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Turabian Citation Style Guide 9th Edition: C. More than Three Authors

This guide will help you cite sources in the Turabian/Chicago Style.

About Citing Books

For each type of source in this guide, the general form and specific examples will be provided for both the Notes-Bibliography and the Author-Date style options of Turabian.

This information and several of the examples were drawn from A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations (9th edition). Numbers in parentheses refer to specific pages in the manual.

For further information, please ask your instructor or refer to the Turabian manual.

Book with More Than Three Authors

The general format below refers to a book with more than three authors.
 
General Format
 
Notes-Bibliography Style  (pp. 146-7; 166-181):
 
Note:
 
   Note Number. Author First Name/Initial Last Name et al., Book Title: Subtitle (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year), page #.
 
Bibliographic Entry:
 
 

Examples

 
Notes-Bibliography Style:

 

Note:
   6. Edward O. Laumann et al., The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994) 262.
 

Bibliographic Entry:​

 

General Format

Author-Date Style:

 
Parenthetical Citation:
 
(Author Surname et al. Year, page #)
 
Reference List Entry:
 
Examples
 
Author-Date Style:
 

Parenthetical Entry:

 

(Laumann et al. 1994, 262)

 
Reference List Entry:​

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