The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition (2024)

FAQs

How to cite Chicago style 17th edition? ›

Basic Format:

Author Last Name, First Name Middle Name or Initial. Year. Title of Longer Work or "Title of Shorter Work." Publication details like the publisher, editors, journal information, page numbers, etc.. URL or DOI.

Chicago style recommends citing ChatGPT in a Chicago footnote, treating it as a personal communication similar to an unpublished interview. Personal communications are non-retrievable sources and therefore shouldn't be included in your Chicago bibliography.

The Chicago Manual of Style (17th ed.). University of Chicago Press. 2017.

Author first name last name, Title of Book (Place of publication: publisher, year), page number(s). Albert Einstein, The Meaning of Relativity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1923), 44–45. Einstein, The Meaning of Relativity, 89.

Citations include the author of the post; the title of the post, in quotation marks; the title of the blog, in italics; the date of the post; and a URL. The word blog may be added (in parentheses) after the title of the blog. Blogs that are part of a larger publication should also include the name of that publication.

After the first line, each entry is indented ½ inch or 5 spaces from the left margin. This is called a hanging indent. Each entry presents information in a specific order: the author's name, the title, the publication information.

In APA Style, you can cite a ChatGPT response as a personal communication, since the answers it gave you are not retrievable for other users. Cite it like this in the text: (ChatGPT, personal communication, February 11, 2023).

While the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Ed. does not specify font size or style the IRSC librarians recommend Times New Roman size 12 font.

Can you paraphrase in Chicago style? ›

When you quote or paraphrase, include the author's name and the page number where the quote/paraphrase appears in the original text. This information is placed in parentheses.

Footnote or endnote numbers in the text should follow punctuation, and preferably be placed at the end of a sentence.

We recommend use of the 17th edition as this is the most current. The Chicago Manual of Style is often used by style is often used by academics and students writing in humanities disciplines including art, music and history. It provides guidelines for two styles of referencing: Note and bibliography. Author-date.

Chicago and Turabian are basically the same thing, but Chicago is used by academics and researchers, while Turabian is used by students for research papers that will not be published.

Most of the differences between Chicago (Turabian) and APA Styles involve in-text citations. Both styles include the last name of the author and a page number in parentheses for the in-text citation. APA Style also includes the year of publication of the source, but Chicago (Turabian) Style does not.

Authors: Full name(s) of authors (Firstname Middlename Lastname). Title: and subtitle of article with all major words capitalized (article name surrounded by quotation marks). Newspaper Title: with all major words capitalized (in italicized characters). Publication date: (Month, Day and Year).

Here is the basic format for a reference list entry of a master's thesis in Chicago style 17th edition: Author(s) of the thesis. "Title of the thesis." Degree, University, Year of publication.

In a Chicago footnote citation, when the author of a source is unknown (as is often the case with websites), start the citation with the title in a full note. In short notes and bibliography entries, list the organization that published it as the author.