Books without Editors or Translators
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Book: One Author
Footnote Format
1 Forename Surname, Title of Book: Subtitle of Book (City, ST: Publisher Name, Year of Publication), ##.
2 Surname, Shortened Title, #.
3 Surname, Shortened Title, #.
Footnote Examples
1 Donald E. Gowan, Eschatology in the Old Testament (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2000).
2 Ray C. Petry, Christian Eschatology and Social Thought: A Historical Essay on the Social Implications of Some Selected Aspects in Christian Eschatology to A.D. 1500 (New York: Abingdon, 1956), 239.
3 Gowan, Eschatology, 81.
4 James L. Kugel, Traditions of the Bible: A Guide to the Bible As It Was at the Start of the Common Era (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998).
5 Petry, Christian Eschatology, 173-74.
6 Gowan, Eschatology, 78.
Bibliography Format
Surname, Forename. Title of Book: Subtitle of Book. City, ST: Publisher Name, Year of Publication.
Bibliography Examples
Gowan, Donald E. Eschatology in the Old Testament. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2000.
Kugel, James L. Traditions of the Bible: A Guide to the Bible As It Was at the Start of the Common Era. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Petry, Ray C. Christian Eschatology and Social Thought: A Historical Essay on the Social Implications of Some Selected Aspects in Christian Eschatology to A.D. 1500. New York: Abingdon, 1956.
Two or More Books by Same Author
Footnote Format
1 Forename Surname, Title of Book1: Subtitle of Book1 (City, ST: Publisher Name, Year of Publication), ##.
2 Forename Surname, Title of Book1: Subtitle of Book1 (City, ST: Publisher Name, Year of Publication), ##.
3 Surname, Shortened Title1, #.
4 Surname, Shortened Title2, #.
Footnote Examples
1 Ray C. Petry, Christian Eschatology and Social Thought: A Historical Essay on the Social Implications of Some Selected Aspects in Christian Eschatology to A.D. 1500 (New York: Abingdon, 1956), 239.
2 Ray C. Petry, Late Medieval Mysticism (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1957), 53.
3 Petry, Christian Eschatology, 173-74.
4 Petry, Mysticism, 55.
Bibliography Format
Surname, Forename. Title of Book: Subtitle of Book. City, ST: Publisher Name, Year of Publication.
———. Title of Book2: Subtitle of Book2. City, ST: Publisher Name, Year of Publication.
Bibliography Examples
Petry, Ray C. Christian Eschatology and Social Thought: A Historical Essay on the Social Implications of Some Selected Aspects in Christian Eschatology to A.D. 1500. New York: Abingdon, 1956.
———. Late Medieval Mysticism. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1957.
Book: Two or Three Authors
Footnote Format
1 Forename1 Surname1 and Forename2 Surname2, Title of Book: Subtitle of Book (City, ST: Publisher Name, Year of Publication), ##.
2 Surname1 and Surname2, Shortened Title, ##.
3 Forename1 Surname1, Forename2 Surname2, and Forename3 Surname3, Title of Book2: Subtitle of Book (City, ST: Publisher Name, Year of Publication), ##.
4 Surname1, Surname2, and Surname3, Shortened Title2, ##.
Footnote Examples
1 Emil Brunner and Olive Wyon, The Christian Doctrine of Creation and Redemption (London: Lutterworth, 1952), 231.
2 Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath, and Bruce S. Thornton, Bonfire of the Humanities: Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2001), 297-98.
3 Brunner and Wyon, Christian Doctrine, 340.
4 Hanson, Heath, and Thornton, Bonfire, 134.
Bibliography Format
Surname1, Forename1, and Forename2 Surname2. Title of Book: Subtitle of Book. City, ST: Publisher Name, Year of Publication.
Surname1, Forename1, Forename2 Surname2, and Forename3 Surname3. Title of Book2: Subtitle of Book. City, ST: Publisher Name, Year of Publication.
Bibliography Examples
Brunner, Emil, and Olive Wyon. The Christian Doctrine of Creation and Redemption. London: Lutterworth, 1952.
Hanson, Victor Davis, John Heath, and Bruce S. Thornton. Bonfire of the Humanities: Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2001.
Book: Four or More Authors
Footnote Format
1 Forename1 Surname1 et al., Title of Book: Subtitle of Book (City, ST: Publisher Name, Year of Publication), ##.
2 Surname1 et al., Shortened Title, ##.
Footnote Examples
1 Jay M. Bernstein et al., Art and Aesthetics after Adorno (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010), 276.
2 Bernstein et al., Art and Aesthetics, 18.
Bibliography Format
Surname1, Forename1, Forename2 Surname2, Forename3 Surname3, and Forename4 Surname4. Title of Book: Subtitle of Book. City, ST: Publisher Name, Year of Publication.
Bibliography Example
Bernstein, Jay M., Claudia Brodsky, Anthony J. Cascardi, Thierry de Duve, Alex Erjavec, Robert Kaufman, and Fred Rush. Art and Aesthetics after Adorno. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Book: Individually Titled Volume of a Multivolume Work
Turabian lists the title of the multivolume work as a whole first, followed by the individual volume title.
Footnote Format
1 Forename Surname, Title of Multivolume Work: Subtitle of Multivolume Work, vol. #, Title of Individual Volume: Subtitle of Individual Volume (City, ST: Publisher Name, Year of Publication), #:##.
2 Surname, Individual Volume Short Title, ##.
Footnote Examples
1 Norman Geisler, Systematic Theology, vol. 3, Sin, Salvation (Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House, 2004, 324.
2 Geisler, Sin, Salvation, 88-92.
Bibliography Format
Surname, Forename. Title of Multivolume Work: Subtitle of Multivolume Work. Vol. #, Title of Individual Volume: Subtitle of Individual Volume. City, ST: Publisher Name, Year of Publication.
Bibliography Example
Geisler, Norman. Systematic Theology. Vol. 3, Sin, Salvation. Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House, 2004.
Book: Individual Untitled Volume of a Multivolume Work
Footnote Format
In the footnotes, since the volume is not individually titled, you must specify the individual volume number you are citing followed by the page number(s).
1 Forename Surname, Title of Multivolume Work: Subtitle of Multivolume Work (City, ST: Publisher Name, Year of Publication), #:##.
2 Surname, Short Title, #:##.
Footnote Examples
1 Charles Hodge, Systematic Theology (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1946), 2:99-103.
2 Hodge, Systematic Theology, 1:55.
Bibliography Format
NOTE: Turabian §17.1.4.1 requires you to list only individual volumes cited in the bibliography. At Tyndale, we prefer that you cite the multivolume work as a whole indicating the total number of volumes. If the individual volumes were not all published in the same year, you should provide the full range of years of publication, from the publication of the earliest volume to the publication of the most recent volume.
Surname, Forename. Title of Multivolume Work: Subtitle of Multivolume Work. Vol. #, Title of Individual Volume: Subtitle of Individual Volume. City, ST: Publisher Name, Year of Publication.
Bibliography Example
Hodge, Charles. Systematic Theology. 3 vols. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1946.
Book: Multivolume Work (as a whole - not citing specific pages)
In the vast majority of cases, you should cite the individual volume of a multivolume work (see examples above). However, there may be occasions where you refer to a multivolume work as a whole without referring to or quoting specific content on specific pages. In such cases, you should use the format below.
Footnote Format
1 Forename Surname, Title of Multivolume Work: Subtitle of Multivolume Work, # vols. (City, ST: Publisher Name, Year of Publication).
Footnote Examples
1 Charles Hodge, Systematic Theology, 3 vols. (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1946).
Bibliography Format
Surname, Forename. Title of Multivolume Work: Subtitle of Multivolume Work. # vols. City, ST: Publisher Name, Year of Publication.
Bibliography Example
Hodge, Charles. Systematic Theology. 3 vols. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1946.
General Sequence of Information for Books
Author(s)
Title (If multivolume, then
a. Multivolume Title
b. Individual Volume Number
c. Individual Volume Title)
Editor(s) (if edited, list only book editor, not series editor)
Translator(s) (if translated)
Edition (only if not first edition)
Series Title (only if part of a series
Number in Series (only if part of a numbered series; not to be confused with volume number in multivolume book)
Facts of Publication (City: Publisher, Date)