Writing question for srPilot

[sadangel]

I have an honest question for you Pilot. I know you have the most recent CMOS and I need to know some answers from it please.

When writing a formal paper, or perhaps to write a book, how does a writer do the following:

I need to reference a book title and the author. For instance. "Turn Green" by Puke Harold. How do I do the title of the book? Is it with "quotations" or as bold or italicize? Also, how would I reference the authors name of that book? Would that be normal type or would it be bolded or italicized and would it be in [brackets] or (Parentheses)?

Also, would it be right after the section I am quoting of them, and then I give that information, or would I quote them and add a "footnote number" (Subscript I think or is that superscript?) and then put a footnote at the bottom of the page?

I know I could go all over the internet to find an answer, but since I know you have the CMOS at the ready, I thought I'd ask and get a direct answer that comes from the most recent CMOS.

This is how I've been doing it:

Turn green he said in anger.

[Turn Green by Puke Harold]

I am asking because I am writing a formal paper that will be referencing a number of books and authors and will be using quotes. I will of course be doing a bibliography of the books at the end with all the necessary information. The paper may turn into an online book instead (Think PDF) at some point. I don't know if the way it's done would be the same or different depending on the format of how it goes to print.

Thanks Pilot.

 

[sr71plt]

In the text, the book title is italics (an article title would be in double quotes), the author's name just in regular roman. If there aren't going to be many references, it's best to work the author's name and the work tile into the text, with the page number in parentheses at the end of the quote, e.g.,:

As Max Snell wrote in From Hell and Back, ["quote" (page number).]

If there are quite a few, the reference is done in an endnote section (at the end of the book) or footnotes at the bottom of the page, both indexed to superscripted numbers. (Everyone tries their best to use the endnote style now).

The endnotes woud be numbered and identified by chapter in the endnote section, with basic format being:

number (not superscripted) [period] first name and last name [comma] work title in italics [open parenthesis] publishing city/state, abbreviated [colon] publishing house name [comma] year [close parenthesis] [comma] inclusive page numbers [period]

subsequent references could just be: last name [comma] inclusive page numbers--or ibid. if the information is identical to the previous note.

That's just the basic; there are variations depending on other factors.

The bibliography entry (entries alphabetized) for a book would be:

last name [comma] first name [period] work title in italics [period] publishing city/state, abbreviated [colon] publishing house name [comma] year [period]

If you have a mix of book references and articles, Interent URLs, you really need to consult chapters 14 and 15 of the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition. If you can only find the 15th edition, its chapters 16 and 17 are virtually identical.

 

[sadangel]

Thank you! That helps tremendously, and in my first draft of this, I already did an end-note style of pages, so this will make it much easier to do that. I don't have access at the moment to any CMOS, and knew you did...so thank you for answering. This will help SO much.

Again. Thank you. I figured, somebody else may one day have this question, so why not ask it out in public. Thanks again!