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Turabian citation style

A guide to citing sources using Turabian Style, 9th edition

General rules

If the city of publication might be unfamiliar or easily confused with another city, add the abbreviation for the province/state. Where two or more cities are given, include only the first. For publisher names you can leave out “Inc.”, “Ltd.”, “Co.” or “Company.” For reprints, you may include the date of the original edition in square brackets before the current publication date.

For more examples or more specific information about how to cite books, please see Section 19.1 of the Turabian Guide.

Print books

Print book with one author

Sample reference list entry:

Wright, Miriam Carol. 2001. A Fishery for Modern Times: The State and the  Industrialization of the Newfoundland Fishery, 1934-1968. Toronto: Oxford University Press.

Print book with multiple authors

In the reference list include all authors' names, no matter how many. (But in your in-text citation for more than 3 authors, list the first author followed by "et al.")

Sample reference list entry:

Katona, Steven K., Valerie Rough, and David T. Richardson. 1993. A Field Guide to the Whales, Porpoises, and Seals from Cape Cod to Newfoundland. 4th ed. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Ebooks

Ebook accessed from a library database

If you accessed it through the library, give the DOI or “Digital Object Identifier” (preferred) or the name of the database (e.g Proquest Ebook Central, EBSCOHost, SpringerLink, Sage, etc.).

Sample reference list entry:

Hubbard, Jennifer Mary. 2006. A Science on the Scales: The Rise of Canadian Atlantic Fisheries Biology, 1898-1939. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442670464.

Ebook accessed on the web

Give the DOI or “Digital Object Identifier” (preferred) or the URL.

Sample reference list entry:

Austen, Jane. 1918. Pride and Prejudice. New York: Charles Schribner's Sons. http://books.google.ca/books/about/Pride_and_Prejudice.html?id=s1gVAAAAYAAJ.

Ebook downloaded onto a device

If you downloaded it to your device or ebook reader, indicate the format (e.g. iBooks, Kindle, Kobo, Adobe Digital Editions PDF, etc.).

Sample reference list entry:

Austen, Jane. [1813] 2007. Pride and Prejudice. New York: Penguin Classic. Kobo.

Edited books

Book with an editor instead of an author

Add the abbreviation "ed." (or "eds." for multiple editors).

Sample reference list entry:

Robinson, Francis, ed. 1996. Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Book with an editor in addition to an author

When editors' names follow the title, use "Edited by."

Sample reference list entry:

Bonnefoy, Yves. 1996. New and Selected Poems. Edited by John Naughton and Anthony Rudolf. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Chapter or section in an edited book

Sample reference list entry:

Vietmeyer, Noel. 1992. "Forgotten Roots of the Incas." In Chilies to Chocolate: Food the Americas Gave the World, edited by Nelson Foster and Linda S. Cordell, 95-117. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Edition of a book other than the first

Sample reference list entry:

Daniels, Roger. 2002. Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life. 2nd ed. New York: Harper Perennial.