Chicago Style Manual Citation Exercise

Your last name:

First name:

Instructor's name:

This Web exercise will give you practice using Chicago Manual of Style for citations.

Use the Chicago Manual of Style Examples on the right to help you complete this exercise.

When you are finished, submit your answers. If you are doing this as part of a class assignment, make a printout of the answer sheet for your professor.

1. You need to cite a book that you read. The author is William K. Klingaman and the title is Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation. The book was published in 2001 by Viking Press in New York.

The correct way to cite this book in your bibliography is (see Chicago style Examples #1, Book):

a. Klingaman, William. K. Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation. New York: Viking Press, 1993.

b. Klingaman, William K. Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation. New York: Viking Press, 1993.

c. Klingaman, William K. 1993. Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation. New York: Viking Press.

2. You want to include in your bibliography an article or a book written by two people. The correct way to include both their names in the citation (according to Chicago style) is (see Chicago style Examples #2, Book):

a. Becker, Mark B., and Susan J. Rozek

b. Becker, M. B., and S. J. Rozek

c. Becker, Mark B., and Rozek, Susan J.

3. You have an article with one author from a journal that you want to include in your bibliography. Here is information about the journal. (See Chicago Examples #5, Journal.)

journal title: Issues in Law and Medicine
volume and issue: volume 46, issue 4
page numbers: 125-136.
Year: 2001

How would you write just the journal part of your citation in Chicago style? This is the information you would put after the author and article title.

a. Issues in Law and Medicine, v.46 no. 4. 125-136, 2001

b. Issues in Law and Medicine, 46 no. 4 (2001): 125-136.

c. Issues in Law and Medicine, (2001) 46 (4): 125-136.

4. You found several articles that you used for your paper that were full-text from the library's databases. The one below was from the database Academic Search Premier:

Credit Card Debt On College Campuses: Causes, Consequences, And Solutions. By: Norvilitis, Jill M.; Santa Maria, Phillip. College Student Journal, Sep2002, Vol. 36 Issue 3, p356-364.

The proper way to cite this article in your bibliography in the Chicago Style is (see Example #8, Online Journal from a database or index):

a. Norvilitis, James M., and Paula Santa Maria. "Credit Card Debt on College Campuses: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions." College Student Journal 36 no. 3 (2002): 356-364. Retrieved September 8, 2003 from Academic Search Premier database.

b. Norvilitis, James M., and Paula Santa Maria. "Credit Card Debt on College Campuses: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions." College Student Journal 36 no. 3 (2002): 356-364. http://www.epnet.com/ (accessed September 8, 2003)

c. Norvilitis, James M. and Paula Santa Maria. 2002. "Credit card debt on college campuses: Causes, consequences, and solutions." College Student Journal 36 (3): 356-364. http://www.epnet.com/ (accessed September 8, 2003).

5. You used information for a research paper from a website that is part of the Web4Health web site that you viewed on Sept. 15, 2003. The page you want to use is written by Gunborg Palme called: How Media Affect Body Image of Women. The URL is http://web4health.info/en/answers/ed-causes-culture-example.htm.

What is the correct way to cite this Web site? (See Example #12, Article from a Web Site.)

a. Palme, Gunborg. "How Media Affect Body Image of Women," http://web4health.info/en/answers/ed-causes-culture-example.htm (accessed September 15, 2003)

b. Palme, Gunborg. How Media Affect Body Image of Women, Web4Health http://web4health.info/en/answers/ed-causes-culture-example.htm. (accessed September 15, 2003)

c. Palme, Gunborg. "How Media Affect Body Image of Women," Web4Health, http://web4health.info/en/answers/ed-causes-culture-example.htm (accessed September 15, 2003)

6. You are writing a paper on the ethics of downloading music from the Internet. One article you used in your research comes from the Wall Street Journal. The article is titled "Will the Music Industry Sue Your Kid?" It appeared in the September 10, 2003 issue on page 1D and was written by Carl Bialik. You want your professor to know that you are using ideas from this article or paraphrasing, but you are not quoting directly. (See #16, "Note Examples")

What is the correct way to write a footnote or endnote when you are quoting referring to or paraphrasing another author's work?

a. Since the music industry has begun to sue young people who are helping download huge amounts of music from the Internet, some parents fear that they will have to pay large sums of money to protect themselves. Parents do not have to worry about being sued if they are unaware what their kids are doing.¹

1. Bialik, Carl. “Will the Music Industry Sue Your Kid,” Wall Street Journal . September 10, 2003, 1D.

b. Since the music industry has begun to sue young people who are helping download huge amounts of music from the Internet, some parents fear that they will have to pay large sums of money to protect themselves. Parents do not have to worry about being sued if they are unaware what their kids are doing.¹

1. Carl Bialik. “Will the Music Industry Sue Your Kid,” Wall Street Journal. September 10, 2003.

c. Since the music industry has begun to sue young people who are helping download huge amounts of music from the Internet, some parents fear that they will have to pay large sums of money to protect themselves. Parents do not have to worry about being sued if they are unaware what their kids are doing.¹

1. Carl Bialik. “Will the Music Industry Sue Your Kid,” Wall Street Journal, September 10, 2003.