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Style Guides: Chicago Manual of Style

Basic information on using style manuals for college research papers. This guide was created by Matthew Cox, Craig Saastamoinen, and Susan Weaver.

Chicago Manual of Style

Help with Chicago Style

This guide is part of The Chicago Manual of Style Online site. It gives common examples of materials cited in both the Chicago humanities style and the Chicago author-date system and includes citations for electronic formats.

 

Chicago Manual of Style Online

The Chicago Manual of Style Online

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Examples

NOTE:  The second and subsequent lines of all citations should be indented!

Book

Suzanne, Collins. The Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic Books, 2008.

eBook

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. New York: Penguin Classics, 2007. Kindle edition.

Online Journal from a Database:

Norton, Eric. 2011. "Turn On the Dark." School Library Journal 57, no. 8: 38-43. Academic Search Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed August 19, 2011).

Print Journal

Norton, Eric. 2011. "Turn On the Dark." School Library Journal 57, no. 8: 38-43.

Web Sites

De George, Dr. Robert. Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, "A History of Business Ethics." Last modified February 19,2005. Accessed June 6, 2012. http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas
​/business/conference/presentations
/business-ethics-history.html.