LibGuides: Chicago 17 Resource Center: Multivolume Works

Multivolume Works

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Citing an Entire Multivolume Work (Sec. 14.117)

Full Note:

1. AuthorFirstName MiddleInitial. LastName, Book Title: Subtitle of Book, ed. FirstName Initial. LastName, Total number of volumes vols. (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year).

Example:

1. Jonathan Sumption, The Hundred Years War, 4 vols. (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990-2015).

Subsequent Note:

*See Citing a Volume in a Multivolume Work.

Bibliography:

AuthorLastName, FirstName MiddleInitial. Book Title: Subtitle of Book. Edited by FirstName Initial. LastName. # of volumes vols. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year.

Example:

Sumption, Jonathan. The Hundred Years War. 4 vols. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990-2015.

Citing a Volume in a Multivolume Work (Sec. 14.118-119)

Full Note:

2. AuthorFirstName MiddleInitial. LastName, Book Title: Subtitle of Book, ed. FirstName Initial. LastName, vol. volume # (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year), pages.

Example:

2. Georges Lefebvre, The French Revolution, trans. Elizabeth Moss Evanson, vol. 1 (London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1962-64), 25-29.

Subsequent Note:

3. AuthorLastName, Book Title, Volume #:page #.

Example:

3. Lefebvre, The French Revolution, 1:48.

Bibliography:

AuthorLastName, FirstName MiddleInitial. Book Title: Subtitle of Book. Vol. #, Title of Volume. Edited by FirstName Initial. LastName,. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year.

Example

Lefebvre, Georges. The French Revolution. Vol. 1, From Its Origins to 1793. Edited by Elizabeth Moss Evanson. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1962-64.

Citing an Article or Chapter of a Multivolume Work (Sec. 14.120)

General Format

Full Note:

1. Author First Name/Initial Surname, "Title of Chapter or Article," in Book

Title: Subtitle (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year), Volume #:page #.

Example

1. David Holloway, “Nuclear Weapons and the Escalation of the Cold War, 1945–1962,”

in The Cambridge History of the Cold War, ed. Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad (Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 2010), 1:388.

Subsequent Note:

2. Author Surname, "Title of Chapter or Article," Volume #:page #.

Example:

2. Holloway, "Nuclear Weapons," 1:392.

Bibliography:

Author Surname, First Name. "Title of Chapter or Article." In Volume Title: Subtitle,

edited by Editor First Name Surname, page range of chapter.

Vol. volume # of Title of Multivolume Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year.

Example:

Holloway, David. “Nuclear Weapons and the Escalation of the Cold War, 1945–1962.”

In Origins, ed. Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad, 376-397. Vol. 1 of The

Cambridge History of the Cold War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.