CITING IN CHICAGO STYLE
CITING IN CHICAGO
Book:
1. Author, Title: Subtitle (Published City: Publishing Company,
Publish Date), pages.
Website:
1. “Site Title,” last modified date, full url address.
2. “Site Title,” date accessed, full url address.
SOURCE CARDS (THE FRONT)
Source Cards
Mr. Vallery
1. Mann, Elizabeth. The Roman Colosseum. New York: Mikaya
Press, 1998.
Numbered citation in
Chicago format.
This is the first source
on the first card, so
it’s numbered “1”.
Your Name
SOURCE CARDS (THE BACK)
Your Name
Vallery
Notes that you
have taken from
the source. This
includes
information you’ve
summarized as well
as quoted.
Both need to be
properly sourced!
Source Title
The Roman Coliseum
Great arena located in ancient Rome, seated 50,000 people.
In ruins today. One of the most recognizable landmarks. (pg. 7)
“Contests were held there between gladiators and between
people and animals. Christians were fed to the lions there.” (pg. 21)
Bloody contests held there symbolize the decadence of the
Roman Empire.
(pg. 63)
Page numbers
where the
information is
originally
located.
Remember, you
need to use at
least two nonweb sources.
FOOTNOTES
If this long strand of text is part of my essay about dogs, cats, unicorns and rainbows,
the proper format for in-text citations would to use a superscript number at the end
of the sentence, as I have done here.1
The proper format would also include either a footnote at the bottom of the page.
The first time a source is cited, the full version of the citation must be included.2
Afterwards, a shortened version of just the source’s title is acceptable.
This is easily done in Microsoft Word.3
1 Author, Adam, Book A: This book is great. (Boston: Book Company, 2009), p. 17.
2 “Webpage B.” Website A. modified January 2, 2007. http://website.com/index
3 Book A, p. 32.
DON’T FORGET THAT YOU NEED A
BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE AS WELL
MUST BE SORTED ALPHABETICAL
NOW THAT YOU KNOW HOW, HERE’S THE TOOL
http://www.citationmachine.net/chicago/cite-a-book
https://www.citethisforme.com/
It won’t cite everything but will get you started.