Chicago Citation Style

The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition


Color code

Author(s) <blue>

 

 Date <red> 

 

 Title of book <pink> 

 

 Title of article <green> 

 

 Title of periodical <purple> 

 
Volume <orange> 

 

 Pages <lt blue>

 

 Place of publication <brown> 

 

 Publisher <yellow>

 

 Other information <gray>

 


Journal Article

Geier, Bryan. 2000. Organic agriculture worldwide--a fast growing reality for 100% pesticide risk reduction. Acta-horticulturae 525: 31-37.

 

Popular Magazine Article

Donaldson, David. 2007. When to buy organic. Better Homes and Gardens , June 3: 288.

 

Magazine or Journal Article Retrieved from a Database

If an access date is required by your publisher or discipline, include it parenthetically at the end of the citation, as in the example below.

Shelke, Karen. 2005. How to say it organically: consumers are buying into organic foods; are you buying organic ingredients? Food Processing 66, no. 4 (April 3). http://find.galegroup.com/itx/start.do?prodId=AONE (accessed March 13, 2008).

 

Newspaper Article

Dillon, Sam. 2009. Education standards likely to see toughening. New York Times, April 14. A3.

If the newspaper was accessed through the online version of the newspaper:

Dillon, Sam. 2009. Education standards likely to see toughening. New York Times, April 14. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/education/15educ.html.


Book

Berger, Sharon. 2005. Allotment gardening : an organic guide for beginners . Devon [England]: Green Books, Ltd.

eBook

If a book is available in more than one format, you should cite the version you consulted, but you may also list the other formats, as in the example below.

Berger, Sharon. 2005. Allotment gardening : an organic guide for beginners . Devon [England]: Green Books, Ltd. http://press-pubs.greenbooks.com/gardening/. Also available in print form.


Book with an editor

Kruger, Anna, ed. 2001. Gardening When It Counts . Westport, CT: Greenwood.

 

Book Article or Chapter

Begin with the name of the author of the selection, not with the name of the author of the book. Then give the date of publication. Then give the title of the selection, "in" the title of the book; the name of the author or editor (editor preceded by "ed." for "Edited by"); the pages on which the selection appears; and publication information.

Coleman, Eliot. 1995. The new organic grower. In Gardening When It Counts , ed. Anna Kruger, 219-223. Westport, CT: Greenwood.

 

Website

Web sites may be cited in running text ("On its Web site, the May Clinic Staff states . . . ") instead of an in-text citation, and they are commonly omitted from a bibliography or reference list as well. The following example shows the more formal version of the citation. If an access date is required by your publisher or discipline, include it parenthetically at the end of the citation, as in the example below.

Mayo Clinic Staff. Organic foods: Are they safer? More nutritious? < http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/organic-food/NU00255>(accessed March 13, 2008).

 

Blog

Blog entries or comments may also be cited in running text instead of in an in-text citation, and they are commonly omitted from a bibliography or reference list as well. The following example shows the more formal version of the citation. If an access date is required by your publisher or discipline, include it parenthetically at the end of the citation, as in the example below.

Organic Gardening News. http://organicgarden.blogspot.com/. (accessedMarch 13, 2008).

 

Encyclopedia Article

Well known, alphabetically arranged reference books used as sources are not included in the reference list but are cited in the text (section 17.238).

Example:

In her article on organic gardening in the 1987 edition of The New Encyclopaedia Britannica , Jessica Smith says that the phrase organic gardening was coined in the 1960s.

Articles from less well known reference works can be treated as a book article or chapter.

 

Online Encyclopedia Article

"botanical garden" World Encyclopedia . 2005. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign. 28 February 2008 < http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t142.e1518>.

 

Movie

Begin with the title, italicized. For a videotape or DVD, add "Videocassette" or "DVD." Cite the director followed by the year of the film's release, the city it was produced in, name of the distributor and the year the film was released on DVD or Videocassette.

High Fidelity . DVD. Directed by Stephen Frears. 2000; Los Angeles, CA: Walt Disney Video, 2001.

 

YouTube video

For videos, provide the author only if you are sure that person created the video. Do not list the person posting the video online as the author. If you are unsure, treat the citation as having no author.

Has an author:

Takayma-Ogawa, J., & Willette, J. (2007). What is information literacy [Video] Retrieved December 12, 2007, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeopJX5jJV8.

Has no author:

Slingshot fun [Video]. (2007). Retrieved February 1, 2007, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCmZYce0J2E.


General Rules

 

Based on http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citation.htm by Robert Delaney at B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library, Long Island University.