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Chicago - book

Chicago (footnote & bibliography) style uses in-text citations, footnotes and a bibliography. 

Check with your lecturer whether they require the full footnote and shortened footnote, or just the shortened footnote with your bibliography.

In-text citations

Add a superscript number in your text to show when you are using another person's ideas or words. 

... as described by Cowan, this has only recently been identified.

Footnotes

The in-text citation directs the reader to a note (footnote) at the bottom of the page. The footnote contains information about the source you are citing, include the page number(s) of the page/paragraph within the item you are referring to. When citing the same source again, use the shorter footnote formats.

Footnotes are placed in numerical order at the bottom of the page. On a new page, footnote numbering continues. In a new chapter, footnote numbering starts from 1.

One author

Two or three authors

Four to ten authors

Eleven or more authors

Organisation as author

Unknown author

Edited book

Chapter/section by the author of the book

Chapter/section in an edited book

Chapter/section with a Book Series Title

Citing the same source again

Bibliography

Add a full bibliography to the end of your essay. This is a list of all sources cited in your work (except personal communications), plus any appropriate background readings not cited, arranged alphabetically by the author's last name. 

The first line of each reference should be aligned with the left margin. Second and subsequent lines should be indented three spaces (0.3cm).

Please see the Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition) if your work does not require a full bibliography.

In the bibliography, specify which edition of the book you have consulted, as shown in the examples below.

For electronic sources (such as e-books and e-journals) add either the Digital Object Identifier (DOI), e.g., https://doi.org/10.1080/1057356030207; the stable URL; or the database name at the end of the bibliographic reference.

One author

Two or three authors

Four to ten authors

Eleven or more authors

Organisation as an author

Unknown author

Edited book

Chapter/section by the author of the book

Chapter/section in an edited book

Chapter/section with a Book Series Title


Bibliography for the Chicago section of Referen©ite

The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org.ezproxy.auckland.ac.nz

For further information please consult this source directly.

 

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