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Chicago Citation Guide: How do I Cite?

This guide covers Chicago citation rules and formatting.

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Comprehensive Chicago Guides

Chicago Style Guides 
This website is organized by source type and provides details about, and examples of, correct Chicago citations.

Journal Articles

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EXAMPLE: Journal articles (with and without a DOI)

1. Susan Satterfield, “Livy and the Pax Deum,” Classical Philology 111, no. 2 (April 2016): 170.

2. Shao-Hsun Keng, Chun-Hung Lin, and Peter F. Orazem, “Expanding College Access in Taiwan, 1978–2014: Effects on Graduate Quality and Income Inequality,” Journal of Human Capital 11, no. 1 (Spring 2017): 9–10, https://doi.org/10.1086/690235.

Full bibliographic reference:

EXAMPLE: Journal articles (with and without a DOI)

Keng, Shao-Hsun, Chun-Hung Lin, and Peter F. Orazem. “Expanding College Access in Taiwan, 1978–2014: Effects on Graduate Quality and Income Inequality.” Journal of Human Capital 11, no. 1 (Spring 2017): 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1086/690235.

Satterfield, Susan. “Livy and the Pax Deum.” Classical Philology 111, no. 2 (April 2016): 165–76.

Websites

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EXAMPLE: Websites

1. “Privacy Policy,” Privacy & Terms, Google, last modified April 17, 2017, https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

2. “About Yale: Yale Facts,” Yale University, accessed May 1, 2017, https://www.yale.edu/about-yale/yale-facts.

3. Katie Bouman, “How to Take a Picture of a Black Hole,” filmed November 2016 at TEDxBeaconStreet, Brookline, MA, video, 12:51, https://www.ted.com/talks/

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EXAMPLE: Websites

Bouman, Katie. “How to Take a Picture of a Black Hole.” Filmed November 2016 at TEDxBeaconStreet, Brookline, MA. Video, 12:51. https://www.ted.com/talks/

katie_bouman_what_does_a_black_hole_look_like.

Google. “Privacy Policy.” Privacy & Terms. Last modified April 17, 2017. https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Yale University. “About Yale: Yale Facts.” Accessed May 1, 2017. https://www.yale.edu/about-yale/yale-facts.

Books

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EXAMPLE: Book with one author

1. Henry David Thoreau, “Walking,” in The Making of the American Essay, ed. John D’Agata (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2016), 177–78.

Full bibliographic reference:

EXAMPLE: Book with one author

Haley, Alex. Roots: The Saga of an American Family. New York: Doubleday, 1976.

EXAMPLE: Book with two authors

King, Stephen, and Peter Straub. The Talisman. New York: Viking Press, 1984.

EXAMPLE: Book chapter from an edited volume

Schwartz, Paula. “Redefining Resistance: Woman’s Activism in Wartime France.” In Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars, edited by Margaret R. Higonnet, Jane Jenson, Sonya Michel, and Margaret C. Weitz, 141–53. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale UP, 1987.