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Author's last name, First name and Initial. Title italics. Publication location:

Publishing company, Year.

example:

Townsend, Robert. The Medieval Village Economy. Princeton: Princeton
           University Press, 1993.

Editor's last name, First name and Initial, ed. Title italics. Publication location:

Publishing company, Year.

example:

Mcrae, Murdo William, ed. The Literature of Science: Perspectives on Popular

Science Writing. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993. 

Author's last name, First name and Initial. "Title of the Article." Journal Title

italics Volume number (Year): page numbers.

example:

Yeh, Michelle. "The 'Cult of Poetry' in Contemporary China." Journal of 

Asian Studies  55 (1996): 51-80.

Author's last name, First name, Author's First name and Last name, and

Author's First name and Last name. "Title of the Article." Journal
Title italics 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.

Author's last name, First name. "Title of the article." Newspaper Title italics

(city, if applicable) month day year, edition if applicable. URL (if
consulted online)

example:

Greiner, Lynn.  "Wrists on fire? Tech gear for what ails you."  Globe and
           Mail (Toronto) January 27, 2011. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
          

example:

In the article entitled  "Wrists on fire? Tech gear for what ails you,"  published in the Globe and Mail , January 27, 2011, Lynn Greiner noted that...

Author's last name, First name and Initial.  "Article title." Article's original
           source publication date: page numbers. Access date (if required).
           DOI (Digital Object Identifier, if present) or URL.

examples:

Arnott, Gareth, and Robert W. Elwood. “Assessment of fighting ability in
           animal contests.” Animal Behaviour 77, no. 5 (2009): 991-1004.
           Accessed March 21, 2011. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.02.010.

Bonner, W. Nigel. “Environmental assessment in the Antarctic.” Ambio 18,
           no.1 (1989): 83-39. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4313530

Daley, Beth. “A Tale of a Whale: Scientists, Museum are Eager to Study,
           Display Rare Creature.” Boston Globe, June 11, 2002, third edition.
           NewsBank Access World News (0206110256).

Zimmer, Carl. “DNA Studies Suggest Emperor Is Most Ancient of Penguins.”
           New York Times, October 11, 2005, late edition. LexisNexis Academic.
 

Note that it is always necessary to cite the original source of an article even if the article was retrieved from an on-line database or other such electronic source.
DOI is preferred, but if not available, use the shortest, most stable form of the URL. For library databases, if no DOI or persistent URL is available, include the name of the database and, in parentheses, any identification number provided, if present. (CMoS 16, p.763)
Chicago style does not require including an access date. However, if your professor or publisher asks for this, include it after the journal information or publication date, for example, "Accessed July 8, 2010."

Author's last name, First name and Initial (if given). "Title of the lecture." The

meeting title. The sponsoring organization (if given). Location. Month Day Year.

example:

Atwood, Margaret. "Silencing the Scream." Boundaries of the Imagination

Forum, MLA Convention. Royal York Hotel. Toronto. December 29, 1993.

example:

During a class lecture on December 12, 1998, Dr. L. Scott noted that...

If the interview is published and/or broadcast:

Interviewee's last name, First name and Initial. "Title of the interview" (if

given). Interview (if untitled) with interviewer's name. Radio, TV 
program, or Journal title. Program producers (if pertinent).
Month, Day, Year, edition (if radio, TV, or periodical). Publication
location: Publishing company, year (if given). Page numbers
(if given).

example:  

Gordimer, Nadine. Interview. New York Times, late ed., October 10, 1991.

example:

Lansbury, Angela. Interview. Off-Camera: Conversations with the Makers of

Prime-Time Television, eds. Richard Levinson and William Link, New York: Plume-NAL, 1986. 82-86.

If the interview is unpublished and/or unbroadcast:

Interviewee's last name, First name. Interview by interviewer's first and last
           name. Interview format. Location, month day, year. Location of the
           transcript if applicable.

example:

Roemer, Merle A. Interview by author. Tape recording. Millington, MD.,
           July 26, 1973.

Author's Last Name, First Name. "Title of the web site." Month day, Year of
           Publication. URL.

example:  

Kehoe, Brendan P. "Zen and the Art of the Internet." January 1992,

http://freenet.buffalo.edu/~popmusic/zen10.txt.

Author's last name, first name. E-mail to recipient's first and last name, month
           day, year.

example:

Danford, Tom. E-mail to Terry Craig, September 13, 1993.

example:

In an e-mail memo to Terry Craig on the 13th of September, 1993, Tom Danford state that...

Works of art reproduced in a printed source (treat as book chapter)

Artist’s last name, first name. "Title of art work," medium, date of art work
          (Institution where art work is housed (if known), city where housed if
          not already named). In Title of printed source italicized, by Author of
          printed source, page or plate/figure/slide number. Place of publication:
          publisher, date.

example: 

Cassatt, Mary. "Mother and Child," oil on canvas, c.1890 (Wichita Art
           Museum). In American Painting: 1560-1913, by John Pearce,
           slide 22. New York: McGraw, 1964.

Works of art reproduced in electronic source

Artist’s last name, first name. Title of art work,  medium, date of art work
          (Institution where art work is housed (if known), city where housed if
          not already named). URL.

example: 

Monet, Claude. Meadow with Haystacks at Giverny, oil on canvas, 1885
           (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). http://www.artstor.org.

Here are summaries of changes and a quick guide from the publisher's web site:
      What's new in the 16th Edition
      Significant Rule Changes in the 16th Edition
      Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide

Research and Documentation online: History (Diana Hacker) - gives examples for in-text notes and bibliography entries, along with a sample paper in Chicago style. Includes examples for many other types of material besides those shown above. Also includes guidelines on formatting a paper.

Chicago Manual of Style - from Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL), this guide includes examples using the notes-bibliography format. Based on the new 16th edition.

Chicago Manual of Style Notes-Bibliography System Style Guide
Chicago Manual of Style Author-Date System Style Guide
From Ohio State University. These guides include examples using both the footnotes-bibliography style (recommended in the arts, literature and history), and the bibliography and in-text author-date style citations (recommended in the sciences). Based on the new 16th edition.

Turabian Guides

Turabian Quick Guide - gives examples for two basic documentation systems, notes-bibliography style and parenthetical citations–reference list style. From the publisher's web site.

Turabian Citation Guide (based on Chicago Style) - uses the newer parenthetical reference/reference list style. From Concordia University, Montreal.

Turabian Style Guide (based upon Chicago Style) - created by University of Southern Mississippi.