Chicago Manual of Style Citation Guide

This guide is based on the The Chicago Manual of Style 14th ed. rev. (University of Chicago Press, 1993). 

In the Chicago Style of citation, your sources of information can be cited in the body of your paper using parenthetical citation. This means that the author's name, the year of the author's work, and, if applicable, a specific page number is provided within parenthesis at the conclusion of a cited sentence.

When using the parenthetical style (also sometimes referred to as the "scientific style") you would produce a bibliography at the end of your paper that lists your resources in alphabetical order by author's name. The parenthetical style does not require footnotes, end-notes, or a list of works cited. All citations are referenced to your bibliography.

Below you will find several examples of bibliographic entries, along with their associated parenthetical citation. More examples of how parenthetical citations are presented within text are available for you to examine. 

 

Bibliography:

Blinksworth, Roger. 1987. Converging on the evanescent. 
	San Francisco: Threshold Publications.

In-Text:

 

(Blinksworth 1987, 23)

Bibliography:

Collins, Geoffery, and Matthew D. Wortmaster, eds. 
	1953. The collected works of G. Farthington 
	Pennyloss. Boston: C.F. Pennyloss.

In-Text:

(Collins and Wortmaster 1953, 127)

Bibliography:

Sanders, G.S., T.R. Brice, V.L. DeSantis, and 
	C.C. Ryder. 1989. Prediction and 
	prevention of famine. Los Angeles: 
	Timothy Peters.

In-Text

(Sanders et al. 1989, 113)

Bibliography:

Ohio State University. College of Administrative Science. 
	Center for Human Resourse Research. 1977. The 
	national longitudinal surveys handbook. rev. 
	ed. Columbus.

In-Text:

(Ohio State 1977, 147)

Bibliography:

Banks, Willian, 1958. Secret meeting in boise.  
	Midwestern Political Review 6:26-31.

In-Text:

(Banks 1958, 28)

Bibliography:

[Do not include in Reference List. Citation is made in running text style as shown in the In-Text examples below.]

In-Text:

"An editorial in the New York Times, 30 July 1990 took the position..."

In-Text:

"In his article on Nebo in the eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, Morris Jastrow noted that..."

Bill

Bibliography:

Bill C-9, An Act to Facilitate Combatting the Laundering of Proceeds of Crime. 34th Parliament. 3rd session, 1991. 
          (Second Reading, 20 June 1991.)

In-Text:

(Bill C-9)

Bibliography:

Canada. Competition Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-34, as am. by R.S.C. 1985, c. 19 (2nd Supp.), s. 19 
             [formerly the Combines Investigation Act].

Notes:

R.S.C. stands for "Revised Statutes of Canada"; C-34 is the chapter number; "am" is the abbreviation for "amended," "c" is for "chapter," and "s" is for "section."

 

In-Text:

(Competition Act, 1985)

Bibliography:

Belle de jour. 1990. In Magill's Survey 
	of the Cinema [database online]. Pasadena, 
	Calif.: Salem Press. ca..1989-[cited 1 January 1990].  
	Accession no. 50053. P. 2. of 4.  Available from 
	DIALOG Information Services, Inc., Palto Alto, Calif.

In-Text

(Belle de jour 1990)

Bibliography:

Moore, Rich 1990. "Compaq Computer: COMPAQ Joins 
	the Fortune 500 Faster Than Any Company in 
	History." In Businesswire [database online].  
	San Francisco: Business Wire. 1986-[updated 
	9 April 1986: cited 10 March 1990]. Accession 
	no.  000782:  NO=BW420.  5 screens. Available 
	from DIALOG Information Services, Inc., Palt Alto, 
	Calif.

In-Text

(Moore 1990)

Bibliography:

Jewett, Sarah Orne. 1997. The country of 
	the pointed firs [online]. New York: 
	Columbia University, Academic Information 
	Systems, Bartleby Library, 1996 [cited 16 
	October 1997]. Available from World Wide Web:
	(http://www.columbia.edu/acis/.bartleby/jewett) 

In-Text

(Jewett 1997)