gerpsychic.blogg.se - Chicago footnote citation

This shows anyone who is reading your paper that this chapter is very important for your research. If you use a chapter in a book that is particularly significant for your project, or if you only use one chapter within a book in your project, you may find it useful to cite just that chapter in the text and in your list of works cited. Generally, you want to cite individual articles separately and chapters within a single-author book are more commonly cited as just the whole work.

If the article or chapter plays a large role in your paper, or if that chapter is written by a different author than the rest of the book, then it is a good idea to cite the specific part. It’s often sufficient to just cite the work as a whole. You don’t always need to cite the specific part of a book you are using. Editor First Name Last Name (City: Publisher, Year), page(s) cited.

Author First Name Last Name, “Chapter Title,” in Book Title, ed. “Chapter Title.” In Book Title, edited by Editor First Name Last Name, page range of chapter. Here’s a simple citation structure example for citing a chapter within a single-author book: Bibliography:Īuthor Last Name, First Name.

However, you only include the page(s) you are citing in your footnotes or endnotes. The italicized title of the complete work/book comes next after the word “in.” In a bibliography or reference list, you’ll need to include the page range or specific chapter number of the part of the book you are citing.

Introduction, preface, afterword, or similar part of a bookĬiting a section of a book is similar to citing a complete book in Chicago style. When citing a section of a book, you include the author’s name followed by the title of the section or chapter enclosed in quotation marks.

In this guide, you’ll find what you need in order to create notes-bibliography style chapter citations according to the standards in the 17th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. If you are writing a research paper, there’s a very good chance you’ll need to cite a specific chapter or other part of a book, especially if that book is an anthology or contains chapters written by different authors.