Chicago Citation Generator for Book Chapters

The generator below is preset to Chicago (Chicago 18th edition) for a chapter in an edited book.

Check your reference against your institution's guidelines — lecturers sometimes vary the style.

Paste a URL, DOI, ISBN or title, or fill in the form yourself — the citation updates as you type, and you can copy it formatted, with italics and hanging indent intact, or as plain text. Under the tool you will find the Chicago rules for this source type, worked examples, and the mistakes students make most often.

The rules: Chicago format for book chapters

Template: Author, First Name. “Title of Chapter in Headline Style.” In Title of Book in Headline Style, edited by Editor Name and Editor Name, first page–last page. Publisher, Year.

The chapter author leads, inverted if they are the first-named author of the entry; the chapter title goes in quotation marks.
After the word “In” comes the book title in italics, then the editors’ names in normal order after “edited by”.
The chapter’s page range follows the editors, with an en dash and no pp. Then the publisher and year close the entry.
In text, cite the chapter author: (Nair 2022), or (Nair 2022, 95) for a page — never the editor.

Examples

Nair, Priya. “Working Memory in the Classroom.” In Advances in Learning Science, edited by James Whitfield and Rosa Delgado, 87–112. Northfield Press, 2022.

Ellery, Tom. “Note-Taking Systems That Work.” In Study Methods Handbook, edited by Karen Doyle, 45–66. Ashgrove Press, 2023.

Common mistakes

Citing the chapter under the book editor’s name.
Adding pp. before the chapter page range — Chicago does not use it here.
Italicising the chapter title instead of putting it in quotation marks.
Leaving the editors out — an edited book’s chapter entry is incomplete without them.

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