The Chicago Manual of Style has two formats for citations: Notes-Bibliography and Author-Date. This page will focus on the Notes-Bibliography format. The links below will take you directly to sections in the online Chicago Manual of Style:
Section name |
Chapter and section |
Basic structure of a note | Chapter 14, Section 20 |
Basic structure of a bibliographic entry | Chapter 14, Section 21 |
Notes and bibliography--examples and variations | Chapter 14, Section 23 |
If you are not sure how to cite sources, contact the WTAMU Writing Center or email a librarian.
These examples show you the basics of the Notes and Bibliography system. The sample notes show full citations followed by shortened citations for the same sources. Sample bibliography entries follow the notes. For more details and many more examples, check out chapter 14 of The Chicago Manual of Style.
1. Zadie Smith, Swing Time (New York: Penguin Press, 2016), 315-16.
2. Brian Grazer and Charles Fishman, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015), 12.
4. Grazer and Fishman, Curious Mind, 37.
Grazer, Brian, and Charles Fishman. A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Smith, Zadie. Swing Time. New York: Penguin Press, 2016.
1. Susan Satterfield, "Livy and the Pax Deum," Classical Philology, 111, no.2 (April 2016): 170.
2. Shao-Hsun Keng, Chun-Hung Lin, and Peter Orazem, "Expanding College Access in Taiwan, 1978-2014: Effects on Graduate Quality and Income Inequality," Journal of Human Capital 11, no.1 (Spring 2017): 9-10. https://doi.org/10.1086-690235.
3. Peter LaSall, "Conundrum: A Story about Reading," New England Review 38, no.1 (2017), Project MUSE.
4. Satterfield, "Livy," 172-73.
5. Keng, Lin, and Orazem, "Expanding College Access," 23.
6. LaSalle, "Conundrum," 101.
Keng, Shao-Hsun, Chung-Hung Lin, and Peter F. Orazem. "Expanding College Access in Taiwan, 1978-2014: Effects on Graduate Quality and Income Inequality." Journal of Human Capital 11, no.1 (Spring 2017): 1-34. https://doi.org/10.1086/690235.
LaSalle, Peter. "Condundrum: A Story about Reading." New England Review 38, no.1 (2017): 95-109. Project MUSE.
Satterfield, Susan. "Livy and the Pax Deum," Classical Philology 111, no.2 (April 2016), 165-76.