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Citation Guide - Chicago Manual of Style Guide


Examples below are based on The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed., located at Z253 U69 2003 Info. Commons Ref.
(Earlier editions may be available in the Main Stacks for checkout under the same call number.)

Note the specific punctuation, indentation, and abbreviation.
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

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
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Author's last name, First name and Initial.  title italics.  Publication location:

Publishing company, Year.

example:

Townsend, Robert.  The Medieval Village EconomyPrinceton: Princeton University

Press, 1993.

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Book with an editor
CMS

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. 

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Journal article - one author
CMS

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.

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Journal article - 3 authors
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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.

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Newspaper article
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Author's last name, First name.  "Title of the article."  Newspaper Title italics [city,

if applicable] day month year, edition if applicable.: page numbers.

example:

Taylor, Paul.  "Keyboard Grief: Coping with Computer-Caused Injuries."  Globe and

Mail  [Toronto] 27 Dec. 1993: A1+

Note that according to the Chicago Manual of Style, citations to items in daily newspapers are made in the text, and are not necessary to mention in the reference list.

example:

In the article entitled "Keyboard Grief: Coping with Computer-Caused Injuries," published in the Globe and Mail, 27 December 1993, Paul Taylor noted that...

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Online article
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Author's last name, First name and Initial.  "Article title."  Article's original source

publication date: page numbers.  URL to first slash.

example:

Lanken, Dane. "When the Earth Moves." Canadian Geographic  March-April 1996: 66-73.

http://search.ebscohost.com/.

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.
Chicago style does not require including an access date. However, if your professor or publisher asks for this, include it in parentheses after the URL, for example, "(accessed July 8, 2005)."
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Lecture
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Author's last name, First name and Initial (if given).  "Title of the lecture."  The

meeting title. The sponsoring organization (if given). Location.  Day Month Year.

example:

Atwood, Margaret.  "Silencing the Scream."  Boundaries of the Imagination Forum,

MLA Convention. Royal York Hotel. Toronto.  29 Dec. 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...

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Interview
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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). Day, Month, 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., 10 October 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, date month year.  Location of the transcript if
applicable.

example:

Roemer, Merle A.  Interview by author.  Tape recording.  Millington, MD., 26 July 1973.

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Web site
CMS

Author's Last Name, First Name.  "Title of the web site."  Date Month Year of Publication.

URL.

example:  

Kehoe, Brendan P.   "Zen and the Art of the Internet."  January 1992,

http://freenet.buffalo.edu/~popmusic/zen10.txt.

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E-mail
CMS

Author's last name, first name.  E-mail to recipient's first and last name, date month year.

example:

Danford, Tom.  E-mail to Terry Craig, 13 September 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...

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Art Works
CMS

Works of art reproduced in a printed source (treat as book chapter)

Artist’s 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. Place of publication: publisher, date, page or plate/figure/slide number.

example: 

Cassatt, Mary. "Mother and Child," oil on canvas, c.1890 (Wichita Art Museum). In

American Painting: 1560-1913, by John Pearce. New York: McGraw, 1964, slide 22.


Works of art reproduced in electronic source

Artist’s 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 to first slash.

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.
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More Information & Examples
CMS

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 Citation Guide - from Ohio State University. Includes examples using both bibliography and in-text author-date style citations (Sciences) or footnotes-bibliography style (Arts, Literature, History).

Nuts and Bolts of College Writing: Chicago- from Michael Harvey's book of the same title

Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide - from the publisher's web site

Turabian Guides

Turabian Citation Guide (based on Chicago Style) - uses the newer parenthetical reference/reference list style. From Concordia University, Montreal

Turabian Citation Style - examples for a reference list. From C.W. Post Library

Turabian Style Guide (based upon Chicago Style) - created by University of Southern Mississippi

Turabian Samples for a Bibliography - examples using the traditional footnote/bibliography style. From Ithaca College

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