

       (Samples 2006)

         Samples, John. 2006. "The Origins of Modern Campaign Finance Law." Chap. 7 in The Fallacy of Campaign  
                  Finance Reform
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 Books with edition number (abbreviated as "ed." /"rev. ed." for Revised Edition )

♦       (Chicago Manual 2017)

         The Chicago Manual of Style. 2017. 17th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 

♦      (Palfrey 2011)

        Palfrey, Simon. 2011. Doing Shakespeare. Rev. ed. Arden Shakespeare. London: Arden Shakespeare: Methuen 
                Drama. 

Books with volume number

      ---  When a multi-volume, multiyear work is included as an entry in the reference list,  the in-text citation should provide the specific volume number (maybe with page number).

        (Falola and Jean-Jacques 2016, 1:101)  or (Falola and Jean-Jacques 2016, vol. 1)

         Falola, Toyin, and Daniel Jean-Jacques, eds. 2016. Africa: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society. 3 vols. Santa
                 Barbara,   California: ABC-CLIO. 

   ---  When a specific volume is cited:
♦         
(Hayek 2011, 329)

           Hayek, F. A. 2011. The Constitution of Liberty: The Definitive Edition. Edited by Ronald Hamowy. Vol. 17 of The 
                 Collected Works of F.A. Hayek
, edited by Bruce Caldwell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988-.

Entries in dictionaries and encyclopedias

        ---  References to an alphabetically arranged work cite the item (not the volume or page number) preceded by s.v. (sub verbo, "under the word"; pl. s.vv.)

♦      (Encyclopedia Britannica 1980)

          Encyclopedia Britannica. 1980. 15th ed. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica. s.v. "salvation." 

         (Falola and Jean-Jacques 2016) 

        Falola, Toyin, and Daniel Jean-Jacques, eds. 2016. Africa: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society. 3 vols. Santa
                 Barbara,   California: ABC-CLIO. s.v. "Congo"

     --- To cite an entry by author

♦       (Middleton 2004)

          Middleton, Richard. 2004. "Lennon, John Ono (1940-1980)." In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
                  Oxford University Press. 

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