Examples of Chicago-Style Documentation
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The Chicage Manual of Style outlines two documentation systems, the humanities style (notes and bibliography) and the author-date system. We require the author-date system in the Senior Sequence. You can purchase this manual at the UCSD Bookstore, or refer to it at the Geisel Library reference desk.

Below are some common examples of materials cited in the author-date style (an in-text citation followed by a reference-list entry). For numerous specific examples, see chapters 16 and 17 of The Chicago Manual of Style, fifteenth edition. If you want to add footnotes in your thesis, you can do so. Please see this note of explanation about the pros and cons of footnotes, click here.

CONTENTS

Book with one author
Book with two authors
Book with more than three authors
Editor, translator, or compiler
Chapter or other part of a book
Chapter of an edited volume originally published elsewhere (common for primary sources)
Preface, foreword, introduction, and similar parts of a book
Book published in both printed and electronic forms
Journal article
Article in an electronic journal
Popular magazine article
Newspaper article
Book review
Theses and dissertations
Paper presented at a meeting or conference
Personal communications

Book with one author

(Doniger 1999)

Doniger, Wendy. 1999. Splitting the difference. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Book with two authors

(Cowlishaw and Dunbar 2000)

Cowlishaw, Guy, and Robin Dunbar. 2000. Primate conservation biology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Book with more than three authors

(Laumann et al. 1994)

Laumann, Edward O., John H. Gagnon, Robert T. Michael, and Stuart Michaels. 1994. The social organization of sexuality: Sexual practices in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Editor, translator, or compiler

(Lattimore 1951)

Lattimore, Richmond, trans. 1951. The Iliad of Homer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Chapter or other part of a book

(Twaddell 1957, 85-87)

Twaddell, W. Freeman. 1957. A note on Old High German umlaut. In Readings in linguistics I: The development of descriptive linguistics in America, 1925-1956. 4th ed. Edited by Martin Joos. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Chapter of an edited volume originally published elsewhere (common for primary sources)

(Cicero 1986, 33)

Cicero, Quintus Tullius. 1986. Handbook on canvassing for the consulship. In Rome: Late republic and principate, edited by Walter Emil Kaegi Jr. and Peter White. Vol. 2 of University of Chicago readings in western civilization, edited by John Boyer and Julius Kirshner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Originally published in Evelyn S. Shuckburgh, trans., The letters of Cicero, vol. 1 (London: George Bell & Sons, 1908).

Preface, foreword, introduction, and similar parts of a book

(Rieger 1974)

Rieger, James. 1974. Introduction to Frankenstein, or The modern Prometheus, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Book published in both printed and electronic forms (N.B.: be sure that it is clear which form was consulted; however, there is no need to indicate "paper" in a citation to a traditional bound book)

(Kurland and Lerner 1987, 115)

Kurland, Philip B., and Ralph Lerner, eds. 1987. The Founders' Constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Also available online at http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/ and as a CD-ROM.

Journal article

(Smith 1998, 639-40)

Smith, John Maynard. 1998. The origin of altruism. Nature 393: 639-40.

Article in an electronic journal (N.B.: an access date, not generally required by Chicago, may be required by your publisher or discipline; if so, include it parenthetically at the end of the citation, as in the fourth example below)

(Hlatky et al. 2002)

Hlatky, Mark A., Derek Boothroyd, Eric Vittinghoff, Penny Sharp, and Mary A. Whooley. 2002. Quality-of-life and depressive symptoms in postmenopausal women after receiving hormone therapy: Results from the Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Study (HERS) trial. Journal of the American Medical Association 287, no. 5 (February 6), http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v287n5/rfull/joc10108.html#aainfo (accessed January 7, 2002).

Popular magazine article

(Martin 2002, 84)

Martin, Steve. 2002. Sports-interview shocker. New Yorker, May 6, 84.

Newspaper article

Chicago style is for newspaper citations to be made in running text, not in parenthetical notes:

As William Niederkorn noted in a New York Times article on June 20, 2002, . . .

If the article is cited in the reference list, it would look like this:

Niederkorn, William S. 2002. A scholar recants on his "Shakespeare" discovery. New York Times, June 20, Midwest edition.

Book review

(Gorman 2002, 16)

Gorman, James. 2002. Endangered species. Review of The last American man, by Elizabeth Gilbert. New York Times Book Review, June 2, 16.

Theses and dissertations

(Amundin 1991, 22-29, 35)

Amundin, M. 1991. Click repetition rate patterns in communicative sounds from the harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena. Ph.D. diss., Stockholm University.

Paper presented at a meeting or conference

(Doyle 2002)

Doyle, Brian. 2002. Howling like dogs: Metaphorical language in Psalm 59. Paper presented at the annual international meeting for the Society of Biblical Literature, June 19-22, in Berlin, Germany.

Personal communications

In an e-mail message to the author on October 31, 2002, John Doe revealed that . . .

Or the reference may be given in a note:

1. John Doe, e-mail message to author, October 31, 2002.

E-mail messages, letters, and the like are rarely listed in a bibliography or reference list. Note that individuals' e-mail addresses should be omitted.

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ON THE USE OF FOOTNOTES

The section below (16.19 to 16.22 was copied from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, p. 599)

16:19

Footnotes versus endnotes in printed works. Footnotes are properly so called when they appear at the foot of a page. In a journal, endnotes appear at the end of an article; in a book, at the end of a chapter or, more commonly be­ cause easier to locate, at the back of the book. (In multiauthor books, where the notes may differ in kind and length, and where chapters may be reprinted separately; they are usually placed at the end of the chapter to which they pertain.)

16.20

Creating notes. Notes should be created by use of the footnote or endnote function of the word processor. In manuscript they may appear either as footnotes or as endnotes to an article or chapter, regardless of how they will appear in the published version. Keeping the notes embedded rather than placing them in a separate file makes it easier to add, delete, or renumber notes.

16.21

Footnotes: virtues. Readers of scholarly works usually prefer footnotes for ease of reference. Where the notes are closely integrated into the text and make interesting reading, they belong at the foot of the page. They also be­ long there if immediate knowledge of the sources is essential to readers.

16. 22

Footnotes: vices. In a work containing many long footnotes, it may be difficult to fit them onto the pages they pertain to, especially in an illustrated work. A basic requirement for all footnotes is that they at least be­ gin on the page on which they are referenced. Several long footnotes with their references falling close together toward the end of a page present a major problem in page makeup.