Chicago Style
Chicago Style
Chicago Style
Examples below are based on The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed., located at Z253 U69 2010 Info. Commons Ref. (Earlier editions may be available in the Main Stacks for checkout under the same call number.)
It is necessary to alphabetize a list of citations by author. Do not indent the first line. If the information wraps onto more than one line, indent the next line/s 5 spaces or 1/2 inch.
EXAMPLES for Bibliography (using Notes-Bibliography style) Book with one author | Book with an editor | Journal articles | Newspaper article | Online article | Lecture | Interview | Web site | E-mail | Art Works | More Information & Examples | Turabian Guides Book with one author CMoS
Author's last name, First name and Initial. Title italics. Publication location: Publishing company, Year. example: Townsend, Robert. The Medieval Village Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. ^ top Book with an editor Editor's last name, First name and Initial, ed. Title italics. Publication location: Publishing company, Year. example: Mcrae, Murdo William, ed. The Literature of Science: Perspectives on Popular Science Writing. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993. ^ top CMoS
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Author's last name, First name and Initial. "Title of the Article." Journal Title italics Volume number (Year): page numbers. example: Yeh, Michelle. "The 'Cult of Poetry' in Contemporary China." Journal of Asian Studies 55 (1996): 51-80. ^ top Journal article - 3 authors CMoS
Author's last name, First name, Author's First name and Last name, and Author's First name and Last name. "Title of the Article." Journal Title italics Volume number, no. issue number (Month or season (if given) Year): page numbers. example: White, Sabina, Andrew Winzelberg, and James Norlin. "Laughter and Stress." Humor 5, no. 3 (1992): 343-55. ^ top Newspaper article CMoS
Author's last name, First name. "Title of the article." Newspaper Title italics (city, if applicable) month day year, edition if applicable. URL (if consulted online) example: Greiner, Lynn. "Wrists on fire? Tech gear for what ails you." Globe and Mail (Toronto) January 27, 2011. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/ Note that according to the Chicago Manual of Style, citations to items in daily newspapers are more commonly made in the text, and need not be mentioned in the reference list. example:
In the article entitled "Wrists on fire? Tech gear for what ails you," published in the Globe and Mail , January 27, 2011, Lynn Greiner noted that... ^ top Online article CMoS
Author's last name, First name and Initial. "Article title." Article's original source publication date: page numbers. Access date (if required). DOI (Digital Object Identifier, if present) or URL. examples: Arnott, Gareth, and Robert W. Elwood. Assessment of fighting ability in animal contests. Animal Behaviour 77, no. 5 (2009): 991-1004. Accessed March 21, 2011. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.02.010. Bonner, W. Nigel. Environmental assessment in the Antarctic. Ambio 18, no.1 (1989): 83-39. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4313530 Daley, Beth. A Tale of a Whale: Scientists, Museum are Eager to Study, Display Rare Creature. Boston Globe, June 11, 2002, third edition. NewsBank Access World News (0206110256). Zimmer, Carl. DNA Studies Suggest Emperor Is Most Ancient of Penguins. New York Times, October 11, 2005, late edition. LexisNexis Academic. Note that it is always necessary to cite the original source of an article even if the article was retrieved from an on-line database or other such electronic source. DOI is preferred, but if not available, use the shortest, most stable form of the URL. For library databases, if no DOI or persistent URL is available, include the name of the database and, in parentheses, any identification number provided, if present. (CMoS 16, p.763) Chicago style does not require including an access date. However, if your professor or publisher asks for this, include it after the journal information or publication date, for example, "Accessed July 8, 2010." ^ top Lecture CMoS
Author's last name, First name and Initial (if given). "Title of the lecture." The meeting title. The sponsoring organization (if given). Location. Month Day Year. example: Atwood, Margaret. "Silencing the Scream." Boundaries of the Imagination Forum, MLA Convention. Royal York Hotel. Toronto. December 29, 1993. Note that if a lecture is unpublished and won't be published, it is necessary to only cite the lecture in the text. example: During a class lecture on December 12, 1998, Dr. L. Scott noted that... ^ top Interview If the interview is published and/or broadcast: Interviewee's last name, First name and Initial. "Title of the interview" (if given). Interview (if untitled) with interviewer's name. Radio, TV program, or Journal title. Program producers (if pertinent). Month, Day, Year, edition (if radio, TV, or periodical). Publication location: Publishing company, year (if given). Page numbers (if given). example: Gordimer, Nadine. Interview. New York Times, late ed., October 10, 1991. example: Lansbury, Angela. Interview. Off-Camera: Conversations with the Makers of Prime-Time Television, eds. Richard Levinson and William Link, New York: Plume-NAL, 1986. 82-86. If the interview is unpublished and/or unbroadcast: Interviewee's last name, First name. Interview by interviewer's first and last name. Interview format. Location, month day, year. Location of the transcript if applicable. CMoS
example: Roemer, Merle A. Interview by author. Tape recording. Millington, MD., July 26, 1973. ^ top Web site CMoS
Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of the web site." Month day, Year of Publication. URL. example: Kehoe, Brendan P. "Zen and the Art of the Internet." January 1992, http://freenet.buffalo.edu/~popmusic/zen10.txt. ^ top E-mail CMoS
Author's last name, first name. E-mail to recipient's first and last name, month day, year. example: Danford, Tom. E-mail to Terry Craig, September 13, 1993. Note that according to the Chicago Manual of Style, e-mail is regarded as personal communication, and therefore ultimately needs only to be cited in the text. example: In an e-mail memo to Terry Craig on the 13th of September, 1993, Tom Danford state that... ^ top Art Works CMoS
Works of art reproduced in a printed source (treat as book chapter) Artists last name, first name. "Title of art work," medium, date of art work (Institution where art work is housed (if known), city where housed if not already named). In Title of printed source italicized, by Author of printed source, page or plate/figure/slide number. Place of publication:
publisher, date. example: Cassatt, Mary. "Mother and Child," oil on canvas, c.1890 (Wichita Art Museum). In American Painting: 1560-1913, by John Pearce, slide 22. New York: McGraw, 1964. Works of art reproduced in electronic source Artists last name, first name. Title of art work, medium, date of art work (Institution where art work is housed (if known), city where housed if not already named). URL.
example: Monet, Claude. Meadow with Haystacks at Giverny, oil on canvas, 1885 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). http://www.artstor.org. Note that it is optional to give the date of the artwork. ^ top More Information & Examples CMoS
Here are summaries of changes and a quick guide from the publisher's web site: What's new in the 16th Edition Significant Rule Changes in the 16th Edition Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide Research and Documentation online: History (Diana Hacker) - gives examples for in-text notes and bibliography entries, along with a sample paper in Chicago style. Includes examples for many other types of material besides those shown above. Also includes guidelines on formatting a paper. Chicago Manual of Style - from Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL), this guide includes examples using the notes-bibliography format. Based on the new 16th edition. Chicago Manual of Style Notes-Bibliography System Style Guide Chicago Manual of Style Author-Date System Style Guide From Ohio State University. These guides include examples using both the footnotes-bibliography style (recommended in the arts, literature and history), and the bibliography and in-text author-date style citations
Turabian Guides Turabian Quick Guide - gives examples for two basic documentation systems, notes-bibliography style and parenthetical citationsreference list style. From the publisher's web site. Turabian Citation Guide (based on Chicago Style) - uses the newer parenthetical reference/reference list style. From Concordia University, Montreal. Turabian Style Guide (based upon Chicago Style) - created by University of Southern Mississippi. ^top MLA examples | APA examples | Subject Specific Citation Guides | Citation Guide Home The University of Arizona Libraries | 1510 E. University Blvd. | Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 | Tel 520.621.6406 | Fax 520.621.9733 webadmin@u.library.arizona.edu | Library Policies | Last modified: July 12,