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, Chicago describes conventions for organizing footnotes or endnotes, as well as bibliographic citations. Chicago allows scholars accurately and thoroughly to describe 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.

Chicago Style Pointers (pdf)

Sample Chicago Bibliography (pdf)

Print

Book

Chapter in Edited Book

Book Review

Print Journal Article

Government Document

Map

Translation

Exhibition Review

Musical Composition (Score)

Electronic

Web Site

Journal Article (Library Database)

Newspaper Article (Library Database)

e-Book

Audiovisual

Radio or TV Program

Sound Recording

Film or Video

Art Work

Live Event

Interview

Performance

Lecture