BOOKS
Example
Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. Place of Publication:
Publisher, Year.
Single author
Franklin, John Hope. George Washington Williams: A Biography.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
Two or three authors
Kernighan, Brian W., and Dennis M. Ritchie. The C Programming
Language. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1978.
Editor or compiler as author
von Hallberg, Robert, ed. Canons. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
Article or chapter in a book
Beech, Mary Higdon. “The Domestice Realm in the Lives of Hindu Women in Calcutta.”
In Separate Worlds: Studies of Purdah in South Asia, ed. Hanna Papnanek and Gail Minaul,
110-38. Delhi: Chanakya, 1982.
PERIODICALS
Example
Lastname, Firstname. “Title of Article,” Title of Periodical vol# (Year): Pages.
Article in a scholarly journal
Jackson, Richard. "Running Down the Up-Escalator: Regional Inequality in Papua New Guinea."
Australian Geographer 14 (1979): 175-84.
Entire issue or special section of a journal
Good, Thomas, ed. “Non-subject-matter Outcomes of Schooling.” Special issue,
Elementary School Journal 99, no. 5 (1999).
Article in a popular magazine
Weber, Bruce. "The Myth Maker: The Creative Mind of Novelist E. L. Doctorow."
U.S. News and World Report, 20 (October 1985): 42.
Article in a newspaper
Camille, Andre. "Deciding Who Gets Dibs on Health-Care Dollars." Wall Street Journal
(27 March 1984): 30(W) and 34(E).
Periodical published annually
Wilson, G. M. 1917. A Survey of the Social Business Use of Arithmetic. In Sixteenth Yearbook of the
National Society for the Study of Education, 20-22. Bloomington, Ill.: Public School Publishing Co.
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
When listing a web site on your works consulted page, it may be difficult to find all the information for a full citation. The most important citation parts are the URL (web site address) and the date you accessed the page. Although individual authors may publish information on a web site, you will often find web resources created by an institution or organization as shown in the examples below.
WORLD WIDE WEB
Example
Author's Last Name, First Name. Title of Page, Page date or date of last revision [if different from access date]. <URL> (date of access).
Mortimer, Gail. The William Faulkner Society Home Page, 16 September 1999, <http://www.english.ufl.edu/faulkner/> (Accessed 19 November 2003).
ARTICLE FROM A LIBRARY DATABASE
Example
Author's Last Name, First Name. “Title of Article,” Title of Periodical, vol# (year): pages. Name of database, Name of database family (date of access).
Kowalski, Robin M. "Whining, griping, and complaining: Positivity in the negativity," Journal of Clinical Psychology, 58, (2002):
1023. PsycInfo, Ovid (19 December 2002).
FOR MORE INFORMATION
The Chicago Manual of Style. 15TH ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Reference Desk: Z253 .U69
Examples http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html
Chicago Manual of Style Q&A http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/CMS_FAQ/new/new_questions01.html
Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses and Dissertations, 6th ed.
Revised by John Grossman and Alice Bennett. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Reference Desk and Tisch Stacks LB2369 .T8
Quick Online Guide
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html
Walker, Janice R. Columbia Guide to Online Style. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.
Reference Desk: PN171 .F56 W35
Overview http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos2006/basic.html