Chicago Style Reference Samples
Author-Date System historically used in physical and natural sciences now gaining adherents in the socials sciences and humanities.
BOOKS
Single Author
Beeler, John. 1971. Warfare in Feudal Europe: 730-1200. Ithaca, New York:
Cornell University Press.
Two or MoreAuthors
Bain, Joe S., Richard E. Caves and Julius Margolis. 1966.Northern California's
Water Industry: The Comparative Efficiency of Public Enterprise in
Developing a Scarce Natural Resource. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns
Hopkins Press.
Editor(s)
Wiley, Bell I., ed. 1980. Slaves no more: Letters from Liberia, 1833-1869.
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
An Edition
Smart, Ninian. 1976. The Religious Experience of Mankind. 2nd ed.
New York: Scribner's Sons.
Organization as Author
International Monetary Fund (IMF). 1977. Surveys of African economies.
Vol. 7, Algeria, Mali, Morocco, and Tunisia. Washington, D.C.: International
Monetary Fund.
Citing a Multi-Volume Work as a Whole
Wright, Sewall. 1968-78. Evolution and the genetics of populations.4 vols. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
Citing a Particular Volume of a Multi-Volume Work
Ncombwai, Numi. 1988. Epidemiology in Africa. Vol. 2. New York:
Hershall and Son.
Multi-Volume Work Within a Series
Mummerston, Broderick. 1990. An introduction to Inca sports and rituals.
2 vols. Ancient American Culture Series. Houston: H. D. Dobbs.
Article(s) in a Single Volume from a Multi-Volume Work
Cochran, Thomas C. (1993). Public Finance. In Thomas C. Cochran (Ed.). The
New American State Papers: 1789-1860. (Vol. 6).Wilmington, Delaware:
Scholarly Resources, Inc., 95-122.
ARTICLES
Single Author (magazine)
Ratnesar, R. 1999. Not Gone, but Forgotton?: Why Americans have stopped
talking about homelessness. Time, 8 February, 30-31.
Two or More Authors (journal paginated by volume)
Kulcinski, G.L. and J.F. Santarius. 1998. Nuclear fusion: Advanced fuels under
debate. Nature 396: 724-725.
Two or More Authors (journal paginated by volume with month)
Orshansky, Mollie. 1965. Counting the poor: Another look at the poverty profile.
Social Security Bulletin 28 (January): 3-29.
Two or More Authors (journal paginated by issue)
Klimoski, R., and S. Palmer. 1993. The ADA and the hiring process in
organizations. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research,
45(2): 10-36.
Newspaper
Hilton, Donna. 2003. Several bicycle thefts reported. Siftings Herald,
2 December, Sec. A, p. 3.
EBSCOHost
Lewis, Kate Bohner. 1998. Senate Approves New Alternative Fuel.
National Petroleum News 90(9): 36. MasterFILE Premier,
EBSCOHost (12 November 1999).
ProQuest Direct
Montefiore, Simon Sebag. 1996. How the nineties have become the eighties.
The Spectator 277(8786): 9-11. ProQuest Research Library Complete,
ProQuest (15 September 2003).
REFERENCE RESOURCES
Encyclopedia -- Reference books used as sources are not included in the Reference List but are cited in the text as follows:
In his article on science fiction in the 1995 edition of the Encyclopedia Americana, Theodore Sturgeon says that the phrase, science fiction, was created by Hugo Gernsback.
OR
Theodore Sturgeon says that the phrase, science fiction, was created by Hugo Gernsback (Encyclopedia Americana, 1995 ed., s.v. "science fiction.").
Contemporary Authors (Original Series)
Velazquez, Sheila. 1988. Gershwin, Ira 1896 - 1983. In Contemporary Authors,
edited by Scott Peacock. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company.
Contemporary Authors New Revision (CANR)
Ross, Jean W. 1982. Schulz, Charles Monroe 1922 - . In Contemporary Authors
New Revision Series, edited by Ann Evory. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research
Company.
Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB)
Pettis, J. 1988. Margaret Walker. In Dictionary of Literary Biography, edited by Trudier
Harris. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Inc.
ERIC DOCUMENT (ED xxx xxx)
Lahti, Janet et al. 1978. A Follow-Up Study of the Oregon Project: Final Report.
Portland State Univ., OR: Regional Research Inst. for Human Services.
ERIC, ED 165 880.
INTERNET SOURCES
Web Page
Schafer, Nancy Imelda. 1998. Maya Angelou. Empire:Zine Website by Spyder's
Empire [cited February 8, 1999]. Available from World Wide Web:
<http://www.spydersempire.com/empirezine/spotlight/published/april/maya1.htm>.
E-mail
Joe Schmo (personal communication, November 24, 2003) informing me how to cite
an e-mail in a Chicago style reference list.
CD ROM SOURCES
Chaucer
When Was Chaucer Born?. 1995. Chaucer: Life and Times [CD ROM]. Woodbridge,
Conneticut: Primary Source Media.