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Turabian: Citing Books and Parts of Books

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Katie Buehner
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Subjects: Dance, Music, Theatre Arts
Book with single author (Turabian 17.1)

Bibliography -----

Author Last Name, Author First Name. Title of book. Publication location: Publisher,
     Date of Publication.

Getz, Christine Suzanne. Music in the Collective Experience in Sixteenth-Century
     Milan. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005.

Notes -----

     1. Author First Name Author Last Name, Title of book (Publication location: Publisher, Date of Publication), page numbers.

     1. Christine Suzanne Getz, Music in the Collective Experience in Sixteenth-Century Milan 
(Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005), 35.

Book with multiple authors (Turabian 17.1)

Bibliography -----

Author Last Name, First Name and 2nd Author First Name Last Name. 
   Title of book. Publication location: Publisher, Date of Publication.  

Hepokoski, James and Warren Darcy. Elements of Sonata Theory: norms, types,
   and deformations in the late eighteenth-century sonata. New York: Oxford University
   Press, 2006.

Notes -----

     1. Author First Name Author Last Name and Author First Name Author Last Name, Title of book
(Publication location: Publisher, Date of Publication), page numbers.

     1. James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy, Elements of Sonata Theory: norms, types, and deformations
in the late eighteenth-century sonata (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 46.

Chapter or other parts of a book  (Turabian 17.1.8)

Bibliography -----

Author Last Name, Author First Name. "Book chapter." In Title of book, translated OR
   edited by First Name Last Name, page range. Publication location: 
   Publisher, Date of Publication.

Weber, William. "The History of Musical Canon." In Rethinking Music, edited by
   Nicholas Cook and Mark Everist, 336-355. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Notes -----

     1. Author First Name Author Last Name, "Book chapter" in Title of Book, ed. OR trans. First Name Last Name (Publication location: Publisher, Date of Publication), page nos.

   1. William Weber, "The History of Musical Canon" in Rethinking Music, eds. Nicholas Cook
and Mark Everist (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 340.

Book with editor or translator as author (Turabian 17.1.1.2)

Bibliography -----

Author Last Name, Author First Name, eds. OR trans. Title of book.
   Publication location: Publisher, Date of Publication.

Wierzbicki, James, Nathan Platte and Colin Rost, eds. The Routledge Film Music
   Sourcebook.New York: Routledge, 2012.

Notes -----

      1. Author First Name Author Last Name, eds. OR trans.Title of book,
(Publication location: Publisher, Date of Publication), page numbers.

    1. James Wierzbicki, Nathan Platte and Colin Rost, eds. The Routledge Film
Music Sourcebook (New York: Routledge, 2012), 70.