Chicago Style Guide: Quick Reference
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The Chicago Manual of Style describes a consistent manner of citing references when writing a research paper. This guide serves as a summary of the most frequently consulted citations as they appear in The Chicago Manual of Style. This guide by no means replaces consultation of the manual itself; rather it provides only the more common citations. The manual may be found in the Reference collection as well as online. Its official title is The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition and the call number is Z253.U69 2010.
For additional help and guidance, you may consult Kate L. Turabian’s A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers, 7th ed., which can also be found in both the Reference and circulating collections, call number LB2369 .T8 2007.
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Examples of a Bibliography Using The Chicago Manual of Style
The Chicago Manual of Style uses two styles of documentation: notes and bibliography or text citations and reference list. This guide will provide examples of the notes and bibliography style. For more details and many more examples, see Chapter 14 of The Chicago Manual of Style. For examples of “The Author-Date System” used in the text citations and reference list style please refer to the Manual, p. 785-810.
The bibliography begins on a separate page and appears at the end of your paper. The bibliography lists every work you have cited in your notes and may include particularly relevant works you consulted but did not cite directly. In each of the examples below, the first entry shows how the note would look in the paper. The next entry is an example of a subsequent note on the same work, followed by an example of the bibliographic entry.
ELECTRONIC ARTICLES
Journal, Magazine, and Newspaper Articles Retrieved Online
Journal, Magazine, and Newspaper Articles Retrieved from a Database
BOOKS
PRINT ARTICLES
Article in an online journal
Include a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) if the journal lists one. A DOI is a permanent ID that, when appended to http://dx.doi.org/ in the address bar of an Internet browser, will lead to the source. If no DOI is available, list a URL. Include an access date only if one is required by your publisher or discipline.
1. Gueorgi Kossinets and Duncan J. Watts, "Origins of Homophily in an Evolving Social Network," American Journal of Sociology 115 (2009): 411, accessed February 28, 2010, doi:10.1086/599247.
2. Kossinets and Watts, "Origins of Homophily," 439.
Kossinets, Gueorgi, and Duncan J. Watts. "Origins of Homophily in an Evolving Social Network." American Journal of Sociology 115 (2009): 405–50. Accessed February 28, 2010. doi:10.1086/599247.
Online magazine or newspaper article
Newspaper and magazine articles may be cited in running text ("As Sheryl Stolberg and Robert Pear noted in a New York Times article on February 27, 2010, ...") instead of in a note, and they are commonly omitted from a bibliography. The following example shows the more formal version of the citation. If you consulted the article online, include a URL; include an access date only if your publisher or discipline requires one. If no author is identified, begin the citation with the article title.
1. Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Robert Pear, "Wary Centrists Posing Challenge in Health Care Vote," New York Times, February 27, 2010, accessed February 28, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/us/politics/28health.html.
2. Stolberg and Pear, "Wary Centrists."
Stolberg, Sheryl Gay, and Robert Pear. "Wary Centrists Posing Challenge in Health Care Vote." New York Times, February 27, 2010. Accessed February 28, 2010. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/us/politics/28health.html.
Book published electronically
If a book is available in more than one format, cite the version you consulted. For books consulted online, list a URL; include an access date only if one is required by your publisher or discipline. If no fixed page numbers are available, you can include a section title or a chapter or other number.
1. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (New York: Penguin Classics, 2007), Kindle edition.
2. Austen, Pride and Prejudice.
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. New York: Penguin Classics, 2007. Kindle edition.
1. Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner, eds., The Founders' Constitution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), accessed February 28, 2010, http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/.
2. Kurland and Lerner, Founders' Constitution, chap. 10, doc. 19.
Kurland, Philip B., and Ralph Lerner, eds. The Founders' Constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Accessed February 28, 2010. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/.
Online book review
1. David Kamp, "Deconstructing Dinner," review of The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan, New York Times, April 23, 2006, Sunday Book Review, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/23/books/review/23kamp.html.
2. Kamp, "Deconstructing Dinner."
Kamp, David. "Deconstructing Dinner." Review of The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan. New York Times, April 23, 2006, Sunday Book Review. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/23/books/review/23kamp.html.
Online encyclopedia article
1. Encyclopedia Americana, s.v. "Melville, Herman,' accessed May 2, 2011, http://go.grolier.com/.
2. "Melville, Herman."
"Melville, Herman." In Encyclopedia Americana. Grolier Online, 2011. Accessed May 2, 2011.
Entire Website
A citation to website content can often be limited to a mention in the text or in a note ("As of July 19, 2008, the McDonald's Corporation listed on its website ..."). If a more formal citation is desired, it may be styled as in the examples below. Because such content is subject to change, include an access date or, if available, a date that the site was last modified.
1. "Google Privacy Policy," last modified March 11, 2009, http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html.
2. "Google Privacy Policy."
Google. "Google Privacy Policy." Last modified March 11, 2009. http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html.
1. "McDonald's Happy Meal Toy Safety Facts," McDonald's Corporation, accessed July 19, 2008, http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/about/factsheets.html.
2. "Toy Safety Facts."
McDonald's Corporation. "McDonald's Happy Meal Toy Safety Facts." Accessed July 19, 2008. http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/about/factsheets.html.
Include the standard information for a print article, along with the URL and the access date.
1. Robert Brent Toplin, "The Filmmaker as Historian," American Historical Review 93, no. 5 (1988): 1220, http://www.jstor.org/ (accessed June 13, 2008).
2. Toplin, "Filmmaker," 1224
Toplin, Robert Brent. "The Filmmaker as Historian." American Historical Review 93, no. 5 (1988): 1210-27. http://www.jstor.org/ (accessed June 13, 2008).
Book by one author
1. Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (New York: Penguin, 2006), 99–100.
2. Pollan, Omnivore's Dilemma, 3.
Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. New York: Penguin, 2006.
Book by two authors
1. Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, The War: An Intimate History, 1941–1945 (New York: Knopf, 2007), 52.
2. Ward and Burns, War, 59–61.
Ward, Geoffrey C., and Ken Burns. The War: An Intimate History, 1941–1945. New York: Knopf, 2007.
Edited, translated or compiled work without an author
1. M. Mohamed Salih, ed., African Parliament: Between Governments and Governance (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 59-60.
2. Salih, African Parliament, 75.
Salih, M. Mohamed, ed. African Parliament: Between Governments and Governance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Edited, translated, or compiled work with an author
A translator's name, like an editor's, is placed after the title when an author's name is given. If a source has an editor and a translator, then list both.
1. Efraim Karsh, Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923, ed. Inari Karsh (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999), 303-4.
2. Karsh, Empires of the Sand, 315.
Karsh, Efraim. Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923. Edited by Inari Karsh. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,1999.
Article or chapter in an edited work
1. Bernard Hamilton, "The Impact of the Crusades on Western Geographical Knowledge," in Eastward Bound: Travel and Travelers, 1050-1550, ed. Rosamund Allen (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004), 18
2. Hamilton, "Impact of the Crusades," 23
Hamilton, Bernard, "The Impact of the Crusades on Western Geographical Knowledge." In Eastward Bound: Travel and Travelers, 1050-1550, edited by Rosamund Allen, 15-34. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004.
Anonymous work (no known author, editor, or compiler)
1. History of Organized Felony and Folly (Whitefish, MT: Kessinger, 2003), 83.
2. History of Organized Felony, 95.
History of Organized Felony and Folly. Whitefish, MT: Kessinger, 2003.
Journal article
1. Joshua I. Weinstein, "The Market in Plato's Republic," Classical Philology 104 (2009): 440.
2. Weinstein, "Plato's Republic," 452–53.
Weinstein, Joshua I. "The Market in Plato's Republic." Classical Philology 104 (2009): 439–58.
Magazine or newspaper article
Newspaper and magazine articles may be cited in running text ("As Sheryl Stolberg and Robert Pear noted in a New York Times article on February 27, 2010, ...") instead of in a note, and they are commonly omitted from a bibliography. The following examples show the more formal versions of the citations.
1. Daniel Mendelsohn, "But Enough about Me," New Yorker, January 25, 2010, 68.
2. Mendelsohn, "But Enough about Me," 69.
Mendelsohn, Daniel. "But Enough about Me." New Yorker, January 25, 2010.
Newspaper article, no author
1. "In Texas, Ad Heats Up Race for Governor," New York Times, July 30, 2002.
New York Times. "In Texas, Ad Heats Up Race for Governor." July 30, 2002.
Review of a book
1. Stanley Rosen, review of Mao's Last Revolution, by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals, American Historical Review 112 (2007): 805.
Rosen, Stanley. Review of Mao's Last Revolution, by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals. American Historical Review 112 (2007): 804-6.