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HIST 2314: India and Mexico/American Southwest: Chicago Citation

Evaluating Bibliographic Citations

Evaluating Bibliographic Citations
A bibliographic citation provides relevant information about the author and publication as well as a short summary of the text, usually known as the abstract

Purdue OWL Chicago Style and Formatting Guide
Chicago document format, in-text citation format, and reference list citation format from the Purdue writing center. This link will answer most of your citation questions
Chicago Style Guidance
Click here for additional resources on Chicago style

The information you need for a citation - whether it is a book, website etc.- is also the same information you need to asses a resource.

Last name, First name. Title of Book. Place of publication: Publisher, Year of publication..

(this is the format for an Chicago book citation)

Who is the author? What is their expertise?
What year was it published? Are you looking for recent scholarship or is the publication date not important for your topic?
Who is the publisher? What kinds of materials do they tend to publish?