Essay

Chicago Documentation

Style: Footnotes and

Bibliography

Footnote

How to make a footnote

• Put in components

• First line indentation

Author’s name, Title (City of publication:

Publisher, Year of publication), page number(s).

Footnote

First footnote

• Full citation

Second footnote is shortened

• Author’s last name, page #.

Remaining footnotes

• Ibid., page #.

Bibliography

How to make a bibliography

• Put on new blank page

• List in alphabetical order

• Hanging indentation

Author’s last name, first name. Title. City of

publication: Publisher, Year of

publication.

Example

Bibliography

Heiss, Jerold. The Case of the Black Family: A

Sociological Inquiry. New York: Columbia

University Press, 1975.

Footnote 1 Jerold Heiss, The Case of the Black Family: A

Sociological Inquiry (New York: Columbia University

Press, 1975), 205. 2 Heiss, 310. 3 Ibid., 350.

Citing a book with a different edition

Bibliography

Author’s last name, first name. Title. # ed. City of

publication: Publisher, Year of publication.

Footnote

Author’s name, Title, # ed.(City of publication:

Publisher, Year of publication), page number(s).

Example

Bibliography

Tosh, John. Historians on History, 2nd ed. New

York: Routledge, 2009.

Footnote 1 John Tosh, Historians on History, 2nd ed.

(New York: Routledge, 2009), 138. 2 Tosh, 200. 3 Ibid., 206.

Bibliography

Author’s last name, first name. Title. # ed. City of

publication: Publisher, Year of publication. Link for

e-book.

Footnote

Author’s name, Title, # ed.(City of publication:

Publisher, Year of publication), page number(s), link for e-

book.

Citing an E-book

Example

Bibliography

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. New York:

Harper & Brothers, 1851.

http://mel.hofstra.edu/moby-dick-the-whale-

proofs.html.

Footnote 1 Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (New

York: Harper & Brothers, 1851), 627,

http://mel.hofstra.edu/moby-dick-the-whale-proofs.html. 2 Melville, 500. 3 Ibid., 650.

Bibliography

Author Surname, First Name or Initial. Book Title: Subtitle. Edition.

Original Place of Publication: Original Publisher, Original

Year. Reprint, Place of Publication: Reprint Publisher, Reprint

Year.

Footnote

Author First Name/Initial Surname, Book Title: Subtitle,

edition (Original Place of Publication: Original Publisher, Original

Year; Reprint Place of Publication: Reprint Publisher, Reprint Year),

page #. Citations refer to the Reprint Publisher edition.

Citing a book that is reprinted

Example Bibliography

Curzon, George. Russia in Central Asia in 1889 and the

Anglo-Russian Question. London: Longmans,

Green & Co., 1889. Reprint, New York: Barnes and

Noble, 1967.

Footnote 1 George Curzon, Russia in Central Asia in 1889

and the Anglo-Russian Question (London: Longmans,

Green & Co., 1889; New York: Barnes and Noble, 1967),

230. Citations refer to the Barnes and Noble edition. 2 Curzon, 100. 3 Ibid., 150.