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Cite in Chicago Style NB: References: Books

General Format

References are entered in two places. The Bibliography goes at the end of your paper, and the Notes are the in-text citation in the body of your paper.

  • The Bibliography has the full citation information
    • Single-spaced and with no extra space between entries.
    • Alphabetize entries and use a hanging indent.
    • See the examples in the boxes below.
  • Notes are either endnotes (at the end of the body of paper) or footnotes (bottom of each page)
    • Formatting is the same for endnotes or footnotes. But use only one or the other, not both.
    • Numbered notes are coordinated with superscript numbers in the body of the text.
    • Notes are indented by one tab.
    • The first time you cite a source, use the Full Note as indicated below; subsequent times, use the Shortened Note form.

Books

Last name, First name. Title. City: Publisher, date.

Arendt, Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. New York: Viking Press, 1963.

 

Full note:

1. Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (New York: Viking Press, 1963), 24.

Shortened note:

2. Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem, 26.

Book Chapters

Last name, First name. "Title of Article." In Title of Book, edited by Editors, page range. City: Publisher, date.

Hempton, David. "The People Called Methodists: Transitions in Britain and North America." In Oxford Handbook of Methodist Studies, edited by James E. Kirby and William J. Abraham, 67-84. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

 

Full note:

3. David Hempton, "The People Called Methodists: Transitions in Britain and North America," in Oxford Handbook of Methodist Studies, ed. James E. Kirby and William J. Abraham (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 72.

Shortened note:

4. Hempton, "People Called Methodists," 75. 

Unpublished Manuscripts

Balderdash, Pat. “Presbyopia and Screen Size: A Relational Analysis.” Unpublished manuscript, last modified May 5, 2017. Microsoft Word file.

 

Full note:

5. Pat Balderdash, “Presbyopia and Screen Size: A Relational Analysis,” (unpublished manuscript, May 5, 2017), Microsoft Word file.

Shortened note: 

6. Balderdash, "Presbyopia and Screen Size."

E-Books

Available via the internet

Last name, First name. Title. City: Publisher, date. DOI or stable link if available.

Kurland, Philip B., and Ralph Lerner, eds. The Founders’ Constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/.

 

Full note:

7. Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner, eds., The Founders’ Constitution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), chap. 10, doc. 19, http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/.

Shortened note: 

8. Kurland and Lerner, Founders’ Constitution, chap. 4, doc. 29.

Available via specific platform or reader

Last name, First name. Title. City: Publisher, date. Name of platform.

Do not use the long, often-unstable link provided by many database platforms. 

Bobel, Chris and Samantha Kwan. Body Battlegrounds: Transgressions, Tensions, and Transformations. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2019. Proquest Ebook Central.

 

Full note:

9. Chris Bobel and Samantha Kwan, Body Battlegrounds (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2019), 118, Proquest Ebook Central.

Shortened note: 

10. Bobel and Kwan, Body Battlegrounds, 118.