View examples for how to format citations at Chicago's website or use the Houff Library's Chicago 18th edition citation handout. This handout provides examples for formatting Works Cited information and in-text citations.
This handout features resources formatted according to the author-date style Chicago citation system. If your instructor requires the notes and bibliography style Chicago citation system, please ask the librarians for assistance.
You are only responsible for including information that is readily available to you through the resource itself—for example, if a book does not supply an edition, you do not need to include that information in your citation. For guidance on resource types not seen here, please see the Chicago manual available in the library.
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Print Source |
Citation for References page |
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Book with 1 author
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Last Name, First Name. Title of Book: Subtitle if Any. Edition [excluding first ed.]. Publisher Name, Year of Publication.
Ferrer, Ada. Cuba: An American History. 3rd ed. Scribner, 2021. |
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Book with multiple authors
Sources only need et al. after 6 contributors |
Last Name, First Name, and First Name Last Name. Title of Book: Subtitle if Any. Edition [excluding first ed.]. Publisher Name, Year of Publication.
Kendi, Ibram X., and Keisha Blain. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019. One World, 2021. |
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Book with editor(s) only
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Last Name, First Name, editor(s). Title of Book: Subtitle if Any. Edition [excluding first ed.]. Publisher Name, Year of Publication.
Stein, Marc, ed. The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History. New York University Press, 2019.
Sterling, Terry Greene, and Jude Joffe-Block, eds. Driving While Brown: Sheriff Joe Arpaio Versus the Latino Resistance. University of California Press, 2021. |
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Book with an author and editor/translator
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Last Name, First Name. Title of Book: Subtitle if Any. Edition [excluding first ed.]. Translated/Edited by First Name Last Name. Publisher Name, Year of Publication.
García Márquez, Gabriel. Love in the Time of Cholera. Translated by Edith Grossman. Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. |
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Book with an organization as author
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Title of Organization. Title of Book: Subtitle if Any. Edition [excluding first ed.]. Publisher Name, Year of Publication.
University of Chicago Press. The Chicago Manual of Style. 18th ed. University of Chicago Press, 2024. |
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Chapter of an edited book |
Last Name, First Name. “Title of Chapter.” In Title of Book: Subtitle if Any, edited by Editor First Name Last Name. Publisher Name, Year of Publication.
Richard, Alison. “Human Footprints.” In The Sloth Lemur’s Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present, edited by Tim Hitchcock. University of Chicago Press, 2022. |
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Chapter of an individual volume |
Last Name, First Name. “Title of Chapter.” In Title of Volume, vol. # of Title of Series, edited by First Name Last Name. Publisher Name, Year of Publication.
Chen, Jian. “China and the Cold War after Mao.” In Endings, vol. 3 of The Cambridge History of the Cold War, edited by Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad. Cambridge University Press, 2010. |
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Short stories, essays, or articles from a book or anthology |
Last Name, First Name. “Title of Short Story, Poem, or Essay.” In Title of Book: Subtitle if Any, edited by Editor First Name Last Name. Publisher Name, Year of Publication.
Frost, Robert. “Birches.” In The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry, edited by Rita Dove. Penguin Books, 2013. |
This handout features resources formatted according to the author-date style Chicago citation system. If your instructor requires the notes and bibliography style Chicago citation system, please ask the librarians for assistance.
You are only responsible for including information that is readily available to you through the resource itself—for example, if a book does not supply an edition, you do not need to include that information in your citation. For guidance on resource types not seen here, please see the Chicago manual available in the library.
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Citation for References page |
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Article from an online database
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Last Name, First Name. “Title of Article.” Title of Journal vol. #, issue # (Publication Year): Page Numbers. DOI or Permalink if Given.
Ensminger, John J. “From Hunters to Hell Hounds: The Dogs of Columbus and Transformations of the Human-Canine Relationship in the Early Spanish Caribbean.” Colonial Latin American Review 31, no. 3 (2022): 354–80. doi:10.1080/10609164.2022.2104035. |
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Chapter for an ebook contained in a database |
Last Name, First Name. “Title of Chapter.” In Title of Book: Subtitle if Any, edited by Editor First Name Last Name. Publisher Name, Year of Publication. DOI or Permalink if Given.
Sexton, Courtney. “What is Written on a Dog’s Face?” In Dog Human Relationships: Behavior, Physiology, and Wellbeing, edited by Betty McGuire. MDPI, 2024. doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-7258-1694-1. |
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Website with author |
Last Name, First Name. “Title of Web Page.” Name of Website. Publication or Revision Date if Available, Access Date if Not. URL.
Owen, Malcolm. “M4 Pro 14-Inch MacBook Pro vs. M1 Pro 14-Inch MacBook Pro Compared.” Apple Insider. October 30, 2024. https://appleinsider.com/inside/14-inch-macbook-pro/vs/m4-pro-14-inch-macbook-pro-vs-m1-pro-14-inch-macbook-pro-compared-big-performance-gains-in-three-years. |
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Website with corporate author
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Corporate Name. “Title of Web Page.” Publication or Revision Date if Available, Access Date if Not. URL.
Microsoft Corporation. “Microsoft Privacy Statement.” Updated February 2023. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy/privacystatement. |
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Online Video from a sharing site like YouTube
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Last Name, First Name. “Title of Video.” Name of Streaming Site, uploaded by First Name Last Name/Name of Organization, Day/Month/Year of Publication. Running Time. URL.
Lyiscott, Jamilla. “3 Ways to Speak English.” TEDTalk, New York, NY, February 2014. 4 min., 16 sec. https://www.ted.com/talks/jamila_lyiscott_3_ways_to_speak_english?subtitle=en.
If the author’s name is the same as the uploader, only cite the author once.
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AI-generated content |
Publisher or Developer. Response to “_______.” Name of AI Tool, Access Date. URL if Given.
OpenAI. Response to “Give me a recipe for chocolate chip cookies.” ChatGPT, October 10, 2024. |
An in-text citation gives credit to the source of the information used in a paper or other assignment and directs the reader to the References page at the end. The in-text citation generally is placed at the end of a sentence, as shown in the examples below.
In-text citations may refer to general information paraphrased from the source (no direct quotation) or to a specific quotation from the source (direct quote from source in quotation marks). Always provide in-text citations when using information from sources.
Below are examples of common formats. For more information consult https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html or the Chicago Manual of Style, 18th edition (2024).
Abbreviations such as ed. or trans. are omitted from text citations
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In-Text Citation Examples |
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Source with one author |
(Yu 2022, 1824) |
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Source with two authors |
(Sterling and Joffe-Block 2021, 110) |
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Source with six+ authors |
(Aubrecht et al. 2020, 44) |
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Source with organization as an author |
(WHO 2004, 23) |
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Multiple citations needed |
(Smith 2012, 37; Johnson 2015, 210) |
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Citing source with no page number |
(Centinel 1981) |
