Chicago Style of Referencing
This guide (courtsy to COATES Library) provides basic guidelines and examples for citing sources using The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition.
Books
Book: One Author |
Format: Author Last, First. Year of Pub. Title. Location of Publisher: Publisher. Sample Citation: Welch, Kathleen E. 1999. Electric Rhetoric: Classical Rhetoric, Oralism, and a New Literacy. Cambridge: MIT Press. |
Book: Two or More Authors |
Format: Author Last, First, and Author First Last. Year of Pub. Title. Location of Publisher: Publisher. [Note: If a book is credited to 4 or more authors, include all authors in the bibliographic citation. In the parenthetical citation, include the first author’s name only followed by “et al.”] Sample Citation: Lunsford, Andrea, and Lisa Ede. 1990. Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. Patten, Michael A., Guy McCaskie, and Philip Unitt. 2003. Birds of the Salton Sea: Status, Biogeography, and Ecology. Berkeley: University of California Press. |
Electronic Book |
Format: Author Last, First. Year of Publication. Title. Location of Publisher: Publisher. URL. Sample Citation: Welch, Kathleen E. 1999. Electric Rhetoric: Classical Rhetoric, Oralism, and a New Literacy. Cambridge: MIT Press. http://www.netlibrary.com. |
Chapter in a Book |
Format: Author Last, First. Year of Pub. “Title of Chapter/Article.” In Title, edited by First Last, inclusive page numbers. Location of Publisher: Publisher, Year. Sample Citation: Wells, Ida B. 1995. “Lynch Law in All its Phases.” In with Pen and Voice: A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century African-American Women, edited by Shirley Wilson Logan, 80-99. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. |
Translated Book |
Format: Original Author Last, First. Year of Publication. Title. Translated by First Name Last. Location of Publisher: Publisher. Sample Citation: Eisenstein, Sergei. 1968. Film Sense. Translated by Jay Leyda. London: Faber and Faber. |
Journals
Journal Article: |
Format: Author Last, First. Year of Pub. “Title.” Journal Name volume # (issue #): inclusive page numbers. Sample Citation: Haraway, Donna J. 1994. “A Game of Cat's Cradle: Science Studies, Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies.” Configurations 2 (1): 59-71. |
Journal Article: Two or More Authors
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Format: Author Last, First, and Author First Last. Year of Pub. “Title.” Journal Name volume # (no. issue #): inclusive page numbers. [Note: See the note under “Books: Two or More Authors” for more information for formatting the names of multiple authors.] Sample Citation: Gautreau, Ronald, and Jeffrey M. Cohen. 1997. “Birth and Death of a Black Hole.” American Journal of Physics 65 (3): 444-446. Pridmore, William, Mitchell Chamlin, and Adam Trahan. 1997. “A Test of Competing Hypotheses about Homicide Following Terrorist Attacks: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis of September 11 and Oklahoma City.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 24 (4): 381-96. |
Journal Article: From a Full-Text Database |
Format: Author Last, First. Year of Pub. “Title.” Journal Name volume # (issue #): inclusive page numbers if available. URL or doi number. Sample Citation: Ferrell, Robert H. 1990. “Truman's Place in History.” Reviews in American History 18 (1): 1-9.http://www.jstor.org/stable/2702718. |
Journal Article: Online |
Format: Author Last, First. Year of Publication. “Title.” Journal Name volume #, no. issue # (Month Day of Pub): inclusive page numbers. URL. [Note on page numbers: If online articles do not include page numbers, leave this space blank in the citation. See the sample.] Sample Citation: Jobe, Karen D. 2000. “Women and the Language of Hackerdom: The Gendered Nature of Hacker Jargon.” Kairos 5, (2). http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/5.2/binder.html?coverbweb/jobe/ women&hackerdom.htm. |
Magazines
Magazine Article: |
Format: Author Last, First. Year of Pub. “Title.” Magazine Name, Month Day. [Note: Chicago Notes style does not require page numbers for a magazine article. Page numbers should be included in parenthetical citations.] Sample Citation: Swartz, Mimi. 2002. “An Enron Yard Sale.” New Yorker, May 6. |
Magazine Article: Two Authors
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Format: Author Last, First, and Author First Last. Year of Pub. “Title.” Magazine Name, Month Day. Sample Citation: Silver, Marc, and James M. Pethokoukis. 2002. “Attack of the Cloned Light Sabers.” U.S. News & World Report, May 13. |
Magazine Article: from a Full-Text Database |
Format: Author Last, First. Year of Pub. “Title.” Magazine Name, Month Day. URL or doi. Sample Citation: Swartz, Mimi. 2002. “An Enron Yard Sale.” New Yorker, May 6. http://search.ebscohost.com. |
Magazine Article: Online |
Format: Author Last, First. Year of Publication. “Title.” Magazine Name, Month Day. URL. Sample Citation: Leonard, Andrew. 2005. “Embracing the Dark Side of the Brand.” Salon, May 18.http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2005/05/18/star_wars_lego/index.np.html. |
Newspapers
Newspaper Article: |
Format: Author Last, First. Year of Publication. “Title.” Newspaper Name, Month Day of Publication. [Note: Chicago Notes style does not require page numbers for a newspaper article. Page numbers should be included in parenthetical citations.] Sample Citation: Lewin, Tamar. 2003. “Disability Requests Reflect Changes in SAT Procedure.” New York Times, November 8. |
Newspaper Article: from a
Full-Text Database |
Format: Author Last, First. Year of Publication. “Title.” Newspaper Name, Month Day of Pub. URL. Sample Citation: Flores, Matt. 2001. “San Antonio, Texas-Area Business Students Manage Real Portfolio.” San Antonio Express-News, December 18. http://search.ebscohost.com. |
Newspaper Article: Online |
Format: Author Last, First. Year of Publication. “Title.” Newspaper Name, Month Day of Publication. URL. Sample Citation: Mapes, Lynda V. 2005. “Unearthing Tse-whit-zen.” Seattle Times, May 25. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/local/klallam/index.html. |
Electronic Sources
Multi-Page Internet Site: Entire Site |
Format: Last Name, First of Author. Year of Pub. Title of Site. Last modified or Accessed Month Day, Year. URL. Sample Citation: Weissmann, Anne. 2006. Ernest Haeckel: Art Forms in Nature. Accessed January 14, 2007. http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org/haeckel/index.html. |
Multi-Page Internet Site: Single Page on Site |
Format: Author Last, First. Year of Publication. "Title of Page." Name of provider if different from author. Last modified or Accessed Month Day, Year. URL. Sample Citation: Sun, Yee-Fan. 2005. "Shacking Up.” Digs Magazine. Accessed March 2, 2005. http://www.digsmagazine.com/lounge/lounge_shackingup.htm. |
Multi-Page Internet Site: Corporate Author
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Format: Corporate Author Name. Year of Publication. Title of Site. Last modified or Accessed Month Day, Year. URL. Sample Citation: Miller Center of Public Affairs. 2005. American President. Last modified 2010. http://www.americanpresident.com. |
For further information on citing sources using the Chicago author-date style, see The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition.