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CMoS Resources

Quick Guide to CMoS 17th Edition

Three Elements of Notes-Bibliography entries:

  1. Author(s).
  2. Title.
  3. Publication Information, including year.

Template:

Author(s). Title. Publication Information.


Four Elements of Author-Date Bibliography entries:

  1. Author(s).
  2. Publication Year.
  3. Title.
  4. Publication Information.

Template:

Author. Year. Title. Publication Information.

Notes- Bibliography Entry:

Last Name, First Name.  "Article title in quotation marks". Journal Title italicized volume number, no. issue number (Publication Date in parentheses): page numbers. DOI, permalink, or URL. 

Example:

Benz, Terressa A. “Toxic Cities: Neoliberalism and Environmental Racism in Flint and Detroit Michigan.” Critical Sociology 45, no. 1 (January 2019): 49–62. doi:10.1177/0896920517708339.

 

Footnote or Endnote:

First Name Last Name,  "Article title in quotation marks". Journal Title italicized volume number, no. issue number (Publication Date in parentheses): page number. DOI, permalink, or URL. 

Example:

Terressa A. Benz,  “Toxic Cities: Neoliberalism and Environmental Racism in Flint and Detroit Michigan.” Critical Sociology 45, no. 1 (January 2019): 50. doi:10.1177/0896920517708339.


Author-Date System Bibliography Entry:

This format depends on the details available. Consult resources for detailed information.

Last Name, First Name. Year. "Article title in quotation marks." Journal Title italicized volume number, no. issue number (month or season in parentheses): article page range.

Example:

Benz, Terressa A. 2019. “Toxic Cities: Neoliberalism and Environmental Racism in Flint and Detroit Michigan.” Critical Sociology 45, no. 1 (January): 49–62. doi:10.1177/0896920517708339.

 

Bibliography Entry:

Last name, First name. "Title of of dissertation or thesis in quotation marks." Type of document, University Granting Degree, Year of publication. DOI, permanlink, or URL.

Example:

Kirchner, David Elek. "Challenging Private Power: Neighborhood Opposition to Redlining in Three Midwestern Cities." Doctoral Dissertation, Washington University, 2001. https://search.proquest.com/docview/304734464

 

Footnote or Endnote:

First name Last name, "Title of of dissertation or thesis in quotation marks."  (Type of document, University Granting Degree, Year of publication in parentheses), page number. DOI, permanlink, or URL.

Example:

Kirchner, David Elek. "Challenging Private Power: Neighborhood Opposition to Redlining in Three Midwestern Cities." (Doctoral Dissertation, Washington University, 2001.) 113, https://search.proquest.com/docview/304734464


Author-Date Bibliography Entry:

Last name, First name. Year. "Title of of dissertation or thesis in quotation marks." Type of document, University Granting Degree. DOI, permanlink, or URL.

Example:

Kirchner, David Elek. 2001. "Challenging Private Power: Neighborhood Opposition to Redlining in Three Midwestern Cities." Doctoral Dissertation, Washington University. https://search.proquest.com/docview/304734464

Bibliography Entry:

Last name, First name. Title of Book italicized. Publisher, Year of publication. URL, permalink, DOI, or database.

Example:

Aalbers, Manuel B. Place, Exclusion and Mortgage Markets. John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2011. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/fhsu/detail.action?docID=697783


Footnote or Endnote:

First name Last name, Title of Book Italicized. (Publisher, Year of publication. in parentheses), page number. URL, permalink, DOI, or database.

Example:

Manuel B. Aalbers, Place, Exclusion and Mortgage Markets. (John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2011.) 78. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/fhsu/detail.action?docID=697783


 Author-Date System Bibliography Entry:

Last name, First Name. Year. Title italicized. Publisher name. URL, permalink, DOI, or database.

Example:

Aalbers, Manuel B. 2011. Place, Exclusion and Mortgage Markets. John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/fhsu/detail.action?docID=697783

Encyclopedia with an individual author and editor Bibliography Entry:

Last name, First name. "Title of entry in quotation marks." In Title of Encyclopedia italicized. Edited by First Name Last Name. Edition. Publisher, Year of publication. URL, permalink, DOI, or database.

Example:

Martin, Lori Latrice. "Redlining." In Encyclopedia of Diversity and Social Justice, edited by Sherwood Thompson. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014. https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/rowmandasj/redlining/0


Encyclopedia with an individual author and editor Footnote or Endnote:

First name Last name, "Title of entry in quotation marks, in Title of Encyclopedia italicized, ed. Editor First name Last Name, Edition, (Publisher, Year of publication. in parentheses), page number. URL, permalink, DOI, or database.

Example:

Lori Latrice Martin, "Redlining," in Encyclopedia of Diversity and Social Justice, ed. Sherwood Thompson. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014. https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/rowmandasj/redlining/0


Encyclopedia with an individual author and editor Author-Date System Bibliography Entry:

Last name, First Name. Year. "Title of Entry in quotation marks." In Encyclopedia Title italicized. Edited by First Name Last Name. Edition. Publisher, Year of publication. URL, permalink, DOI, or database.

Example:

Martin, Lori Latrice. "Redlining." In Encyclopedia of Diversity and Social Justice, edited by Sherwood Thompson. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014. https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/rowmandasj/redlining/0


Encyclopedia with no individual author and no editor Bibliography Entry:

Title of Encyclopedia italicized, Edition. s.v. "Title of Entry in quotation marks," Publisher, Year of publication, or last modified date, or access date. URL, permalink, DOI, or database.

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, s.v. "segregation, racial."  Britannica Digital Learning, 2017.  https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/ebconcise/segregation_racial/0 


Encyclopedia with no individual author and no editor Footnote or Endnote:

Title of Encyclopedia italicized, Edition. s.v. "Title of Entry in quotation marks," (Year of publication in parentheses). or last modified date, or access date. URL, permalink, DOI, or database.

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, s.v. "segregation, racial." (2017).  https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/ebconcise/segregation_racial/0 


Encyclopedia with no individual author and no editor Author-Date System Bibliography Entry:

Title of Encyclopedia italicized, Edition. s.v. "Title of Entry in quotation marks," Publisher, Year of publication, or last modified date, or access date. URL, permalink, DOI, or database.

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, s.v. "segregation, racial."  Britannica Digital Learning, 2017.  https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/ebconcise/segregation_racial/0 


What does s.v. mean?

s.v. stands for sub verbo, Latin for "under the word" and is used to identify the article's title when there is no author 

Bibliography Entry:

Author Last Name, First Name. "Title of specific web page in quotation marks." Title of site as a whole. Owner or sponsor of site. Publication, modification or access date. URL.

Example:

 "Definition of Redlining in Real Estate." The Balance. Dotdash. Last modified November 21, 2019. https://www.thebalance.com/definition-of-redlining-1798618

 

Footnote or Endnote:

Author Last Name, First Name."Title of specific web page in quotation marks." Title of site as a whole. Owner or sponsor of site. Publication, modification or access date. URL.

 "Definition of Redlining in Real Estate. "The Balance. Dotdash. Last modified November 21, 2019. https://www.thebalance.com/definition-of-redlining-1798618


Author-Date Bibliography Entry:

Author Last Name, First Name.Year. "Title of specific web page in quotation marks." Title of site as a whole. Owner or sponsor of site. Publication, modification or access date. URL.

 "Definition of Redlining in Real Estate." 2019. The Balance. Dotdash. Last modified November 21, 2019. https://www.thebalance.com/definition-of-redlining-1798618

Give the name of the artist, the title of the artwork (in italics), the year it was made, and where it lives (museum, gallery, etc.). It’s fine to add other information if you know it, such as the size and medium. If you found it online, give the date you found it and the URL. If you found it in a book, cite the book and page number. You can put the information in a caption near the image or in an endnote or footnote. (Images are not usually listed in a bibliography.)

Examples of endnotes or footnotes

  1. Georgia O’Keeffe, The Cliff Chimneys, 1938, oil on canvas, 36 × 30 in., Milwaukee Art Museum, accessed December 10, 2015, https://gokmrc.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/a-hike-at-ghost-ranch/.
  2. Georgia O’Keeffe, The Cliff Chimneys, 1938, Milwaukee Art Museum, in Barbara Buhler Lynes, Lesley Poling-Kempes, and Frederick W. Turner, Georgia O’Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004), 25.

Example for citing within the text of a paper

There are many paintings of the American West. Georgia O’Keeffe’s The Cliff Chimneys (1938, Milwaukee Art Museum) is a famous one.

If you are using author-date citations:

Author-date citations are not normally used to cite images. Instead, put the information about the image into a caption or in parentheses in the text of your paper.

Notes-Bibliography System:

Include a footnote or endnote each time you use a source. These notes have a superscript number for each note, with references at the end of the page (footnote) or document/chapter (endnote). 

How to insert footnotes and endnotes in Word 

If the paper also includes a bibliography, the information in the note can be shortened. If there is not a bibliography, all information should be included in the note. 

Example: "Perhaps the most blatant example of a government instituted system of worthiness occurred within six months of the switch to the Flint River when General Motors (GM) ceased use of the toxic water "1

1. Terressa A. Benz,  “Toxic Cities: Neoliberalism and Environmental Racism in Flint and Detroit Michigan.” Critical Sociology 45, no. 1 (January 2019): 50. doi:10.1177/0896920517708339.


Author-Date System:

Template:

(Last Name Year)

Example:  (Benz 2019)

 

Narrative Citations: If you refer to the author in your written text, use only the year in parentheses after the author's name.

Example: Benz (2019) examines environmental racism in Michigan.

 

Specific Quotes and Paraphrases: Include information about the specific part of your citation, such as page, paragraph, or chapter.

Example: "Perhaps the most blatant example of a government instituted system of worthiness occurred within six months of the switch to the Flint River when General Motors (GM) ceased use of the toxic water " (Benz 2019, 55)


Quick Guide to Formatting in CMoS

  1. Have the top, sides, and bottom margins set at 1 inch
  2. Use standard font such as 12 pt. Times New Roman
  3. Double-space the text and indent each new paragraph by ½ inch.
  4. Place page numbers in the top right or center bottom of all pages except the title page.
  5. Leave the right margin “ragged”  (unless otherwise instructed)

There are two different styles (both are identical in content, but different in forms)

  • Author-Date, with in-text citation (close to APA Style)
  • Note/Bibliography, with footnotes/endnotes

 

For the Title Page, all text should be center-aligned, double-spaced, all the same font, and the Title and Subtitle is 1/3 down the page, Capitalized and in Bold. And 2/3 down the page place the other information: Name, Course Name and Code, The Date.

 

 

Title

Subtitle

 

 

 

 

 

 

Name

Course Name and Code

The Date

 

 

For the Bibliography or Reference list

  1. On a new page at the end of the main text
  2. Use a hanging Indent
  3. Have subheadings of Primary and Secondary Sources
  4. Turabian style: single space

 

Bibliography (for Notes-Bibliogrpahy style) or References (For Author-Date style)

 

Primary Sources

Benz, Terressa A. “Toxic Cities: Neoliberalism and Environmental Racism in Flint and Detroit Michigan.” Critical Sociology 45, no. 1 (January 2019): 49–62. doi:10.1177/0896920517708339.

Benz, Terressa A. 2019. “Toxic Cities: Neoliberalism and Environmental Racism in Flint and Detroit Michigan.” Critical Sociology 45, no. 1 (January): 49–62. doi:10.1177/0896920517708339.

Secondary Sources

Aalbers, Manuel B. Place, Exclusion and Mortgage Markets. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2011. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/fhsu/detail.action?docID=697783

Aalbers, Manuel B. 2011. Place, Exclusion and Mortgage Markets. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/fhsu/detail.action?docID=697783

Conscious Language

“Comments that betray a writer’s conscious or unconscious biases or ignorance may cause readers to lose respect for the writer and interpret the writer’s words in ways that were never intended.”[1]

 

  • Emphasize the person, not a characteristic
    • Avoid irrelevant references to personal characteristics like: sex, race, ethnicity, disability, age religion, sexual orientation, transgender status, or social standing.
    • Only mention a characteristic when it will help the reader develop a picture of the person you are writing about, Use Care.
    • (pulling examples from the Avoiding other bias Language tab)
  • Use gender-neutral language. Such as their, they, and one. Unless it is relevant.

 

  • Avoid language most readers might find offensive or distraction
    • Unless the biased language is central to the meaning of the working.

 

For more details about Conscious Language, refer to chapters 5.252 – 5.260 in the 17th edition of the CMoS.


[1] The Chicago Manual of Style (University of Chicago Press Editorial Press), accessed August 31, 2021, https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/book/ed17/part2/ch05/psec260.html.

Chicago FAQ

What is Chicago style citation?

Chicago is a documentation style that has been published by the Chicago University Press since 1906. There are two different styles (both are identical in content, but different in form)

  • Note/Bibliography, with footnotes/endnotes
  • Author-date, with in-text citations (close to APA style) (Last Name, Year, Page #)

This style type is most common among writers and students of History, English and Art. It provides readers with cues they can use to follow your ideas more efficiently and to locate information of interest.


Where do I put in-text citations, footnotes, endnotes?

  • For an in-text citation, this should be placed at the end of the sentence for a quote or at the end of a paragraph if paraphrasing someone else’s ideas. The citation should also be used every time a quote/idea is used when used multiple times.
    • (Last Name, Year, Page #) ((Benz 2019, 55)
  • For footnotes, the same applies when placing it behind the sentence for a quote or end of a paragraph when paraphrasing. However, this is where you will place a superscript number, and then the full citation would end in the footnotes of the page in which the item being cited appears in.
    • The quote or paraphrase used within the main body of the text.[1]
  • Endnotes also use superscripts, however instead of the citation showing in the footnotes, the endnotes will appear at the end of the body of text and before the bibliography/reference list.

[1] Last name, First name. Title of Book italicized. Place of publication: Publisher, Year of publication. URL, permalink, DOI, or database.


Do in-text citations count towards word count?

            No, the in-text citations, footnotes, or endnotes do not count towards a word count.


What are the General Guidelines for a Bibliography or Reference List?

  • Using a hanging indent
  • Make sure to have this page double-spaced
  • Keep citations in alphabetical order

How should a source be cited when there is no author?

No author: start with the title


What if there is no publication date?

Use n.d


What words in a title should be capitalized?

All titles are written in title case