Check our examples for citing a book (different versions) according to Turabian AD principles.
General format for citing a book:
Reference List:
Last Name, First Name. Year. Title of Book. Place of publication: Publisher.
In our citation examples, we use the following color coding:
- Red – Author
- Blue – Title of book/article/charter/webpage
- Pink – Date
- Orange – Website/Publisher
- Turquoise – Place of publication
- Violet – Editor/Translator
- Black – Volume/Issue
- Sienna – Pages
- Gold – Book, a part/chapter of which is being cited
- Peach – Additional information about the source (i.e. its type, specific features etc.)
- Light magenta – Encyclopedia/dictionary entry
Single author
Example:
Byrnes, William J. 2022. Management and the Arts. New York: Routledge.
Two or three authors
Example:
Aaker, David A., and Christine Moorman. 2023. Strategic Market Management. New York:
John Wiley & Sons.
Four or more authors
Example:
Bratton, John, Jeff Gold, Andrew Bratton, and Laura Steele. 2021. Human Resource
Management. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
No author
Example:
Encyclopedia of History. 2023. New York: Routledge.
Multiple works by the same author
Add a 3-em dash in all entries after the first one when citing multiple works written by the same author.
Example:
Perloff, Marjorie. 2020. Infrathin: An Experiment in Micropoetics. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press.
—. 2021. Rhyme and Meaning in the Poetry of Yeats. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
Different editions
Example:
Tappen, Ruth M. 2022. Advanced Nursing Research: From Theory to Practice. 3rd ed.
New York: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Editor or translator instead of author
Use “trans.” instead of “ed.” when a translator of the work is mentioned.
Example:
Lawrence, Elsa, ed. 2022. Handbook of Business. New York: American University
Press.
Authors plus editors or translators
Use phrases like edited by (ed.), compiled by (comp.) or translated by (trans.) when it is necessary.
Example:
Churchill, Winston. 2024. Churchill: The Power of Words. Edited by Martin Gilbert.
New York: Hachette Books.
Encyclopedia or dictionary
If there is a need to cite the encyclopedia multiple times on the same page, use s.vv. instead of s.v., and cite all the words after.
Example:
The New Encyclopedia Britannica. 15th ed. s.vv. “Astronomy,” “Chemistry,” “Tradition,”
“Philosophy.”
Chapter in an edited book
Example:
Killian, James. “Chapter Five: Nursing Paradigms.” In Nursing Principles, edited by
Cath Jones, 112-124. London: SAGE, 2023.
Corporate author
Example:
World Health Organization. 2023. Global Report on Hypertension: The Race against a
Silent Killer. Geneva: World Health Organization Press.
E-book
Example:
Levy, Michael, and Dhruv Grewal. Retail Management. London: McGraw-Hill, 2023.
EPUB.
Preface, foreword, afterword, or introduction
Example:
Lucio, Miguel Martinez. 2022. Preface to International Human Resource Management: The
Transformation of Work in a Global Context, edited by Miguel Martinez Lucio and
Robert MacKenzie, xiv-xv. Thousand Oaks: SAGE.