Chicago Manual of Style
This quick reference guide is based on the 15th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. Several copies of The Chicago Manual of Style can be found behind the reference desk in the Rivera library [REF Z253 U69 2003].
The examples in this guide follow the Reference List format of The Chicago Manual of Style.
BOOK BY ONE AUTHOR
Blinksworth, Roger. 1987. Converging on the evanescent. San Francisco: Threshold Publications.
BOOK BY TWO TO TEN AUTHORS
Minear, Larry, Colin Scott, and Thomas G. Weiss. 1996. The news media, civil war, and humantarian action. Boulder, CO: L. Rienner.
BOOKS WITH MORE THAN TEN AUTHORS, list the first seven authors followed by et al.
REPEATED AUTHOR
If you are listing multiple works by the same author, a 3-em dash replaces the author's name after the first listing.
Smith, Joann. 1993. Preparing the postwar period. New York: Blackwell.
___. 1996. What really happened when the war ended. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Note: If another author or editor is added, the author's full name must be repeated.
NO AUTHOR
Burden of anonymity. 1948. Boston: Humanities Press.
EDITOR
Wiley, Robert, ed. 1988. Slaves no more. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
EDITORS
Wiley, Robert, Margaret Skelton, Tim Peterson, eds. 1994. Letters, stories, and poems from the underground suburbia. Chicago: Namsorg and DeLor.
ORGANIZATION AS AUTHOR
Modern Language Association of America (MLA). 1975. MLA International Bibliography. New York: Modern Language Association of America.
CHAPTER OR PART OF A BOOK
Phibbs, Barbara. 1997. Herrlisheim: Diary of a battle. In The other side of time: A combat surgeon in World War II, 117-63. Boston: Little, Brown.
SUBSEQUENT EDITIONS
Smart, Brendan. 1996. The religious experience of mankind. 2nd ed. New York: Scribner's Sons.
MULTIVOLUME WORKS
Citing the whole work
Wright, Sewall. 1968-1978. Evolution and the genetics of populations. 4 vols. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.
Citing a specific volume of the work
Farmwinkle, William. 1999. Humor of the American Midwest. Vol. 2 of Survey of American humor. Boston: Plenum Press.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Bennett, John. 1946. The interpretation of Pueblo culture. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 2: 361-74.
MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Roberts, Karen. 1990. Becoming attached. Atlantic, February, 35-70.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
Finnonian, Albert. 1990. The Iron Curtain rises. Los Angeles Times, 7 March, final edition.
BOOK REVIEW
Lardner, Susan. 1980. Third eye open. Review of The salt eaters, by Toni Case Bambara. New Yorker.May 5.
ARTICLE FROM A DATABASE
Thomas, Trevor M. "Wales: Land of Mines." Geographical Review 46, no. 1 (1956): 59-81. http://www.jstor.org.
WEB SITE
Federation of American Scientists. Resolution Comparison: Reading license plates and headlines. http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/resolve5.htm.
