Begin your footnote or endnote citation with the name of the editor or a single author in a first name last format. Include “ed.” as the designation for a single editor and “eds.” for more than one editor.
Follow the name of the author with the title of a selection from the anthology in quotation marks if you use a single item. Underline the anthology title followed by the name of the editor in a first and last name format if you cite a selection from the anthology.
Enclose the publisher’s city, publisher name and year of publication in parentheses. Place the page number referenced in a printed format after the close parentheses. The correct format for citing the complete anthology in print appears as: Edgar V. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs, eds., Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, Third Edition (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992) 23.
The correct format for citing a selection from a printed anthology appears as: Steinbeck, John. “The Chrysanthemums.” Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, Third Edition. Edited by Roberts, Edgar V. and Henry E. Jacobs, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992. 347-354.
Follow the publishing information with access information if you found the anthology online. Include the date you accessed a web-based anthology in a date, month, year format. Enclose the URL in angle brackets. You have no page numbers for web-based anthologies. A sample entry appears as: Steinbeck, John. “The Chrysanthemums.” Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, Third Edition. Edited by Roberts, Edgar V. and Jacobs, Henry E. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992. 12 May 2011.
Start your citation with the editor name in a first and last name format if you reference the entire anthology. Begin the citation with the author name in a first and last format when citing a selection in an anthology or an anthology containing the works of a single author.
Place the name of the anthology selection in quotes. Follow the selection title with “in” and the anthology title. Place the title of the anthology in italics for the Chicago style. Underline the anthology title when using Turabian.
Enter the editor name in a first and last name format. Include the names of both editors if there are two, but designate three or more editors with the name of the first editor and “et al.” for the other editors.
Use parentheses to set off the publication city, publisher and year. Include page numbers outside the parenthesis following the publication information.
Verify the formatting as: John Steinbeck, “The Chrysanthemums” in Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, Third Edition. Edited by Edgar V. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992), 347-354.