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Chicago Manual of Style - South Bend-Elkhart: A. One Author or Editor

Book with One Author or Editor (p. 695)

The general format below refers to a book with one author. 
 
If you are dealing with one editor instead of one author, insert the editor's name in the place where the author's name is now, followed by a comma and the word "ed." without the quotation marks.  The rest of the format remains the same.
 
General Format 
 
      Full Note: 
 
            1. Author First Name/Initial Surname, Book Title: Subtitle (Place of Publication:
      Publisher, Year), page #.
 
      Concise Note:
 
            2. Author Surname, Book Title, page #.

      Bibliography:
 
      Author Surname, First Name or Initial. Book Title: Subtitle. Place of Publication:
            Publisher, Year.
  
Example
 
      Full Note:

            1. Salman Rushdie, The Ground beneath Her Feet (New York: Henry Holt, 1999),
      25. 
 
      Concise Note:

            2. Rushdie, The Ground beneath, 25.
   
      Bibliography:

      Rushdie, Salman. The Ground beneath Her Feet. New York: Henry Holt, 1999.