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Chicago/Turabian Reference Style Quick Guide
Notes-Bibliography
How to use this guide: This guide has been created for use when inserting foot or end notes into a
paper, and then compiling a bibliography from those notes. N represents how to format your citations
for notes, while B details how to format your citation for use within the bibliography.
Source: Turabian, Kate. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and
Researchers. 7 th ed. Edited by Wayne Booth, Gregory Colomb, and Joseph Williams. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
**See Chapters 16 and 17 for more information
Books
One Author:
N: Note number. Author’s First and Last Names, Title of Book: Subtitle of Book (Place of Publication:
Publisher’s Name, Date of Publication), page-page.
1. Jane Doe, Searching for an Identity: Escaping the Masses (Chicago: Anybody’s Press, 2009), 25-32.
B: Author’s Last Name, First Name. Title of Book: Subtitle of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher’s Name, Date of
Publication.
Doe, Jane. Searching for an Identity: Escaping the Masses. Chicago: Anybody’s Press, 2009.
Two Authors: List both authors, separated by the word and.
N: 2. Jane Doe and John Adams, Searching for an Identity: Escaping the Masses (Chicago: Anybody’s Press,
2009), 25-32.
B: Doe, Jane, and John Adams. Searching for an Identity: Escaping the Masses. Chicago: Anybody’s Press, 2009.
Three Authors: Include all authors in note and bib, using the word and before the last author.
N: 3. Jane Doe, John Adams, and Henry Jackson, Searching for an Identity: Escaping the Masses (Chicago:
Anybody’s Press, 2009), 25-32.
B: Doe, Jane, John Adams, and Henry Jackson. Searching for an Identity: Escaping the Masses. Chicago: Anybody’s
Press, 2009.
Four or More Authors: List first author in note, then follow with et al. In bibliography, list each author.
N: 4. Jane Doe et al., Searching for an Identity: Escaping the Masses (Chicago: Anybody’s Press, 2009), 25-32.
B: Doe, Jane, John Adams, Henry Jackson, and Sarah Powell. Searching for an Identity: Escaping the Masses.
Chicago: Anybody’s Press, 2009.
Editor instead of Author: include the abbreviation ed., after editor names. For multiple editors, follow rules for
multiple authors.
N: 5. Jane Doe, ed., Searching for an Identity: Escaping the Masses (Chicago: Anybody’s Press, 2009), 25-32.
B: Doe, Jane, ed. Searching for an Identity: Escaping the Masses. Chicago: Anybody’s Press, 2009.
Editor in addition to Author: Include the editor information after the title of the book.
N: 6. Jane Doe, Searching for an Identity: Escaping the Masses, ed. Sam Coleman (Chicago: Anybody’s Press,
2009), 25-32.
B: Doe, Jane. Searching for an Identity: Escaping the Masses. Edited by Sam Coleman. Chicago: Anybody’s Press,
2009.
Created by Rebecca Koga
Revised 2/18/2011

Article from a print journal*
N: Note Number. Author First and Last Name, “Title of Article: Subtitle,” Title of Journal Volume, no. # (Date
of Publication): Page-page.
7. Stan Connor, “Losing My Mind: Raising a Teenage Daughter,” Parenting 23, no. 2 (October 2005): 21.
B: Author Last Name, First Name. “Title of Article: Subtitle.” Title of Journal Volume, no. # (Date of Publication):
Page-page.
Connor, Stan. “Losing My Mind: Raising a Teenage Daughter.” Parenting 23, no. 2 (October 2005): 21.
Online Article*
N: Note Number. Author First and Last Name, “Title of Article: Subtitle,” Title of Journal Volume, no. # (Date
of publication), Page number (if available) or under “Subheading or Other Locator,” URL (accessed Date).
8. Jan Brady, “Growing Up with Marsha: Life as a Middle Sister,” The Brady Files 23, no. 4 (October 2009),
under “Boy Friends vs. Boyfriends,” http://www.thebradyfiles.com/Jan/middlesister.html (accessed September 3,
2010).
B: Author Last Name, First Name. “Title of Article: Subtitle.” Title of Journal Volume, no. # (Date of publication).
URL (accessed date).
Brady, Jan. “Growing Up with Marsha: Life as a Middle Sister.” The Brady Files 23, no. 4 (October 2009).
http://www.thebradyfiles.com/Jan/middlesister.html (accessed September 3, 2010).
Article From a Database* Follow Online Article instructions, but include full URL which should include database
name.
N: 9. Silver Smith, “Welding and Other Hobbies,” The Welder 32, no. 34 (January 2011): 13,
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-362X%28200012%2997%3A12%3B2-Q (accessed January 12, 2011).
B: Smith, Silver. “Welding and Other Hobbies.” The Welder 32, no.34 (January 2011): 12-18.
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-362X%28200012%2997%3A12%3B2-Q (accessed January 12, 2011).
*A note about articles: If there is no issue number, remove the comma following the volume number. Volume
(Date): …
Chapter in an Edited Book
N: Note number. Chapter Author First and Last Name, “Title of Chapter: Subtitle,” in Title of Book: Subtitle,
ed. Editor First and Last Name (Place of Publication: Publisher Name, Date of publication), page-page (of
information cited).
10. Fria Smith, “It’s Getting Cold in Here: The Decrease in Ocean Temperatures,” in Global Warming for
Everyone, ed. Cal Hopps (Houston: Ozone Press, 2009), 34-36.
B: Chapter Author Last Name, First Name. “Title of Chapter: Subtitle.” In Title of Book: Subtitle, edited by Editor
First and Last Name, page-page (of chapter). Place of Publication: Publisher, Date of Publication.
Smith, Fria. “It’s Getting Cold in Here: The Decrease in Ocean Temperatures.” In Global Warming for Everyone,
edited by Cal Hopps, 32-48. Houston: Ozone Press, 2009.
Omitted Sources: Chicago/Turabian Style does not accommodate the citation of the Bible, newspaper articles,
dictionaries, encyclopedias, or many other well-known sources within citation lists. See page 150 of A Manual For
Writers of Research Papers, Theses and Dissertations for an extensive list of other sources that may be omitted
from lists, or for more directions on how to cite these sources within the notes of your paper.
Indentation: Notes are always indented according to the format of other paragraphs within the text of the paper,
following lines are aligned left. Bibliographies have a hanging indentation: the first line is flush left while remaining
lines are indented the same space as the paragraphs within the text of the paper. For example:
Paragraph text paragraph text paragraph text paragraph text paragraph text paragraph text paragraph
text paragraph text paragraph text paragraph text paragraph text paragraph text paragraph. 1
1. Susan Black, Somewhere Over the Rainbow: How to Dream Big and Actually Achieve Your Goals (New
York: Garland Publications, 1995), 25-32.
Black, Susan. Somewhere Over the Rainbow: How to Dream Big and Actually Achieve Your Goals. New York:
Garland Publications, 1995.