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Turabian Citation Style Guide 9th Edition: F. Organization 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.

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Organization as Author

The general format below refers to a publication that does not have a personal author's name and is issued by an organization, association, corporation or commission.  The organization that is listed as the author can also be the same organziation that is listed as the publisher.

 

Notes-Bibliography Style (p. 173):

General Format

Note:
Note Number. Organization Name, Book Title: Subtitle (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year), page #(s).
 
Bibliographic Entry:
Organization Name. Book Title: Subtitle. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year. 

 

Examples

Note:

9. World Health Organization, Organization of Services for Mental Health (Geneva: World Health Organization, 2003), 50.

 
Bibliographic Entry:
World Health Organization. Organization of Services for Mental Health. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2003.

 

 

Author-Date Style (p. 240):

General Format

Parenthetical Citation:
(Organization Name Year, page #)
 
Reference List Entry:
 
Organization Name. Year. Title of Book: Subtitle. Place of Publication: Publisher.

 

Examples

Parenthetical Entry:
(World Health Organization 2003, 50)
 
Reference List Entry:

World Health Organization. 2003. Organization of Services for Mental Health. Geneva: World Health Organization.

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