Citing Information: Chicago

Chicago: Print Sources (Notes and Bibliography System)

Presented below are a number of examples of citations for print resources as they may appear in a bibliography using the Notes and Bibliography system. The examples are meant to be illustrative and do not encompass every possible situation. If you have questions about citing particular types of sources or dealing with particular situations, you should consult the Chicago Manual of Style or contact a reference librarian.

Book (view detail)

Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1962.

Book with Multiple Authors (view detail)

Fildes, Alan, and Joann Fletcher. Alexander the Great: Son of the Gods. London: Duncan Baird, 2001.

Edited Book (view detail)

Lodge, Henry Cabot, ed. The History of Nations. New York: P.F. Collier, 1928.

Article in an Edited Book (view detail)

Haldon, John. "Humour and the Everyday in Byzantium." In Humour, History, and Politics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, edited by Guy Halsall, 48-71. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Translated Book (view detail)

Freud, Sigmund. Beyond the Pleasure Principle. Translated by James Strachey. New York: Liveright, 1950.

Article from a Scholarly Journal (view detail)

Clabough, Casey. "Appropriations of History, Gothicism, and Cthulhu: Fred Chappell's Dagon." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 36, no. 3 (2003): 37-53.

Article from a Magazine (view detail)

The starting page number should be given for magazine articles, but inclusive page numbers are not required, especially if the article is presented in non-contiguous sections.

Marlowe, Lara. "The Secrets of Snefru." Time, July 22, 1996, 66-67.

Article from a Newspaper (view detail)

Newspapers are often cited only in the notes and are omitted from the bibliography. They may be included, however, at the author's discretion. The format given here represents how these sources would be listed in a bibliography. The starting page should be given for newspaper articles, but inclusive page numbers are not required, especially if the article is presented in non-contiguous sections.

Weisman, Steven R. "North Korea Seen as Ready to Agree to Wider Meetings." New York Times, August 14, 2003, national edition, A1.