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Art Resources in WCSU Libraries: Chicago Style Citation Guide

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Chicago: PERIODICALS

EXAMPLE
Lastname, Firstname. “Title of Article.” Title of Periodical vol# (Year): Pages.

ARTICLE IN SCHOLARLY JOURNAL

Jackson, Richard. "Running Down the Up-Escalator: Regional Inequality in
    Papua New Guinea." Australian Geographer 14 (1979): 175-84.

ENTIRE ISSUE OR SPECIAL SECTION OF JOURNAL
Good, Thomas, ed. “Non-subject-matter Outcomes of Schooling.” Special
    issue, Elementary School Journall 99, no. 5 (1999).

ARTICLE IN POPULAR MAGAZINE
Weber, Bruce. "The Myth Maker: The Creative Mind of Novelist E. L.
    Doctorow." U.S. News and World Report, October 1985, 42.

ARTICLE IN NEWSPAPER
Camille, Andre. "Deciding Who Gets Dibs on Health-Care Dollars." Wall
    Street Journal
, (March 27, 1984): Section 1.

PERIODICAL PUBLISHED ANNUALLY
Wilson, G. M. 1917. A Survey of the Social Business Use of Arithmetic. In
    Sixteenth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education,
    20-22. Bloomington Ill. Public School Publishing Co.

Chicago: ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

When listing a web site in your bibliography, it may be difficult to find all the information for a full citation. Include as much of the following information as identifiable: author/sponsor, title of the site and its URL. Although individual authors may publish information on a web site, you will also find web resources created by an institution or organization.

WORLD WIDE WEB
Mortimer, Gail. “The William Faulkner Society Home Page”
     http://www.english.ufl.edu/faulkner/ (Accessed November 19 2008).

ARTICLE FROM LIBRARY DATABASE
Haglund, David G., and Tudor Onea. "Victory without Triumph: Theodore
    Roosevelt, Honour, and the Alaska Panhandle Boundary Dispute."
    Diplomacy & Statecraft
19, no. 1 (2008): 20-41. http://search.
    ebscohost.com/login.aspx? direct=true&db=ahl&AN=A800044643
    .01&site=ehost-live.

BLOG ENTRY
Catherine Austin Fitts’ Blog, http://solari.com/blog/?p=3620.

Chicago: BOOKS

EXAMPLE
Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year.

SINGLE AUTHOR
Franklin, John Hope. George Washington Williams: A Biography. Chicago:
    University of Chicago Press, 1985.

TWO OR THREE AUTHORS
Kernighan, Brian W., and Dennis M. Ritchie. The C Programming Language
     Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1978.

EDITOR OR COMPILER AS AUTHOR
von Hallberg, Robert, ed. Canons. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.

ARTICLE OR CHAPTER IN BOOK
Beech, Mary Higdon. “The Domestic Realm in the Lives of Hindu Women
    in Calcutta.” In Separate Worlds: Studies of Purdah in South Asia, edited
    by Hanna Papnanek and Gail Minaul, 110-38. Delhi: Chanakya, 1982.