Chicago Quick Reference Guide

Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) Citation

 

Printed Books

One author

For Footnotes or Endnotes:

  1. Full Name of Author, Title of book in italics (City of Publication (, State if uncommon city): Publisher, Year), Pagination.
  2. Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998), 64-66.
  3. Berlin, Many Thousands Gone, 198.
  4. ibid. (If exact same footnote/endnote as previous)

 

For Work Cited/Bibliography:

Author’s Last Name, First Name. Title of book in italics. City of Publication (, State if uncommon

city): Publisher, Year.

 

Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America.

Cambridge, MA:  The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.

 

Two or more authors

  1. Full Name of Author #1 and Full Name of Author #2, Title of book in italics (City of Publication (, State if uncommon city): Publisher, Year), Pagination.
  2. Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (New York: Ballantine Books, 1987), 23.
  3. X and Haley, 56-57.

 

Author #1’s Last Name, First Name and Full Nama of Author #2. Title of book in italics. City of

Publication (, State if uncommon city): Publisher, Year.

 

X, Malcolm and Alex Haley.  The Autobiography of Malcolm X.  New York: Ballantine Books,

1987.

 

Four or More Authors

For Footnote/Endnote:  list only the first author, followed by et al. (“and others”)

For Work Cited or Bibliography:  list all of the authors.

 

One author, edition other than first

  1. Full Name of Author, Title of book in italics, Edition Number. (City of Publication (, State if uncommon city): Publisher, Year), Pagination.

 

Author’s Last Name, First Name. Title of book in italics, Edition Number. City of Publication (,

State if uncommon city): Publisher, Year.

 

Chapter or article in a book

  1. Full Name of Author, “Title of chapter or article in quotations,” in Title of book in italics (City of Publication (, State if uncommon city): Publisher, Year), Pagination.

 

Author’s Last Name, First Name. “Title of chapter or article in quotations,” in Title of book in

italics, pagination. City of Publication (, State if uncommon city): Publisher, Year.

 

Chapter of an edited volume originally published elsewhere (as in primary source)

  1. Full Name of Author, “Title of chapter or article in quotations,” in Title of original book in italics, ed. Full name(s) of editor(s), vol. # of Title of edited book in italics, ed. Full name(s) of editors (City of Publication (, State if uncommon city): Publisher, Year), Pagination.

 

Author’s Last Name, First Name. “Title of chapter or article in quotations,” in Title of original book

in italics, edited by Full name(s) of editor(s).  Volume # of Title of edited book in italics, edited by Full name(s) of editors, pagination. City of Publication (, State if uncommon city): Publisher, Year.  Originally published in editor of original source, Title of primary source, vol. 1 (City of Publication (, State if uncommon city): Publisher, Year).

 

Book published electronically

For books found online in electronic form, list a URL; include an access date only if one is required by your publisher or discipline. If pagination is unavailable, you can include the section title or a chapter.

  1. Full Name of Author, Title of book in italics (City of Publication (, State if uncommon city): Publisher, Year), electronic source.
  2. Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998), Kindle edition.
  3. Berlin, Many Thousands Gone.

 

Author’s Last Name, First Name. Title of book in italics. City of Publication (, State if uncommon

city): Publisher, Year. Electronic source.

 

Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America.

Cambridge, MA:  The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.  Kindle edition.

 

 

Journal Articles

 

Article in a print journal paginated by issue

In a footnote/endnote, list the specific page numbers cited, if any. In the bibliography, list the pagination for the whole article.

 

  1. Full Name of Author, “Title of chapter or article in quotations,” in Title of Journal in italics (Year of Publication): Pagination.
  2. Last name, “Title of chapter or article in quotations,” pagination.

 

Author’s Last Name, First Name. “Title of chapter or article in quotations,” in in Title of Journal in

italics (Year of Publication): Pagination for whole article.

 

Article paginated by volume and accessed through an online database

Include a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) if the journal lists one. If no DOI is available, list a URL. Include an access date only if one is required.

  1. Full Name of Author, “Title of chapter or article in quotations,” in Title of book in italics, Volume Number (City of Publication (, State if uncommon city): Publisher, Year), Pagination.

 

Author’s Last Name, First Name. “Title of chapter or article in quotations,” in Title of book or

journal in italics, Volume Number (Year of Publication): Pagination. doi.

 

Article accessed through an online database, but no doi (digital object identifier) available

Shows author(s), date, title, journal, volume number, pages, and the home URL of the journal (which may require an online search to find)

 

Newspaper and magazine articles

Instead of in a footnote/note, newspaper and magazine articles can be cited in running text (“As Floyd Whaley noted in a New York Times article on April 12, 2016, . . .”), and they are commonly omitted from a bibliography. The following examples show the more formal versions of the citations. If from an online source, include a URL; include an access date only if required. Begin the citation with the article title if no author is identified.

 

Online magazine article

Shows author(s), issue date, title, magazine, volume (if available), issue (if available), and URL

  1. Full Name of Author, “Title of article in quotations,” in Title of Newspaper/magazine in italics, Date of Publication, date accessed if required, Pagination or URL.
  2. Last name of Author, “Title of chapter or article in quotations,” pagination, if any.
  3. Floyd Whaley, “U.S. and Philippines, United by China, Ramp Up Alliance,” in The New York Times, April 12, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/world/asia/philippines-south-china-sea-ash-carter.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0.

 

Author’s Last Name, First Name. “Title of article in quotations,” in in Title of Newspaper/magazine

in italics (Year of Publication): Pagination for whole article or URL.

 

Whaley, Floyd. “U.S. and Philippines, United by China, Ramp Up Alliance,” in The New York

Times, April 12, 2006.  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/world/asia/philippines-south-china-sea-ash-carter.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0.

 

Websites

Instead of in a footnote/note, websites can be mentioned in running text (“As of April 12, 2016, Congregation Beth Hakneses Hachodosh listed on its website…”).  If a more formal citation is required, please see the examples below. Because such content is subject to change, include an access date or, if available, a date that the site was last modified.

 

For more examples and details, see http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html

Verdis Robinson, History Faculty