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CHICAGO DOCUMENTATION STYLE: BIBLIOGRAPHY PAGE

Most texts written in History (and some in other humanities disciplines) use Chicago style to cite
sources. Chicago-style documents include in-text superscript numbers referring to footnotes or
endnotes (see quicktip on “Chicago Documentation Style: Footnotes/Endnotes,” which includes
the notes for the sources on this page) along with a more detailed listing of sources in a
separate Bibliography page at the end of a document (see sample on back of this page).

The requirements for what to include in Bibliography entries are designed so that another
researcher could find and refer to the same sources you’ve included. Below are guidelines
adapted from Diana Hacker and Nancy Sommers’s A Writer’s Reference, 7th ed., that show the
basic principles of some common forms of Chicago Bibliography citation:

Book
1 2 3 4
1 Author(s)
2 Title and subtitle Burrows, Edwin G., and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford
3 City of publication
4 Publisher University Press, 1999.
5 Date of publication
5
Work in an anthology
1 2 3
1 Author
2 Title of work Pharoah, Sarah. “The Case of Sarah Pharoah.” In Early Native Literacies in New England: A Documentary
3 Title of anthology
4 Name of editor(s) and Critical Anthology, edited by Kristina Bross and Hilary E. Wyss, 86-87. Amherst: University of
5 Page numbers
6 City of publication Massachusetts Press, 2008. 4 5 6 7
7 Publisher
8 Date of publication 8

Journal article from a database

1 Author
2 Title of article 1 2
3 Title of journal
4 Volume and issue Souther, J. Mark. “The Disneyfication of New Orleans: The French Quarter as Facade in a Divided City.”
numbers
5 Date of publication Journal of American History 94, no. 3 (2007): 804-11. Academic Search Premier (28142054).
6 Page range
7 DOI, or database 3 4 5 6 7
name and accession
number (AN)

Short work from a website (include as many of these items as are available)
1 2 3
1 Author
2 Title of short work Whitman, Walt. “Remembrance of Erastus Haskell.” Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical
3 Title of site
4 Sponsor of site Society. Library of Congress. Accessed July 3, 2012. http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/nhnycw/al/
5 Publication or 4
al00/al00004/001v.jpg. 5 6
modified date, or
date of access if
no pub. date avail.
6 URL
 Here is an example of what a Chicago-style Bibliography page typically looks like. Using
standard formats for your entries enhances your credibility with academic readers, and
alphabetizing your list helps fellow researchers quickly locate the sources that you refer
to in the body of your text. For more formats & source types, visit
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/ or, for access to the full Chicago Manual of Style
online (16th edition), visit z.umn.edu/chicagostyle (access provided by University of
Minnesota Libraries).

Every entry begins Label your page Chicago-style Bibliographies have one-
flush left; additional “Bibliography” in inch margins all around. Single-space
lines are indented 0.5” the center of the each entry and double-space between
from the left margin. first line. entries, unless your instructor prefers
double-spacing throughout. Entries are
alphabetical by author’s last name, or, if
Bibliography no author, by title.
film or video The Big Lebowski. DVD. Directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen. 1998; Universal City, CA:
Universal Studios, 2008.

work in an anthology Bruffee, Kenneth. “Collaborative Learning and the ‘Conversation of Mankind.’” In The
Norton Book of Composition Studies, edited by Susan Miller, 545–62. New York: Norton, 2009.

 online newspaper article Fahim, Kareem. “School Official Apologizes for Removing Photo of Kiss.” New York Times,
June 26, 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/nyregion/26kiss.html.

 short work from a website Lee, Taehohn. “The Financial Crisis and Refugees.” Immigration History Research Center.
University of Minnesota. April 2, 2009. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ihrc/immigration/2009/04/
the_financial_crisis_and_refug.html.

book with 2 or 3 authors Peregoy, Suzanne, and Owen F. Boyle. Reading, Writing, and Learning in ESL. New York:
Longman, 1997.
book with one author
Puzo, Mario. The Godfather. New York: Signet, 1978.

 journal article from a database Redmon, Allen H. “How Many Lebowskis Are There? Genre, Spectatorial Authorship, and The Big
(when DOI, or Digital Object Lebowski.” Journal of Popular Film & Television 40, no. 2 (2012): 52–61. doi:10.1080/
Identifier, is available) 01956051.2011.613422

Sherman, Ben. Medic!: The Story of a Conscientious Objector in the Vietnam War. 2002. Random
 online book with one author House Digital, Inc, 2004. http://books.google.com/books?id=owO-MZI6WO0C.

translated work Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina. Translated by Joel Carmichael. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1960.

University of Minnesota. Immigration History Research Center. University of Minnesota.

 entire website http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/.

Villanueva, Victor. “Blind: Talking about the New Racism.” The Writing Center Journal 26,
print journal article no. 1 (2006): 3–19.

Wall, Brian. “‘Jackie Treehorn Treats Objects Like Women!’: Two Types of Fetishism in The Big
 journal article from a database Lebowski.” Camera Obscura 23, no. 69 (2008): 110–135. Academic Search Premier
(using AN, or Accession Number, (36323375).
because no DOI is available)

 = electronic resource