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Turabian Citation Style Guide 9th Edition: A. One Author

About Citing Books

For each type of source in this guide, the general form and specific examples will be provided for both the Notes-Bibliography and the Author-Date style options of Turabian.

This information and several of the examples were drawn from A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations (9th edition). Numbers in parentheses refer to specific pages in the manual.

For further information, please ask your instructor or refer to the Turabian manual.

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Book with One Author or Editor

The general format below refers to a book with one author.
 

Notes-Bibliography Style (pp. 151, 171-183):

General Format

Note:
Note Number. Author First Name/Initial Author Last Name, Book Title: Subtitle (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year), page #(s).
     
Bibliographic Entry:
Author Last Name, Author First Name/Initial. Book Title: Subtitle. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year.
 
  

Examples

Note:
1. Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel (New York: Henry Holt, 1999), 25.
 
Bibliographic Entry:

Rushdie, Salman. The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel. New York: Henry Holt, 1999.

  

Author-Date Style (pp. 225, 238-250):

General Format

Parenthetical Citation:

(Author Last Name Year, page #)

 
Reference List Entry:
Author Last Name, Author First Name/Initial. Year. Book Title: Subtitle. Place of publication: Publisher.
 
 

Examples

Parenthetical Entry:

(Rushdie 1999, 65)

  
Reference List Entry:

Rushdie, Salman. 1999. The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel. New York: Henry Holt.

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