Liberal Arts quick guide to Chicago Manual of Style (notes and bibliography)
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Item type |
Notes |
Short notes |
Bibliography/reference list |
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Single-authored book |
Jon McGregor, Even the Dogs (London: Bloomsbury, 2011), 16. [Here and throughout, the final number refers to page referenced] |
McGregor, Even the Dogs, 16. |
McGregor, Jon. Even the Dogs. London: Bloomsbury, 2011. [Note the lack of brackets in references in the bibliography; full stops rather than commas] |
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Book by two authors |
Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, 2nd ed. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 103. [Note that information is given about the edition number after the title but only if it is not the first edition] |
Gilbert and Gubar, Madwoman in the Attic, 103. |
Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. [Note that only the first author’s name is given surname first] |
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Edited book by one editor |
Mike Finn, ed., The Gove Legacy: Education in Britain After the Coalition (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2015), 37. |
Finn, The Gove Legacy, 37. |
Mike Finn, ed., The Gove Legacy: Education in Britain After the Coalition (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2015), 37. |
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Edited book by three editors |
Susan Belasco, Ed Folsom, and Kenneth M. Price, eds., Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays (Newhaven: Nebraska Press, 2007), 72. |
Belasco, Folsom, and Price, Sesquicentennial Essays, 72. |
Belasco, Susan, Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price, eds. Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays. Newhaven: Nebraska Press, 2007. |
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Chapter in an edited book |
Henry David Thoreau, “Walking,” in The Making of the American Essay, ed. John D’Agata (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2016), 182. |
Thoreau, “Walking,” 182. |
Thoreau, Henry David. 2016. “Walking.” In The Making of the American Essay, edited by John D’Agata, 167–95.Minneapolis: Graywolf Press. [Note that the bibliographic reference gives the page range for the entire chapter rather than the page referenced] |
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Translated book |
Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, trans. Gregory Rabassa (London: Viking, 2014), 25. |
Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, 25. |
Márquez, Gabriel García. One Hundred Years of Solitude. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. London: Viking, 2014.
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E-books [For books consulted online, include a URL or the name of the database. For other types of e-books, name the format. If no fixed page numbers are available, cite a section title or a chapter if available] |
Matthew K. Gold, ed., Debates in the Digital Humanities (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016), 33,
Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, Deliberating American Monetary Policy: A Textual Analysis, (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2014), 12, ProQuest Ebrary.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (New York: Penguin Classics, 2007), chap. 3, Kindle. |
Gold, Digital Humanities, 33.
Schonhardt-Bailey, Deliberating American Monetary Policy, 12.
Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chap. 3. |
Gold, Matthew K., ed. 2016. Debates in the Digital Humanities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Schonhardt-Bailey, Cheryl. 2014. Deliberating American Monetary Policy: A Textual Analysis. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2014. ProQuest Ebrary.
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. 2007. New York: Penguin Classics. Kindle. |
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Journal article (print) |
Eileen Yeo, “Christianity in Chartist Struggle, 1838-1842,” Past and Present 91, no.6 (1981): 123. |
Yeo, “Christianity in Chartist Struggle," 123. |
Yeo, Eileen. 1981. “Christianity in Chartist Struggle, 1838-1842.” Past and Present 91, no.6: 109-139. [Note that the bibliographic reference gives the page range for the entire article rather than the page referenced] |
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Journal article (online) [Include URL, name of database or DOI] |
Michael G. Kelly, “Utopian Studies in Ireland,” Utopian Studies 27, no. 3 (2016): 457,
Amy Dru Stanley, “Instead of Waiting for the Thirteenth Amendment: The War Power, Slave Marriage, and Inviolate Human Rights,” American Historical Review 115, no. 3 (2010): 755, doi:10.1086/ahr.115.3.732.
Peter LaSalle, “Conundrum: A Story about Reading,” New England Review 38, no. 1 (2017): 95, Project MUSE. |
Kelly, “Utopian Studies in Ireland,” 457.
Stanley, “Instead of Waiting,” 755.
LaSalle, “Conundrum,” 101. |
Kelly, Michael G. “Utopian Studies in Ireland.” Utopian Studies 27, no. 3 (2016): 457-476.
Stanley, Amy Dru. “Instead of Waiting for the Thirteenth Amendment: The War Power, Slave Marriage, and Inviolate Human Rights.” American Historical Review 115, no. 3 (2010): 732-65. doi:10.1086/ahr.115.3.732. LaSalle, Peter. “Conundrum: A Story about Reading.” New England Review 38, no. 1 (2017): 95–109. Project MUSE. |
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News or magazine articles
[In print editions a page number is given rather than a paragraph number and the URL is omitted] |
George Monbiot, “Peer Review and Scientific Publishing. Scientific Publishing is a Rip-off: We Fund the Research – it Should be Free,” Guardian, September 13, 2018, para. 1, https://www.theguardian.com/
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Monbiot, “Scientific Publishing,” para. 1. |
Monbiot, George. “Peer Review and Scientific Publishing. Scientific Publishing is a rip-off: We Fund the Research – it Should be Free.” Guardian, September 13, 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/ |
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Website [If possible include date that the site was last modified; if this information is not available include date of access instead] |
“Why is Referencing Important?,” University of New South Wales, last modified June 24, 2013, para. 4,
The Quipu Project, last accessed September 13, 2018, para. 5, https://interactive.
bell hooks, “Femme Feminista,” May 11, 2015,
[note that bell hooks isn’t capitalized because the author chooses to use lower case; it is customary to follow the author’s expressed wishes, though some publishers do not] |
University of New South Wales, “Why is Referencing Important?,” para. 4.
The Quipu Project, para. 5.
hooks, “Femme Feminista.” |
University of New South Wales. “Why is Referencing Important?.” Last modified June 24, 2013.
The Quipu Project. Last accessed September 13, 2018. https://interactive
hooks, bell. “Femme Feminista.” May 11, 2015. |
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Film [note medium at end of reference; e.g. VHS/DVD/online. Provide URL if online] |
Alfonso Cuarón, dir. Gravity, Burbank, CA: Warner Bros. Pictures, 2014. Blu-ray Disc, 1080p HD, 01:22:30. |
Cuarón, Gravity, 01:22:30. |
Cuarón, Alfonso, dir. Gravity. Burbank, CA:Warner Bros. Pictures, 2014. Blu-ray Disc, 1080p HD. |
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Television episode |
Russ Mayberry, dir., The Brady Bunch, Season 3, episode 10, “Her Sister’s Shadow,” aired November 19, 1971, on ABC, |
Mayberry, “Her Sister’s Shadow.” |
Mayberry, Russ, dir. The Brady Bunch. Season 3, episode 10, “Her Sister’s Shadow.” Aired November 19, 1971, on ABC. |
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Album |
Stormzy, Gang Signs and Prayer, #Merky Records, 2017, Spotify. |
Stormzy, Gang Signs and Prayer. |
Stormzy. Gang Signs and Prayer. #Merky Records, 2017. Spotify. |
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Song on album |
Stormzy, “Mr Skeng,” track 7 on Gang Signs and Prayer, #Merky Records, 2017, Spotify, ll.56-72. [“ll.” identifies a range of lines in the song/track; use “l.” to refer to one line] |
Stormzy, “Mr Skeng,” ll.56-72. |
Stormzy. “Mr Skeng.” Gang Signs and Prayer. #Merky Records, 2017. Spotify. |
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Tweet |
Conan O’Brien (@ConanOBrien), “In honor of Earth Day, I’m recycling my tweets,” Twitter, April 22, 2015, 11:10 a.m., https://twitter.com/
[When quoting social media posts it is acceptable to work the essential information into the main body of your essay rather than using footnotes and a bibliography to reference.] |
O’Brien, Twitter post. |
O’Brien, Conan (@ConanOBrien). “In honor of Earth Day, I’m recycling my tweets.” Twitter, April 22, 2015, 11:10 a.m. https://twitter.com/ |