Term Paper 2

University of Chicago Style

University of Chicago style is the formatting for citations that is used by many social sciences, including history. The following samples, from the University of Chicago Manual of Style website, provide examples of citation formats for both your works cited page and the footnotes within the body of your paper. Using footnotes in University of Chicago style is required for your term paper.

For each source example below, the “Bibliography Citation” shows how the citation should look in your works cited page. The “Footnote Citation” examples below show two entries: the first is for your initial citation of the source and the second is for all repeated citations of that same source. To use footnotes in Word versions after 2007, click on the “References” tab and then click on “Insert Footnote.” To use footnotes in Word 2003 and earlier, click on the “Insert” tab and then click on “Footnote.” If you are using another word processor like Pages, Google Docs, OpenOffice, etc., there are plenty of YouTube videos and websites to explain how to add footnotes.

Book

· Bibliography citation:

Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. New York: Penguin, 2006.

· Footnote Citation:

1. Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (New York: Penguin, 2006), 99–100.

2. Pollan, Omnivore’s Dilemma, 83.

Book with two or more authors

· Bibliography citation:

Ward, Geoffrey C., and Ken Burns. The War: An Intimate History, 1941–1945. New York: Knopf, 2007.

· Footnote Citation:

1. Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, The War: An Intimate History, 1941–1945 (New York: Knopf, 2007), 52.

2. Ward and Burns, War, 59–61.

Editor, translator, or compiler instead of author

· Bibliography citation:

Lattimore, Richmond, trans. The Iliad of Homer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951.

· Footnote Citation:

1. Richmond Lattimore, trans., The Iliad of Homer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951), 91–92.

2. Lattimore, Iliad, 24.

Chapter or other part of a book

· Bibliography citation:

Kelly, John D. “Seeing Red: Mao Fetishism, Pax Americana, and the Moral Economy of War.” In Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency, edited by John D. Kelly, Beatrice Jauregui, Sean T. Mitchell, and Jeremy Walton, 67–83. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.

· Footnote Citation:

1. John D. Kelly, “Seeing Red: Mao Fetishism, Pax Americana, and the Moral Economy of War,” in Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency, ed. John D. Kelly et al. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010), 77.

2. Kelly, “Seeing Red,” 81–82.

Book published electronically

If a book is available in more than one format, cite the version you consulted. For books consulted online, list a URL. If no fixed page numbers are available, you can include a section title or a chapter or other number. Footnote citation follows rules for books.

· Bibliography citation:

Kurland, Philip B., and Ralph Lerner, eds. The Founders’ Constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Accessed February 28, 2010. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/.

Article in a print journal

In a note, list the specific page numbers consulted, if any. In the bibliography, list the page range for the whole article.

· Bibliography citation:

Weinstein, Joshua I. “The Market in Plato’s Republic.” Classical Philology 104 (2009): 439–58.

· Footnote Citation:

1. Joshua I. Weinstein, “The Market in Plato’s Republic,” Classical Philology 104 (2009): 440.

2. Weinstein, “Plato’s Republic,” 452–53.

Article in an online journal

· Bibliography citation:

Kossinets, Gueorgi, and Duncan J. Watts. “Origins of Homophily in an Evolving Social Network.” American Journal of Sociology 115 (2009): 405–50. Accessed February 28, 2010, www.americanjournalofsociology.org/2009/115.

· Footnote Citation:

1. Gueorgi Kossinets and Duncan J. Watts, “Origins of Homophily in an Evolving Social Network,” American Journal of Sociology 115 (2009): 411, accessed February 28, 2010, www.americanjournalofsociology.org/2009/115.

2. Kossinets and Watts, “Origins of Homophily,” 439.

Websites

A citation to website content can often be limited to a mention in the text or in a note (“As of July 19, 2008, the McDonald’s Corporation listed on its website . . .”). If a more formal citation is desired, it may be styled as in the examples below. Because such content is subject to change, include an access date or, if available, a date that the site was last modified.

· Bibliography citation:

McDonald’s Corporation. “McDonald’s Happy Meal Toy Safety Facts.” Accessed July 19, 2008. http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/about/factsheets.html.

· Footnote Citation:

1. “McDonald’s Happy Meal Toy Safety Facts,” McDonald’s Corporation, accessed July 19, 2008, http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/about/factsheets.html.

2. “Toy Safety Facts.”