Using the Chicago Manual of Style for Bibliographies and In-Text Reference

Books | Articles | Other | Electronic Resources
Examples based on:

The Chicago Manual of Style
. 14th Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Harnack, Andrew and Eugene Kleppinger, "Using Chicago Guide to Cite and Document Sources," Online!
.... A Reference Guide To Using Internet Sources
, 2001. <http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite7.html>
.... (10 February 2003).

Used for:

All subject disciplines. Widely used in non-academic publications such as books and magazines.


Books

Basic Form

Author(s). Title. Editor, Compiler or Translator. Edition. City: publisher, date.

Single Author

Fiske, John. Television Culture. London: Methuen, 1987.

Two Authors

Rosenberg, Bernard, and David Manning White. Mass Culture: The Popular Arts in
..... America
. Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1957.

Three or More Authors
**For books with more than three authors you should list the first author listed and et al. in the note citations only; For the bibliography you need to list all authors following the form in the example below.**

Melton, J. Gordon, Phillip Charles Lucas, and Jon R. Stone. Prime Time Religion: An
..... Encyclopedia of Religious Broadcasting
. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1997.

Edited Book

Singleton, Ralph S., and James A. Conrad. Filmmaker's Dictionary. 2nd Edition. Edited
..... by Janna Wong Healy. Hollywood, CA: Lone Eagle Pub. Co., 2000.

Articles

Basic Form

Author name(s). Year. Title of article. Title of periodical Volume, issue number
.... (month or season):Page reference.

Article with Single Author

Lewis, Michael. 2001. The deathbed of television. The American Spectator 34, no.7
.....(Sept.-Oct.):76-78.

Article with Multiple Authors

Kubey, Robert and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. 2002. Television addiction is no mere
.... metaphor. Scientific American 286, no.2 (Feb.):74-77.

Newspaper Article

Mifflin, Lawrie. 1997. A dissertation on Mr. Ed? New scholarly center to study pop
.....television culture. New York Times, 15 October, Late Edition-Final.

Other

Book Review Basic Form

Author(s) of the review. Words "Review of" Title of book, Word "by" Author(s) of book. Title of
.... periodical, Volume, issue number (month or season):Page reference.

Book Review

Farnsworth, Stephen J. and Robert Lichter. Review of The Nightly News Nightmare:
.....Network Television's Coverage of U.S. Presidential Elections 1988-2000
, by Judy
.....Solberg. Library Journal, 127 (1 November 2002):101-102.

Interview Basic Form

Name of person interviewed. Words "Interview by" the interviewer's name. Description of
.... the type of interview (tape recording, video recording, etc…). Place and date of
.... interview.

Interview
Sindelar, Rachel. Interview by author. Tape recording. Evanston, IL., 6 February 2003.

Electronic Resources
**Citations for electronic resources must contain date information documenting the day you accessed the resource online; see the "Date accessed" field following the web address in the Electronic Resource Basic Form example below.**

Electronic Resource Basic Form

Author(s), "Article title," Title, Date of publication or date last updated, <Web address>(Date accessed).

Personal Web Site

Rachel Sindelar, "Homepage," 12 May 2001, <http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/rachelsindelar.html>
..... (28 January 2003).

Professional Web Site

Center for Media Education, Children and Media, 4 March 2002,
..... <http://www.cme.org/children/marketing/chan1.html> (10 February 2003).

E-Book
Blacker, Irwin R. The Elements of Screenwriting: A Guide for Film and Television Writers,
..... 1996, <http://emedia.netlibrary.com/reader/reader.asp?product_id=9134>
..... (7 Febr 2003).
Online Journal Article

Schneider, Steven Jay, "The Haunting, from Novel to Film…to Film, " Journal of Popular Film &
..... Television
30, no.3 (Fall 2002), <http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=7520504&db=afh>
..... (2 February 2003).

Online Newspaper Article

Bauder, David, "ABC Pioneer Leaves Legacy of Innovation," Chicago Sun-Times, 6
..... December 2002, <http://www.suntimes.com/output/obituaries/cst-ftr-xarle06.html> (10
..... February 2003).


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