Selkirk College Library: Chicago Style Guide: Welcome

Introduction

The Notes and Bibliography system of citation is used in the humanities, and especially in History courses. An excellent guide can be found on the Chicago Manual of Style website: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html

This guide provides examples of how to cite sources commonly used by Selkirk College students.

When you use another person's ideas in your paper, even if you put the author's ideas into your own words, you must cite (i.e. credit) the source.

Endnotes or footnotes are credits in the body of a paper.
A bibliography is a complete list of all the sources consulted in the course of writing a paper. The bibliography begins on a separate page, entitled “Bibliography,” at the end of the paper.
Short notes. If you include a bibliography then you can use short notes in your paper. Only short notes are shown in this guide. See the Chicago Manual for examples of full notes.

Tips

N: Note (short) B: Bibliographic citation Numbering in italics refers to sections in The Chicago Manual of Style (print ed.)
Authors or editors	Number of authors or editors 13.23 N: List up to two authors or editors by last name. If more than two, only list the first author, followed by et al. B: List up to six authors or editors. If more than six, only list the first three, followed by et al. Only the first author's name is inverted
	No Author 13.81 Begin the citation with the title
	Organization as Author 13.86 If an organization (group) is both the author and the publisher, list them as both in the bibliography

Titles

Italics. Use italics for the title of a book, journal, magazine, newspaper or video. “Quotation marks.” Use quotation marks around the titles of article, chapters, poems
and other works that are part of a larger work.

Dates

Electronic Sources 13.15
Give one of the following dates:
▪   Publication date
▪   Last modified, revised or updated
▪   Date accessed (only if neither of the above are given)

Page Numbers

13.20

Notes
Give the page number(s) from which the cited information was taken.

No Page Numbers
Electronic sources such as e-books or online newspapers may not include page numbers. A chapter or paragraph number or a section heading may be given instead.

URLs

Uniform Resource Locators

13.14

A URL should be included for sources found online. The order of preference is:

▪ DOI (digital object identifier). Use the DOI if one is given. A DOI forms a permanent URL that begins https://doi/org/

▪ Persistent URL. For sources from a library database, use the persistent URL (if there is no DOI). Persistent URLs are also called permalinks, stable URLs, or document URLs.

▪ URL. For sources found on the Internet, give the URL from the browser address bar (if no other URL is provided).

Formatting

Line Spacing
▪ Double space: The body of the paper and between entries in the notes and the bibliography.
▪ Single space: Within entries in the notes and bibliography.

Font. 12 pt., serif (such as Times New Roman)