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Turabian Citation Style Guide 9th Edition: D. Chapter in an Edited Book

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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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Chapter in an Edited Book

The general format below refers to a chapter of an edited book contributing authors. Be sure to note the use of the word "In" which refers the reader to the title of the book that the chapter is found in. This type of citation or reference also uses the names of both the chapter author and the book editor.
 

Notes-Bibliography Style (pp.152; 184-185):

General Format

Note:
Note Number. Chapter Author First Name/Initial Last Name, "Title of Chapter: Subtitle of Chapter," in Title of Book: Subtitle of Book, ed. Editor's First Name and Last Name (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year), page #(s).
 
Bibliographic Entry:
Chapter Author Last Name, Chapter Author First Name/Initial. "Title of Chapter: Subtitle of Chapter." In Book Title: Subtitle, edited by Editor's First Name/Initial Last Name, page numbers. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year.
 
 

Examples

Note:
6. Mary Rowlandson, "The Narrative of My Captivity," in The Making of the American Essay, ed. John D'Agata (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2016), 19-20.
 
Bibliographic Entry:​
Rowlandson, Mary. "The Narrative of My Captivity." In The Making of the American Essay, edited by John D'Agata, 19-56. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2016.
 
 

Author-Date Style (pp.226, 251-252):

General Format

Parenthetical Citation:
(Chapter Author last Name Year, page #(s))
 
Reference List Entry:
Chapter Author Last Name, First Name/Initial. Year. "Title of Chapter: Subtitle of Chapter." In Book Title: Subtitle, edited by  Editor First Name/Initial Last name, pages. Place of Publication: Publisher. 
 

Examples

 
Parenthetical Entry:

(Spirn 1996, 101)

 
Reference List Entry:​
Spirn, Anne Whitson. 1996. "Constructing Nature: The Legacy of Frederick Law Olmstead." In Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, edited by William Cronon, 91-113. New York: W. W. Norton and Company.

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