Citing Sources: Chicago/ Turabian

Remember to italicize the book title.

Basic Format

Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Publication Date.

Example:

Cunningham, Bill. Fashion Climbing. New York: Penguin Press, 2018.

Two authors or more:
(List the authors in the order they are listed in the book. Notice that the order of the second author's name is different from the first author.)

Koda, Harold, and Kohle Yohannan. The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion.  New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press, 2009.

Sometimes there is no individual author but rather an organization, association, government agency or corporation that is the author of a book.  The organization's name goes where the author's name would go.

American Viscose Corporation. Rayon Technology: Handbook for Textile Mills. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1948.

(Sometimes the organizational author is the same as the publisher.  It's acceptable to list it twice.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012.

If there is no author just begin with the title.  When you are alphabetizing your works cited page, treat the first word of the title as if it were an author's last name.  Trying to avoid listing Anonymous as the author unless the book is specifically attributed as Anonymous.

Statistical Fact Book: The Definitive Source for Direct Marketing Benchmarks. New York: Direct Marketing Association, 2009.

eBooks are cited similarly to print books but should mention the platform or file type (e.g. Kindle). Include the URL or name of the database.

Sandhu, Arti. Indian Fashion: Tradition, Innovation, Style. London: Bloomsbury Fashion Central, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474232364.

If you are citing one essay/chapter of an anthology cite the author of the chapter, followed by the title of the chapter in quotes then use the word "in" before the title of the full book.

Wheatley, Phillis. "To His Excellency George Washington." In The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Vol. 1, edited by Nina Baym, 427. Shorter 8th ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2013.

(If you are citing the entire anthology, the editor is listed before the title. Here is an example:)

Baym, Nina, ed. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Vol 1. Shorter 8th ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2013.