Chicago citation style is used primarily in the humanities, including art history, history, literature, and politics. It may also be used in the sciences and social sciences. Chicago style has two formats.
In Chicago (Notes and Bibliography) style a note should be made anytime another work is directly quoted, paraphrased, or summarized. A corresponding note is used at the end of the sentence or clause in which the reference is used. It should include the following elements:
The first entry of the source should include full publication information; subsequent listings of the same source may be shortened to author’s last name, a shortened form of the title, and the page number of the cited passage.
Journal Article
Book
Journal Article
Gold, Susanna W. "The Death of Cleopatra /the Birth of Freedom: Edmonia Lewis at the New World's Fair." Biography 35, no. 2 (2012): 318-341.
Book
Morris, J. B. Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism: College, Community, and the Fight for Freedom and Equality in Antebellum America. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2014.
Sources are briefly cited in the text, usually in parentheses, by the author’s last name, year of publication, and page number of the source cited when following the Chicago Author-Date style.
Full bibliographic information for each in-text citation is provided in a reference list.
Examples of the In-text citations and the corresponding reference list for a journal article and book..
(Dittmar and Schemske 2023, 475)
(Kwon 2022, 1842–43)
Reference List
Dittmar, Emily L., and Douglas W. Schemske. 2023. “Temporal Variation in Selection Influences Microgeographic Local Adaptation.” American Naturalist 202 (4): 471–85. https://doi.org/10.1086/725865.
Kwon, Hyeyoung. 2022. “Inclusion Work: Children of Immigrants Claiming Membership in Everyday Life.” American Journal of Sociology 127 (6): 1818–59. https://doi.org/10.1086/720277.