Chicago Style Quick Guide

Print Resources

Books – General Format

Author Lastname, Author Firstname. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.
Source Bibliography Entry

Book, One Author
Book, Two or Three Authors
Book, Four or More Authors
Rehnquist, William H. The Supreme Court: A History of New
York. New York: Knopf, 2001.
Coe, Michael D., and Mark Van Stone. Reading the Maya
Glyphs. London: Thames & Hudson, 2002.
Hunt, Lynn, Thomas R. Martin, Barbara H. Rowenstein,
R. Po-chia Hsia, and Bonnie G. Smith. The Marketing of the
West: Peoples and Cultures. Boston: Bedford. 2001.

Journal Article – General Format

Author Lastname, Author Firstname. “Title of Article.” Name of Journal Issue number, volume number
(Publication Year): Page range.
Source Bibliography Entry

Article in Journal MacDonald, Susan Peck. “The Erasure of Language.” College

Composition and Communication 58, no 4 (2007): 585 -
625.

Magazine Article – General Format

Author Lastname, Author Firstname. “Title of Article.” Name of Magazine, Month, Year.

Source Bibliography Entry

Article in Magazine Macel, Emily. “Beijing’s Modern Movement.” Dance Magazine,

February 2009.

Newspaper Article - General Format

Author Lastname, Author Firstname. “Title of Article.” Name of Newspaper, (Place of Publication, State), Month, Day
Year of Publication.
Source Bibliography Entry
Article in Newspaper Deo, Nisha. “Visiting Professor Lectures on Photographer.” Exponent,
(West Lafayette, IN) Feb. 13, 2009.

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Electronic Resources

Web Page – General Format

Author Lastname, Author Firstname. “Title of the web page.” Publishing organization or name of web site.
Publication date if available. URL
Source Bibliography Entry

Web Page with Author and Date Mister Jalopy. “Effulgence of the North: Storefront Arctic Panorama
in Los Angeles.” Dinosaurs and Robots. 30 January 2009.
http://www.dinosaursandrobots.com/2009/01/effulgence-
of-north-storefront-arctic.html.

Web Page with Date but without Author “Illinois governor wants to 'fumigate' state's government.”
CNN.com. 30 January 2009.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/30/illinois. /.

Web Page with Unknown Date and Author “Band.” Casa de Calexico. http://www.casadecalexico.com/band.

Article from Database – General Format

Author Lastname, Author Firstname. “Title of Article.” Name of Publication Issue number, volume number
(Publication Year): Page range. URL of database.
Source Bibliography Entry

Journal Article from Database
Magazine Article from Database
Bent, Henry E. Bent. "Professionalization of the Ph.D. Degree.”
College Composition and Communication 58, no. 4 (2007):
0-145. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1978286 (accessed
December 5, 2008).
Pryce-Jones, David. “The Greatest Sorting Out: Postwar Iraq.”
National Review, May 5, 2003, 17-18.
http://newfirstsearch.org.

Government Document - General Format

Author.* Title of Government Document, Year of Release. Publication City, State: Publisher, Year of Publication
*generally the author is the name of the government organization responsible for the document*

Source Bibliography Entry

Government Document Online U.S. Department of State. Foreign Relations of the United States:
Diplomatic Papers, 1943. Washington, DC: GPO, 1965.

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Source Bibliography Entry