Music Citations: Turabian/Chicago Style: Books

B: Authors Last Name, First. Title of Book. City: Publisher, Year.

N: 1 Author First Name Last, Title of Book (City: Publisher, Year), page numbers.

Quick tips!

• In a Bibliographic citation, don’t forget to insert a “hanging indent.” As you'll see above, if your citation does not take up more than one line it won't look like the indentation is set to hanging but I promise the citation above has the hanging settings!
• If the name of two or more cities are listed, only cite the first one.
• If the city of publication is not well know, i.e. Cloverdale, IN, or might be confused with a city of the same name, i.e. Oxford, OH, include an abbreviation of the state, province, or country.
• For foreign cities of publication, use the English name if there is one: i.e. Milan not Milano.
• If there is no place of publication, write  n.p.
• If you can guess a probable place, put the location in brackets with a questions mark, i.e. [Munich?]: Albrecht Knaus.
• Give the publishers name as it appears on the title page, but you may omit abbreviations such as The , Inc., & Co. , and Ltd .

B: Author Last Name, First, and Other Author(s) First Name Last.

Example: Three Authors: Austen, Jane, and Duke Ellington. Title of Book. etc.
Example: Four Authors: Austen, Jane, Duke Ellington, and Al Gore. Title of Book . etc.

N: 1 Author First Name Last, Other Author(s) First Name Last.
Example: 2 Jane Austen, Duke Ellington, and Al Gore, Title of Book , etc.

Note : In the footnote, if you have more than three authors, choose the first author on the title page, and then follow with “et al.”
Example :  3 Jane Austen et al., Title of Book , etc.

Author formatting (Last, First, First Last, and First Last) will be the same for any multi-authored item.

B: Editor Last Name, First, ed. Title of Book . City: Publisher, Year.

N: 2 Editor First Name Last, ed., Title of Book (City: Publisher, Year), page numbers.

If more than one editor is present, use “eds.” instead of “ed.”

B: Author Last Name, First. Title of Book . Edited by First Name Last. City: Publisher, Year.

N: 3 Author First Name Last, Title of Book , ed. Editor First Name Last (City: Publisher, Year), page numbers.

If more than one editor is present, use “eds.” instead of “ed.” in footnote.

B: Editor Last Name, First, and Other Editor’s First Name Last Name, eds. Title of Book …

Example: Obama, Bo, and Choupette Lagerfeld, eds. Celebrity Pets…

N : Bo Obama and Choupette Lagerfeld, eds., Celebrity Pets...

Note: The editor’s names are Bo Obama and Choupette Lagerfeld. In the bibliographic ( B) entry, only the first name is inverted as Last Name, First and in the footnote ( F), all names appear regularly as First Name Last Name

B: Translator Last Name, First, trans. Title of Book . etc.

Example: Smith, John, trans. German Book of Songs . Etc.

N: 1 Translator First Name Last, trans., Title of Book . etc.
Example: 1 John Smith, trans., German Book of Songs ...etc.

Translator along with author or editor

B : Smith, John. Native Instruments of Europe . Edited by Mary Q. Contrary. Translated by Amy Walker. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

B : Smith, John. Parallel Fifths and Other Horrors . Translated and edited by Amy Walker. New York: Scarecrow, 1992.

N :  1 John Smith, Native Instruments of Europe , ed. Mary Q. Contrary, trans. Amy Walker (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 45-61.

N :  1 John Smith, Parallel Fifths and Other Horrors , trans. And ed. Amy Walker (New York: Scarecrow, 1992), 48-52.

B: Authors Last Name, First. Title of Book.  Rev. ed. City: Publisher, Year.

N: Author First Name Last, Title of Book  , Rev. ed. (City: Publisher, Year), page numbers.

B: Authors Last Name, First. Title of Book.  2nd ed. City: Publisher, Year.

N: Author First Name Last, Title of Book  , 2nd. ed. (City: Publisher, Year), page numbers.

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