Further Help with Chicago Style
The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition. You will find this resource behind the reference desk on hte first floor of the library. This is a non-circulating resource.
This is a circulating resource available on the second floor under the call number Z253 .U69 2003
Chicago/ Turabian Examples and Bibliography Rules
The Chicago/ Turabian Citation Style
Chicago style is used by many different disciplines. The arts and humanities use the Notes Bibliography System (NB) and the social sciences use the Author Date System.
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This guide provides examles for the most common sources and general notes on bibliographies. For a more detailed citation guide see the Purdue OWL.
Citation Examples
Scholarly Journal Articles
For an article accessed through a library database or through the Web, include a URL. If the article is paginated, include a page number in the parenthetical citation and a page range in the reference list. For unpaginated articles, you may include a "locator," such as a numbered paragraph, instead of a page number. The locator follows the word under in your citation.
Basic Format for Reference List:
Author. Year. Title of article. Title of Journal Volume, no.: Pages. URL.
Example of Reference List:
Giersch, Anne, and Virginie Rhein. 2009. Lack of flexibility in visual grouping in patients with
schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 117 no. 1: 132-42.
http://web.ebscohost.com.
Example of Parenthetical Citation:
(Giersch and Rhein 2009, 139)
Magazine & Newspaper Articles
For an article accessed through a library database or through the Web, include a URL. If the article is paginated, include a page number in the parenthetical citation and a page range in the reference list. For unpaginated articles, you may include a "locator," such as a numbered paragraph, instead of a page number. The locator follows the word under in your citation.
Page numbers are not necessary for newspaper and magazine articles in the reference list. Use a section letter or number, if available. For an unsigned article, use the magazine or newspaper title in place of the author.
Basic Format for Reference List:
Author. Year. Title of article. Title of Magazine, Month Day. URL.
Example of Reference List:
Newsweek. 2009. Iran and America: An intersecting history. June 1.
http://web.ebscohost.com.
Example of Parenthetical Citation:
(Newsweek 2009, 38)
Book Reviews
For a review accessed through a library database or through the Web, include a URL. If the review is paginated, include a page number in the parenthetical citation and a page range in the reference list. For unpaginated reviews, you may include a "locator," such as a numbered paragraph, instead of a page number. The locator follows the word under in your citation.
Basic format for Reference List:
Author. Year. Review of Title of book, by Book Author. Title of Periodical Volume, no.: Pages.
Example of Reference List:
Taub, Richard P. 2004. Review of R eclaiming public housing: A half-century of struggle in three
public neighborhoods, by Lawrence J. Vale. American Journal of Sociology
110, no. 3: 797-99.
Example of Parenthetical Citation:
(Taub 2004)
Books
Basic Format for Reference List:
Author. Year. Title of book. Place of Publication: Publisher.
Example of Reference List:
Pollen, Michael. 2006. The omnivore’s dilemma: A natural history of four meals. New York:
Penguin Press.
Example of Parenthetical Citation:
(Pollen 2006, 75)
Part of a Book (Such as an Essay in a Collection)
Basic Format for Reference List:
Author. Year. Title of essay. In Title of collection, ed. by Editor Name, Pages of Essay.
Publication Place: Publisher.
Example of Reference List:
Demos, John. 2001. Real lives and other fictions: Reconsidering Wallace Stegner’s “Angle of
repose.” In Novel history: Historians and novelists confront America’s past (and
each other), ed. Mark C. Carnes, 132-45. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Example of Parenthetical Citation:
(Demos 2001, 141)
Websites
For sites without an author per se, use the publishing organization in place of the author.
Basic Format for Bibliography:
Author. Title of web site. Publishing Organization or Name of Web Site. URL.
Example of Bibliography:
Dominican University. Rosary College of Arts & Sciences. http//www.dom.edu/
academics/bsb/index.htm.
Example of Parenthetical Reference:
(Dominican University)
Bibliography Rules
• Each time you refer to one of your sources in the text of your paper, cite the source with a parenthetical citation that includes the author, publication year and page number: (Author Year, Page.)
• Parenthetical citations for direct quotations are inserted immediately after the quotation preceding a comma or period. After block quotations, though, the citation is inserted after the period. Otherwise, parenthetical citations are inserted at the end of a clause or sentence before the period.
• Also, include a list of all your sources. Start the list on a separate page at the end of your paper under the label References.
• Alphabetize the reference list by the first word in each entry (usually the author’s last name.) Single-space all entries, with double-spacing between entries. Make the first line of each entry flush with the margin. Subsequent lines in each entry should be indented one-half inch.
• Capitalize only the first letter of the first word of a book, article or web page title, the first word after a color or dash in the title, and proper nouns. Capitalize all major words in periodical titles.
• In a reference list entry for a source with 2 or more authors, invert (last name first) only the first author’s name. List all authors in the reference; do not use et al.
• In a parenthetical citation for a source with 4 or more authors, list only the first author's name followed byet al.
• Access dates for online sources are not required, but you should include an access date after the URL if the source is time-sensitive (like a news site)and/or if your instructor requires it.
This page was adapted from the Online Writing Lab at Purdue (http://owl.english.purdue.edu) and from Helen Long's (Dominican University) Turabian handout
