How to Cite Books in Turabian AD Style
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
Byrnes, William J. 2022. Management and the Arts. New York: Routledge.
Two or three authors
Aaker, David A., and Christine Moorman. 2023. Strategic Market Management. New York:
John Wiley & Sons.
Four or more authors
Bratton, John, Jeff Gold, Andrew Bratton, and Laura Steele. 2021. Human Resource
Management. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
No author
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
The New Encyclopedia Britannica. 15th ed. s.vv. “Astronomy,” “Chemistry,” “Tradition,”
“Philosophy.”
Chapter in an edited book
Killian, James. “Chapter Five: Nursing Paradigms.” In Nursing Principles, edited by
Cath Jones, 112-124. London: SAGE, 2023.
Corporate author
World Health Organization. 2023. Global Report on Hypertension: The Race against a
Silent Killer. Geneva: World Health Organization Press.
E-book
Levy, Michael, and Dhruv Grewal. Retail Management. London: McGraw-Hill, 2023.
EPUB.
Preface, foreword, afterword, or introduction
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.