Citation Guide Using Chicago style.

  • You will provide all bibliographic information in the footnote (i.e., no Works Cited or Bibliography is necessary at the end of the paper).
  • Note the format and placement of each part of the note.

Cite a book this way.[1] Do this if the book has two authors.[2] Do this when it has more than two authors.[3] Do this if the book has one or more editors.[4] A chapter from a book appears like this.[5] Cite a document from a printed collection this way.[6] Cite a journal article like this.[7] This is how you cite a web source.[8]

Cite a newspaper like this (start with the title if no author appears).[9] Cite a primary document this way.[10] Do this if there is no author.[11]

To cite a source for the second time, simply use the author’s last name and the page number.[12] If you are citing multiple works by the same author, the second (and subsequent) footnotes must include a keyword from the title.[13]

[1] Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (New York: Pelican Books,

1969), 177.

[2]Michael Dodson and Laura N. O'Shaughnessy, Nicaragua's Other Revolution: Religious Faith and Political Struggle (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990), 37-43, 67.

[3]Martin Greenberger et al, Networks for Research and Education: Sharing of Computer and Information Resources Nationwide (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1974), 50.

[4] Donald N. McCloskey, ed., The Applied Theory of Price, (New York: Macmillan, 1985), 24, 29-30.

[5] James Anderson, “Walk the Walk,” in Overused Phrases, ed. Patrick Johnson (New York: Pseudo Press, 2007), 234-40, 277.

[6] Willie Wilson, “Letter to President Something or Other,” in Really Important Sources, ed. Randy Johnson and Jane Lewis (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002), 35-37.

[7]Louise M. Rosenblatt, “The Transactional Theory: Against Dualisms,” College English 54 (1993): 380-82.

[8]Dwight D. Eisenhower, “Farewell Address,” American Rhetoric < com/speeches/dwightdeisenhowerfarewell.html> (accessed October 25, 2008).

[9] Tyler Marshall, “200th Birthday of Grimms Celebrated,” Los Angeles Times, 15 March 1985, sec. 1A, p. 3.

[10] Nikita Khrushchev, “Letter From Chairman Khrushchev to President Johnson,” August 5, 1964, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, Volume I, 123-4. IF FROM THE WEB: Nikita Khrushchev, “Letter From Chairman Khrushchev to President Johnson,” August 5, 1964, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, Volume I < www/about_state/history/vol_i/255_308.html > (accessed October 25, 2008).

[11] “Guatemala—General Plan of Action,” September 11, 1953, Digital National Security Archive < (accessed October 25, 2008).

[12] Burke, 178; “Guatemala.”

[13] Williams, Communism, 27; Jones, “Containment,” 382.