The Chicago Manual of Style sets the standard for scholarly publishing in the Humanities. Chicago offers two citation formats, the author-date reference format and the standard bibliographic format, each of which provides conventions for organizing footnotes or endnotes, as well as bibliographic citations. Chicago allows scholars accurately and thoroughly to denote and differentiate scriptural, classical, and archival, and other historical sources, as well as to represent the range of multimedia and other new electronic forms of publication.

The following examples demonstrate Chicago's standard bibliographic citation format, from the 15th edition (2003).

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Web

Blog Post

e-Book

Journal Article (Library Database)

Newspaper Article (Library Database)

Newspaper Article (Web Site)

Web Site

Audiovisual

Radio or TV Program (Broadcast)

CD

DVD

Art Work

Print

Book

Chapter in Edited Book

Book Review

Print Journal Article

Government Report

Map

Translation

Exhibition Review

Musical Composition (Score)

Live Event

Interview

Performance

Lecture