MCM 151 - Saidel

Chicago Style 

Chicago style is a documentation style used in media, history, journalism and other humanities fields and uses footnotes or endnotes.  As with any citation style you can get formatted citations ready to cut and paste from library databases.  However, if you get your sources from other places, you may need to create your citation from scratch.  If you need to format your citation yourself, you can use a quick guide with examples to properly format and use the citation.  Here is a list of quick guides and websites to help you with examples and explanations for Chicago style:

• The Chicago Manual of Style Website
  • Official guide from the University of Chicago Press.  This link goes to the quick guide.
• Chicago/Turabian Documentation
  • The Writing Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• OWL Purdue Chicago
  • The University of Purdue has a great collection of quick guides for each citation style.  Their guides provide both general guidance and specific examples for each exact type of resource you might need a citation for.  The easiest way to use the OWL guides is to take a look at the menu on the left side of the page.  Look at the type of resource you need a citation for (for example a book, or a journal article or a website).  Choose that type of resource on the left side menu and go to that page.  You will see a little formula showing you exactly how to create a citation for that type of resource.  Just apply the example.  Be sure to match your citation exactly, down to the number of spaces, use of a period in the correct place, and whether or not something is italicized.