Click on each of the elements below to learn about footnoting books in Chicago 18 style.
The basic elements and formatting for the footnote are:
Footnote number. Given Name(s) Surname and Given Name(s) Surname, Title of Book: Subtitle, Edition (Publisher, Year), Pinpoint.
Click on the elements below to learn about the basic requirements for books in your bibliography.
The basic elements and formatting for the bibliographic entry are:
Surname, Given Name(s) and Given Name(s) Surname. Title of Book: Subtitle. Edition Publisher, Year.
No Given Name(s) Surname, Title of Book: Subtitle, edition (Publisher, Year), Pinpoint.
Examples:
1 Paul Guyer, Kant’s Impact on Moral Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2024), 20.
2 Tamara Sonn, Islam : History, Religion, and Politics, 3rd ed. (Wiley Blackwell, 2016), 105-8.
3 Guyer, Kant's Impact, 32.
Surname, Given Name(s). Title of Book: Subtitle. Edition. Publisher, Year.
Examples:
Guyer, Paul. Kant’s Impact on Moral Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 2024.
Sonn, Tamara. Islam : History, Religion, and Politics. 3rd ed. Wiley Blackwell, 2016.
No Given Name(s) Surname and Given Name(s) Surname, Title of Book: Subtitle, edition (Publisher, Year), Pinpoint.
Example:
1 J. Christiaan Beker and N. T. Wright, Paul: Narrative or Apocalyptic (Augsburg Fortress Press, 2023), 78-82.
3 Beker and Wright, Paul, 132-5.
Surname, Given Name(s) and Given Name(s) Surname. Title of Book: Subtitle. Edition. Publisher, Year.
Example:
Beker, J. Christiaan, and N. T. Wright. Paul: Narrative or Apocalyptic. Augsburg Fortress Press, 2023.
For books with 3-6 authors, list all authors in the bibliography citation. Only the first author followed by "et al.", is listed in the footnote entry.
No First Author's Given Name(s) Surname et al., Title of Book: Subtitle, edition (Publisher, Year), Pinpoint.
Example:
1 Stanislas Breton et al., A Radical Philosophy of Saint Paul (Columbia University Press, 2011), 141-7.
3 Breton et al., A Radical Philosophy, 23.
Surname, Given Name(s), Given Name(s) Surname, and Given Name(s) Surname. Title of Book: Subtitle. Edition. Publisher, Year.
Example:
Breton, Stanislas, Joseph N. Ballan, and Ward Blanton. A Radical Philosophy of Saint Paul. Columbia University Press, 2011.
For books with more than 6 authors, list the first three authors in the bibliography, followed by "et al.". Only the first author followed by "et al.", is listed in the footnote entry.
No Given Name(s) Surname et al., Title of Book: Subtitle, edition (Publisher, Year), Pinpoint.
Example:
1 Nicola Whiteing et al., Case Studies for Health, Research and Practice in Australia and New Zealand (Council of Australian University Librarians, 2023), 68.
3 Whiteing et al., Case Studies for Health, 99-100.
Surname, Given Name(s), Given Name(s) Surname, and Given Name(s) Surname. Title of Book: Subtitle. Edition. Publisher, Year.
Example:
Whiteing, Nicola, Lucy Shinners, Nicole Graham et al., Case Studies for Health, Research and Practice in Australia and New Zealand. Council of Australian University Librarians, 2023.
No Editor's Given Name(s) Surname, ed., Title of Book: Subtitle (Publisher, Year), Pinpoint.
Example:
4 Jessica Lark, ed., Why are We ‘Artists’?: 100 World Art Manifestos (Penguin, 2017), 217-19.
7 Lark, Why are We ‘Artists’?, 219.
Editor Last name, First name, ed(s). Title of Book. Publisher, Year.
Example:
Lark, Jessica, ed. Why are We ‘Artists’?: 100 World Art Manifestos. Penguin, 2017.
Full work
No Given Name(s) Surname and Given Name(s) Surname, Title of Reference Work, edition (Name of Publisher, Year), Pinpoint.
1 W. R. F. Browning, A Dictionary of the Bible, 2nd ed. (Oxford University Press, 2010), s.v. "Obed".
Entry in work
No Entry Author's Given Name(s) Surname, "Entry Title," in Title of Reference Work, ed. Editor's Given Name(s) and Surname (Name of Publisher, Year), Pinpoint.
2 Dale Tuggy, "Trinity," in
Full work
Entry Author's Surname, Given Name(s). Title. Edition. Name of Publisher, Year of Publication.
Browning, W. R. F. A Dictionary of the Bible. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2010.
Entry in work
Entry Author's Surname, Given Name(s). "Entry Title." In Title of Reference Work: Subtitle. Edition, edited by Editor Given Name(s) Surname. Publisher: Copyright Year. Article date published and modified.
Tuggy, Dale. "Trinity." In Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Spring 2016 ed., edited by Edward N. Zalta. Stanford University, 2015. Article published July 23, 2009; last modified March 18, 2016. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2016/entries/trinity/.
No Author's Given Name(s) Surname, Title of Book: Subtitle, trans.Translator's Given Name(s) Surname (Publisher, Year), Pinpoint.
Example:
4 Walter Kasper, Theology and Church, trans. Margaret Kohl (Crossroad, 1989), 159.
7 Kasper, Theology and Church, 160-2.
Author's Last name, First name. Title of Book: Subtitle. Translated by Translator's Given Name(s) Surname. Publisher, Year.
Example:
Kasper, Walter. Theology and Church. Translated by Margaret Kohl. Crossroad, 1989.