Example of Chicago Manual Style of Citation
What is an example of Chicago Manual Style of citation? The Chicago Manual of Style provides comprehensive guidance for citing books, articles and various additional materials in the bibliography, reference lists and notes of a manuscript. Specific provisions are made for citing electronic media to account for the creation of published material now available on the Internet. While individual citations for different types of sources will vary slightly in format, they all contain some very similar information.
Chicago Manual Style Citation Example
The following example shows how to cite a work of fiction in note, bibliography and reference list format in the Chicago Manual of Style. The work used to generate the citation example is The Third Option by Vince Flynn.
- Note: 1. Vince Flynn, The Third Option (New York: Pocket Books, 2000), 72.
- Bibliography: Flynn, Vince. The Third Option. New York: Pocket Books, 2000.
- Reference: Flynn, V. 2000.The Third Option. New York: Pocket Books, 2000.
Common Citation Format
Books, articles and additional materials all will have certain common information:
- author (or editor or compiler)
- title and usually the subtitle
- the date of publicatin
Books will include the publisher and place of publication while articles from journals will give the journal name, volume and issue number and the page numbers of the article. Looking at the above examples, notes will be numbered while bibliography and reference lists are not numbered but rather presented in alphabetical order. Online works will also include retrieval information, including the URL and the date of access. Should a given work cited in the bibliography or reference list be excessively long due to title or subtitle, there are provisions for making the complete citation in the reference list and then using an abbreviated form in the notes list to avoid excessive documentation. A Chicago Manual of Style should be consulted for the complete list of formatting guidelines.