18th Chicago not writing "eds." for multiple editors

I've been trying to update it myself for a custom style, but failing. I'm using the citation style "Chicago Manual of Style 18th edition (notes and bibliography)", but whenever a volume has multiple editors, it simple writes "ed." instead of "eds". Any help would be appreciated!
  • Can you give an example? I'm not seeing this but may depend on the exact data of an item.
  • edited March 17, 2026
    These are some examples of citations which have been giving me issues. Now that I'm looking more into it, it seems to only be happening with book sections:

    Jenny Blain and Robert J. Wallis, “Heathenry,” in Handbook of Contemporary Paganism, ed. Murphy Pizza and James R. Lewis, Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion 2 (Brill, 2009).

    Jefferson Calico, “Performing ‘American Völkisch,’” in Paganism and Its Discontents: Enduring Problems of Racialized Identity, ed. Holli S. Emore and Jonathan M. Leader (Cambridge Scholars Publisher, 2020).

    Other entries with multiple editors seem to be correctly formatted:
    Trevor Stack et al., eds., Religion as a Category of Governance and Sovereignty, vol. 3, Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion (Brill, 2015).

    Aaron W. Hughes and Russell T. McCutcheon, eds., What Is Religion?: Debating the Academic Study of Religion (Oxford University Press, 2022), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190064976.001.0001.

    I was able to create a temporary workaround by copying the citation guide and editing line 46 to read:
    https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u15932552/dg25awl837qglrhmx3lh.png

    I'm not sure if this is a permanent fix, however.
  • Right, that's not "editors" but "edited by" abbreviated so doesn't take a plural form and is correct Chicago Manual, see e.g. the chapter example on

    https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html


    1. Kathleen Doyle, “The Queen Mary Psalter,” in The Book by Design: The Remarkable Story of the World’s Greatest Invention, ed. P. J. M. Marks and Stephen Parkin (University of Chicago Press, 2023), 64.
  • Thank you for the help!
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