Chicago Manaul of Style Examples
The following are examples from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition. (If you want to print a copy of these examples, select the "Print Version" button.) Please note: that in Chicago Manual of Style, for the bibliography all lines except the first are indented 5 spaces. However, for endnotes and footnotes it is the opposite, only the first line is indented 5 spaces.
Use these examples to help you complete the exercise on the left.
| Books | Article in Edited Book | Journal/Magazine |
| Online Journal/Newspaper | Web Site | Interview |
| Statistical Source | Note Examples |
The following examples follow the notes and bibliography system, also called the “humanities system.” Author names are normally given as they appear on the title page of the books. In notes and bibliographies, titles of books, articles, and journal names are usually capitalized “headline style.” Headline style refers to the practice of capitalizing all major words both in titles and subtitles.
Book
1. Book with 1 author:
Author's last name, first name and initial. Title (italicized). Publication location: Publishing company, Year.
Example:
Townsend, Robert M. The Medieval Village Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
2. Book with 2 authors:
The authors' names are listed in the order used on the title page.
First Author's last name, first name, and Second Author's first name and last name. Title (italicized). Publication location: Publishing company, Year.
Example:
Gonzalez, Alfonso, and Jim Norwine. The New Third World. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998.
3. Book with 2 editors:
First Editor's last name, first name, and Second Editor's first name and last name, eds. Title (italicized). Publication location: Publishing Company, Year.
Example:
Tannen, Deborah, and James E. Alatis, eds. Languages and Linguistics: The Interdependence of Theory, Data, and Application. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1986.
Article / Chapter in an edited book
4. Article or chapter in a book with an editor:
Author's (of article or chapter) last name, first name. "Title of article or chapter." In Title of book (italicized), Edited by Editor's first and last name, inclusive page numbers. Publication location: Publishing company, Year.
Example:
Ong. Walter. J. "Oral Remembering and Narrative Structures." In Analyzing Discourse: Text and Talk, edited by Deborah Tannen, 271-279. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1982
Journal/Magazine
5. Article from journal with 1 author:
Author's last name, first name. "Article title." Journal Title (italicized) volume number, no. issue number (Month or season (if given) Year): page numbers.
Example:
Washington, Thomas. "Weeding: A Lament for the Loss of Books." Education Week 23, no. 14 (2003): 31-32.
6. Article from journal with 3 authors:
Author's last name, first name, Author's first name and last name, and Author's first name and last name. "Article title." Journal Title (italicized) 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.
7. Article from a Magazine:
Author's last name, first name. "Article Title." Magazine Title (italicized), Month (if given), Year, first page number.
Example:
Stein, Joel. "Just say Om." Time, Septmeber 4, 2003, 48.
Online Journal/Newspaper
The Chicago Manual of Style does not generally require an access date for electronic resources. However, an access date may be required by your publisher, instructor, or discipline. If this is the case, include it parenthetically at the end of the citation.
8. Online journal article from a database or index:
Author's last name, first name. "Article Title." Journal Title (italicized) volume number, no. issue number (Month or season (if given) Year: page numbers. URL of database's main page (use the information before the first slash /) (accessed month day, year).
Example:
Tolson, Nancy. "Making Books Available: The Role of Early Libraries, Librarians, and Booksellers in the Promotion of African American Children's Literature." African American Review. 32, no. 5 (1998): 9-17. http://web12.epnet.com/ (accessed October 1, 2002).
9. Online newspaper article from a database or index:
Author's last name, first name. "Article Title." Newspaper Title (italicized), Month Day, Year. URL. (accessed Month Day, Year).
Example:
Raspberry, William. " No Choice but Rescue." Washington Post, September 8, 2003. http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/ (accessed January 14, 2004).
Web Site
The Chicago Manual of Style does not generally require an access date for websites. However, an access date may be required by your publisher, instructor, or discipline. If this is the case, include it parenthetically at the end of the citation.
10. An entire website with an author:
Author's last name, first name . "Title of the web page," Title or owner of the web site (if given), URL (accessed Month Day, Year).
Example:
Mandell, Lewis. "Romantic chronology," University of California, Santa Barbara English Department Web site, http://english.ucsb.edu:591/rchrono/ (accessed June 22, 2003).
11. An entire website without an editor or author:
Owner of the web site (if given), "Title of the web site," URL (accessed Month Day, Year).
Example:
CNN, "CNN.com," http://www.cnn.com/ (accessed August 24, 2002).
12. An article, document, or short work from a website with an author
Author's last name, first name. "Title of article, document, or short work," Title or owner of web site (if given), URL (accessed Month Day, Year).
Example:
Shiva, Vandana. "Bioethics: A Third World Issue," NativeWeb, http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/shiva.html (accessed July 11, 2003).
13. An article, document, or short work from a website without an author
"Title of article, document, or short work," Title or owner of web site (if given), URL (accessed Month Day, Year).
Example:
"The Media Today: Truth or Lies?" Flashpoints USA, htttp://www.pbs.org/flashpointsusa/20030916/infocus/ (accessed September 14, 2003).
Interview
14. An interview conducted by you, the researcher:
Interviewee's last name, first name. Interviewed by (your name). Recording medium used. Month Day, Year of interview. Place where interview was conducted.
Example:
Snell, Carrie. Interview by Leslie Sult. Tape recording. April 18. 1993. University of Arizona.
Statistical Source
15. Chart from a statistical source - Statistical Abstracts
Author or Government agency's name. "Title of statistical table." Title of source (italicized). Publication location: Publisher, Year.
Example:
U.S. Census Bureau. " No. 173. Population shifts in the Northeast: 2001 - 2002." Statistical Abstract of the United States. Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2002
The following information is adapted from the 15th Edition of the Chicago Manual of Style (2003)
Creating Notes:
Notes should be created by use of the footnote or endnote function of the word processor. Keeping the notes embedded rather than placing them in a separate file makes it easier to add, delete, or renumber notes.
In a note an author's name is given in the normal order and the place of publication, publishing company, and year are all placed in parenthesis. Please note: for endnotes and footnotes only the first line is indented 5 spaces.
If the bibliography includes all works cited in the notes, the note citations—even the first citation to a particular work—can be quite concise, since readers can turn to the bibliography for publication details and other information.
Please see the following example:
First note citation in a work without a full bibliography:
Note number. Author first name and last name, Title (italicized), (Place of publication: Publishing company, Year), page number.
Example:
1. William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White, The Elements of Style, 4 th ed. ( New York : Allyn and Bacon, 2000), 3.
First note citation in a work with a full bibliography:
Note number. Author last name, Title (italicized), page number.
Example:
1. Strunk and White, The Elements of Style, 3.
Please see the following examples: These all follow the note citation style as it would appear without a full bibliography
Note number. Author First name and last name, Title (italicized) (Place of publication: Publishing company, Year), page number.
Example:
1. Robert M. Townsend, The Medieval Village Economy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993), 23.
Book with more than three authors:
Note number. Author first name and last name and others, Title (italicized) (Place of publication: Publishing company, Year), page number
Example:
2. Jeri A. Sechzer and others, Women and Mental Health (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 46.
No author:
If the author or editor is unknown, the note or bibliographic entry begins with the title.
Note number. Title (italicized) (Place of publication: Publishing company, Year), page number.
Example:
3. Stanze in lode della donna brutta (Florence , 1547), 6.
Article from newspaper with 1 author:
The month, day, and year are important elements of this citation. Page numbers are best omitted. If the paper is published in several sections, the section number or name may be given.
Note number. Author first name and last name, “Title of Article,” Title of Newspaper (italicized) , sec. number, Month, Day, Year.
Example:
4. Gretchen Morgenson, “Applying a Discount to Good Earnings News,” New York Times , sec. 3, April 23, 2000.
Article from journal with 1 author:
Note number. Author's first and last name, “Title of Article,” Journal Title (italicized) volume number, no. issue number (Month or Season (if given) Year): page number.
Example:
5. Thomas Washington, “Weeding: A Lament for the Loss of Books,” Education Week 23, no. 14 (2003): 31.
Sample Bibliography :
DeRose, Justin, Elfriede Fursich, and Ekaterina V. Haskins. "Pop (Up) Goes the Blind Date: Supertextual constraints on Reality Television. Journal of Communication Inquiry 27 no. 2 (2003): 171-189.
"Intro to HTML", HTML Basics, http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/96/53/index0a.html?tw=authoring (accessed September 10, 2003).
Street, Richard L. "Gender Differences in Health Care Provider-Patient Communication: Are They Due to Style, Stereotypes, or Accommodation?" Patient Education and Counseling 48 no. 3 (2002): 201-206. http://web22.epnet.com/externalframe.asp (accessed October 1, 2002).
For more extensive information on Chicago style, consult the print version of the Chicago Manual of Style located in the Information Commons Reference, call# Z253.U69 2003.
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