About Citing Books
For each type of source in this guide, the general form and specific examples will be provided for the Notes-Bibliography 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.
Book with One Author or Editor
General Format
Footnote:
Superscript Note Number(space) Author First Name/Initial Last Name, Book Title: Subtitle (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year), page #(s).
Bibliographic Entry:
Author Last Name, First Name or Initial. Book Title: Subtitle. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year.
Examples
Footnote:
1 Paul P. Enns, The Moody Handbook of Theology (Chicago: Moody Press, 1989), 25.
Bibliographic Entry:
Enns, Paul P. The Moody Handbook of Theology. Chicago: Moody Press, 1989. (Always use hanging indents for bibliography entries.)
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