Chicago Manual Style - NMU Writing Center

The Chicago Manual of Style is used for History and some Humanities.                    

Instead of using in-text citations like MLA and APA does, Chicago uses footnotes or endnotes.  You can find footnotes/endnotes by clicking on the “insert” tab and/or the “reference” tab in Microsoft Word.

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BOOK WITH ONE AUTHOR                        

Note

Author with FIRST Name First, Title of Book (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication), page number(s).

Example:

Harlow Giles Unger, Noah Webster: The Life and Times of an American Patriot (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998), 35-38.                                            

Bibliography

Author with LAST Name First. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.

Example:

Unger, Harlow Giles. Noah Webster: The Life and Times of an American Patriot. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998.   

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BOOK WITH TWO AUTHORS                    

Note

Name of First Listed Author with FIRST Name First and Name of Second Author with FIRST Name First, Title of Book (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication), page number(s).

Example:

Jan Svartvik and Geoffrey Leech, English: One Tongue, Many Voices (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006), 124-129. 

Bibliography:

Name of First Listed Author with LAST Name First, and Name of Second Author with FIRST Name First. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.

Example:

Svartvik, Jan, and Geoffrey Leech. English: One Tongue, Many Voices. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006.

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BOOK WITH AN EDITOR          

Note

Author with FIRST Name First, Title of Book, ed. Editor’s Name with FIRST Name First (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication), page number(s).

Example:

Louisa May Alcott, Hospital Sketches, ed. Alice Fahs (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004), 24.

Bibliography

Author with LAST Name First, Title of Book. Edited by Editor’s Name with FIRST Name First. Place of      Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.

Example:

Alcott, Louisa May. Hospital Sketches. Edited by Alice Fahs. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004.  

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ARTICLE IN A JOURNAL                            

Note:

Author with FIRST Name First, “Title of Article,” Title of Journal volume # (Date): page number(s).

Example:

John Maynard Smith, “The Origin of Altruism,” Nature 393 (1998): 639.

Bibliography:

Author with LAST Name First. “Title of Article.” Title of Journal volume #, issue #. (Date): page numbers.

Example:

Smith, John Maynard. “The Origin of Altruism.” Nature 393 (1998): 639–40.

Article Online (Note)

Author with FIRST Name First, “Title of Article,” Title of Journal volume # (Date): page number(s), Article URL.

Example:

John Maynard Smith, “The Origin of Altruism,” Nature 393 (1998): 639, http://www.nature.com.  

 

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ARTICLE IN A MAGAZINE                      

Note

Author with FIRST Name First, “Title of Article,” Title of Magazine, Date, page number(s).                                          

Example:

Steve Martin, “Sports-Interview Shocker,” New Yorker, May 6, 2002, 84.

Bibliography:

Author with LAST Name First. “Title of Article.” Title of Journal, Date, page numbers.   

Example:

Martin, Steve. “Sports-Interview Shocker.” New Yorker, May 6, 2002.      

Magazine Article Online (Note)

Author with FIRST Name First, “Title of Article,” Title of Journal, Date, page number(s), Article URL.

Example:

Steve Martin, “Sports-Interview Shocker,” New Yorker, May 6, 2002, 84, http://newyorker.com.

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Ideas and some examples borrowed from the 15th Edition of the Chicago Manual of Style Online

Last updated: October 2007