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In-Text Notation and Footnotes: Chicago Humanities Style
BooksJournal &Magazine ArticlesNewspaper ArticlesElectronic ResourcesOther Primary Resources

Chicago humanities style is prominent in the humanities, but is also used in other disciplines. If you don't see an appropriate example below, check the Chicago Manual of Style.

Books

  1. Arthur Author, Brian Author and Cathy Author, Title of work (Place
of publication: Publisher, date of publication), page number.
  • To add a note, place a reference number in superscript in the relevant part of the text corresponding to a numbered reference at the foot or end of the document.
  • Reference numbers in the text and note numbers at the foot or end of the document are placed in numerical order.
  • Single space between lines. Indent only the first.
  • Leave blank those elements that are irrelevant or unavailable.
 

First reference to a work by a single author

  1. Antony Clayton, Subterranean City: Beneath the streets of London (London: 
Historical Publications, 2000), 28.

Second reference to a work by a single author

  2. Clayton, Subterranean City, 33

First Reference to a work by two or three authors

  3. Ivar Lodemel and Heather Trickey, eds., An Offer you Can't Refuse: Workfare 
in International Perspective (Bristol: The Policy Press, 2000).

Second Reference to a work by two or three authors

  4. Lodemel and Trickey, An Offer you Can't Refuse.

Work by three or more authors

Use the name of the first author (first name first, last name last) followed by et al. 
with no preceeding comma. In the second and following notes referring to the same work, 
use only the author's last name or Ibid. (when appropriate).

Reference to a work that was referenced in the immediately preceeding note.

  5. Ibid., 35

Electronic book

  6. David Ludden, An Agrarian History of South Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1999) in Penn Library E-Books Project, 
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/ebooks/pdfs/0521364248.pdf (accessed 29 February 2002).

Article or essay within a book

  7. Anders Rosdahl and Hanne Weise, "When All Must be Active--Workfare in Denmark," 
in An Offer you Can't Refuse: Workfare in International Perspective, edited by Ivar 
Lodemel and Heather Trickey (Bristol: The Policy Press, 2001), 189-207.

Encyclopedias and other multi-volume reference works

Entries in standard reference works are often cited without publication information and, if they are arranged alphabetically, are cited by the item title preceded by s.v. ("under the word"). Other reference works are cited with publication information and provide page numbers or other location information.

  8. Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed., s.v. "tartan."

 

Journal and Magazine Articles

  Arthur Author, Brian Author and Cathy Author,"Title of article," Title
of Periodical volume number, no. issue number (publication date[no 
parentheses for magazine articles]): page numbers. 
  • To add a note, place a reference number in superscript in the relevant part of the text corresponding to a numbered reference at the foot or end of the document.
  • Reference numbers in the text and note numbers at the foot or end of the document are placed in numerical order.
  • Single space between lines. Indent only the first.
  • Leave blank those elements that are irrelevant or unavailable.
 

From print journals

  9. Christopher Hitchcock, "The Intransitivity of Causation Revealed in Equations and 
Graphs,"The Journal of Philosophy 98 (2001): 273-99.
If there is an issue number, follow the volume with a comma, 'no.' and issue number. ...98, no. 4 (2001)...

From e-journals

  10. Janssen, Maarten C. "On the Principle of Coordination" Economics and Philosophy
17 (2001): http://www.journals.cambridge.org/ (cited 29 November 2001).

From full-text databases

  11. Victor Gourevitch, "Rousseau on Providence," Review of Metaphysics, March, 
2000, in Expanded Academic ASAP, http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/6802(accessed 
through the University of Pennsylvania Library homepage, November 25, 2003).

From printed magazines

  12. Jeffrey M. O'Brien, "The Making of the X-Box," Wired, November 9 2001, 
146-53.

From online magazines

  13. Jeffrey M. O'Brien, "The Making of the Xbox." Wired, November 9 2001, 146-
53. www.wired.com (accessed 9 November 2001).

Book Reviews

  14.  Ned Markosian, review of Semantics, Tense, and Time, by Peter Ludlow, The
Journal of Philosophy 98 (June 2001): 325-29.

Second and Following References

  15. Hitchcock, "The Intransitivity of Causation," 280. 
or use Ibid. when appropriate.
  16. O'Brien, "The Making of the X-Box," 150. 
or use Ibid. when appropriate.

 

Newspaper Articles

  Author, Arthur, Brian Author and Cathy Author,"Title of article," Title
of Newspaper, sec. number (if used), month day, year.
  • To add a note, place a reference number in superscript in the relevant part of the text corresponding to a numbered reference at the foot or end of the document.
  • Reference numbers in the text and note numbers at the foot or end of the document are placed in numerical order.
  • Single space between lines. Indent only the first.
  • Leave blank those elements that are irrelevant or unavailable.
 

From print newspapers

According to the Chicago Manual of Style, references to news items from daily papers are usually made with citations within the text. The names and dates of relevant papers may be included in the bibliography. 

  17. John Noble Wilford, "Artifacts in Africa Suggest an Earlier Modern Human,"
New York Times, December 2, 2001, national edition.

From online newspapers

  18. John Noble Wilford, "Artifacts in Africa Suggest an Earlier Modern Human,"
New York Times, December 2, 2001, national edition, http://www.nyt.com (accessed 
December 2, 2001).

From full-text databases

  19. John Noble Wilford, "Artifacts in Africa Suggest an Earlier Modern Human,"
New York Times, December 2, 2001, national edition. In Lexis-Nexis, 
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/6973(accessed through the University of Pennsylvania 
Library homepage November 25, 2003).

Newspaper items with no author

As with other items, but begin the note with the title of the work.

 

Online Resources

Note: The style provided here is from the 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, which is the first edition to address online resources. Some specific examples are slightly modified so that student searches can be duplicated. For instance, database examples are modified to reflect the role of the University of Pennsylvania Library in providing the databases.

[Use whatever form is appropriate for the document], URL, (accessed month day, year [recommended]).

  • To add a note, place a reference number in superscript in the relevant part of the text corresponding to a numbered reference at the foot or end of the document.
  • Reference numbers in the text and note numbers at the foot or end of the document are placed in numerical order.
  • Single space between lines. Indent only the first.
  • Leave blank those elements that are irrelevant or unavailable.
  • When page numbers are not available to identify part of an electronic document, use chapter or section information
  • When a document consists of multiple pages or sites, provide the URL of whatever page provides easiest access to all of them (the home page, for example).
 

Electronic book

  20. David Ludden, An Agrarian History of South Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1999) in Penn Library E-Books Project, 
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/ebooks/pdfs/0521364248.pdf (February 29, 2002)

Articles from e-journals

  21. Janssen, Maarten C. "On the Principle of Coordination" Economics and Philosophy
17 (2001): http://www.journals.cambridge.org/ (accessed November 29, 2001).

Articles from full-text databases

  22. Victor Gourevitch, "Rousseau on Providence," Review of Metaphysics, March, 
2000, in Expanded Academic ASAP, http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/6802(accessed 
through the University of Pennsylvania Library homepage, November 25, 2003)

Articles from online magazines

  23. Jeffrey M. O'Brien, "The Making of the Xbox." Wired, November 9, 2001, 146-
53. www.wired.com (accessed November 9, 2001).

Articles from online newspapers

  24. John Noble Wilford, "Artifacts in Africa Suggest an Earlier Modern Human,"
New York Times, December 2, 2001, national edition, http://www.nyt.com (accessed 
December 2, 2001).

Newspaper articles from full-text databases

  25. John Noble Wilford, "Artifacts in Africa Suggest an Earlier Modern Human,"
New York Times, December 2, 2001, national edition. In Lexis-Nexis, 
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/6973(accessed through the University of Pennsylvania 
Library homepage November 25, 2003).

E-mail

  26. Nicholas Okrent, E-mail message to Kathryn Charkatz, December 2, 2001.

Online Posting to a Discussion List or Newsgroup

  27. Nicholas Okrent, "Help on Anti-Plagiarism Software," e-mail to BI-L discussion list,
December 1, 2001, http://www.ala.org/acrl/is/bil.html.

Informally Published Electronic Material

  28. David J. Chalmers, "The Matrix as Metaphysics," David J. Chalmers, 
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/papers/matrix.html (accessed November 25, 2003).

Primary Resources

Interviews (unpublished)

  29. Lydia Messmer, interview by Mark W. Allam, 1987, interview with Lydia Messmer:
Oral History, videorecording, University Archives, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA.

works cited in the above examples:

Chalmers, David. "The Matrix as Metaphysics." David J. Chalmers. 
  http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/papers/matrix.html(accessed November 25, 2003).
Clayton, Antony. Subterranean City: Beneath the streets of London. 
  London: Historical Publications, 2000.
Gourevitch, Victor. "Rousseau on Providence." The Review of Metaphysics
  March 2000. In Expanded Academic ASAP, http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/6802 
  (accessed through University of Pennsylvania Library web page, December 2 2001).
Hitchcock, Christopher. "The Intransitivity of Causation Revealed in Equations
  and Graphs." The Journal of Philosophy 98 (2001): 325-329.
Janssen, Maarten C. "On the Principle of Coordination." Economics and
  Philosophy 17 (2001). http://www.journals.cambridge.org (accessed
  November 29, 2001).
Ludden, David. An Agrarian History of South Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge
  University Press, 1999. In Penn Library E-Books Project,
  http://digital.library.upenn.edu/ebooks/pdfs/0521364248.pdf (accessed through 
  University of Pennsylvania Library webpage, February 29, 2002).
Markosian, Ned. Review of Semantics, Tense, and Time, by Peter Ludlow. The
  Journal of Philosophy 98 (June 2001): 325-329.
Messmer, Lydia. Interview by Mark W. Allam. Interview with Lydia Messmer: 
  Oral History. Videorecording, 1987. University Archives,
  University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1987.
O'Brien, Jeffrey M. "The Making of the Xbox." Wired, November 9, 2001, 146-153.
___. "The Making of the Xbox." Wired, November 9, 2001, 146-153. http://www.wired.com 
  (accessed 9 November 2001).
Rosdahl, Anders and Hanne Weise. "When all must be active-workfare in 
  Denmark." In An Offer you can't Refuse: Workfare in International Perspective, 
  Edited by Ivar Lodemel and Heather Trickey. Bristol: The Policy Press, 2001.
Wilford, John Noble. "Artifacts in Africa Suggest an Earlier Modern Human."
  New York Times, December 2, 2001, national edition.
___. "Artifacts in Africa Suggest an Earlier Modern Human." New York Times, 
  December 2, 2001, www.nyt.com (accessed December 2, 2001).
___. "Artifacts in Africa Suggest an Earlier Modern Human." New York Times, 
  December 2, 2001. In Lexis-Nexis, http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/6973. 
  (accessed through University of Pennsylvania Library web page, December 2 2001).
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