Subject Guides: Chicago Style Guide: 17th Edition: Four or More Authors or Editors

Book with More than Four Authors or Editors (Sec. 14.76)

If your resource has more than three editors instead authors, insert the names of the editors into the place where the names of the authors are now, followed by a comma and the word "eds." without the quotation marks.

For works by or edited by four to ten persons, list all names in the bibliography, but only list the name of the first author followed by "et al." with no intervening comma in the notes.

Notes
Bibliography

Full Note:

1. Author First Name/Initial Surname and others, Book Title: Subtitle

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

Example:

1. Jeri A. Sechzer et al., eds., Women and Mental Health (Baltimore:

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 243.

Subsequent Note:

2. Author Surname et al., Book Title, page #.

Example:

2. Sechzer et al., Women and Mental Health, 243.

Bibliography:

Author Surname, First Name/Initial, Author First Name/Initial Surname,

Author First Name Initial Surname, and Author First Name/Initial

Surname. Book Title: Subtitle. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year.

Example:

Sechzer, Jeri A., Sheila M. Pfaffilin, Florence L. Denmark, Anne Griffin,

and Susan J. Blumenthal, eds. Women and Mental Health. Baltimore:

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.