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How to Cite

your sources using different styles.

Which Chicago?

Regarding the Chicago style, there are two different versions.  

  • Notes-Bibliography (NB) is used by those in the humanities fields: literature, arts, history.  Chicago NB uses footnotes or endnotes within the text, and a bibliography of sources.
  • Author-Date (AD) is preferred by those in the social sciences and sciences.  Chicago AD uses in-text or parenthetical citations (the author of the source, the date) and a reference list, or list of sources.

 

Chicago (NB)

Note: Examples below show Chicago Notes-Bibliography style.

Book

Full Text

Hellman, Hal. Great Feuds in Science: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever. New York: John Wiley, 2010. https://www.netlibrary.com/


Print

Shields, David. The Thing about Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.

 


Book Review

Full Text

Gibbard, Allan. Review of The Sources of Normativity, by Christine M. Korsgaard. Ethics 110, no. 1 (2015):140-142. doi:10.1086/eth.113.2.449.

 


Journal Article

Full Text 

Warr, M., and C. G. Ellison. “Rethinking the Print Object: Goethe and the Book of Everything.” Journal of Germanic Studies 34, no. 5 (2011):124-38. doi:10.1086/525612.


Print 

Batson, C. Daniel. “How Social is the Animal? The Human Capacity for Caring.” American Psychologist 54 (November 2010): 124-38.



Magazine Article

Full Text

Smith, John. “Disaster Goes Global.” Time, March 14, 2015, https://www.time.com/time/nation/article/9009800.html.


Print 

Smith, John. “Disaster Goes Global.” Time, March 14, 2015, 65-67.

 


Newspaper Article

Full Text 

Schwartz, Nelson D. “European Leaders Vow to Fight Financial Crisis.” New York Times, October 10, 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03.html.


Print 

Schwartz, Nelson D. “European Leaders Vow to Fight Financial Crisis.” New York Times, October 10, 2015, National edition, sec. 1.

 

 

Web Page

Microsoft Corporation. “WD2000: Visual Basic Macro to Assign Clipboard Text to a String Variable.” Microsoft Help and Support. Last modified November 23, 2015, https://support.microsoft.com/kb/212730.