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A Chicago style bibliography lists the sources cited in your text. Each bibliography entry begins with the author’s name and the title of the source, followed by relevant publication details. The bibliography is alphabetized by authors’ last names.
The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) covers a variety of topics from manuscript preparation and publication to grammar, usage, and documentation, and as such, it has been lovingly dubbed the “editor's bible.”
Since The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) is primarily intended as a style guide for published works rather than class papers, these guidelines will be supplemented with information from, Kate L. Turabian’s Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (8th ed.), which is largely based on CMOS with some slight alterations.
The Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition) contains guidelines for two styles of citation: notes and bibliography and author-date. Notes and bibliography is the most common type of Chicago style citation, and the main focus of this article.
Sample bibliography entries follow the notes. For more details and many more examples, see chapters 13 and 14 of The Chicago Manual of Style. For examples of the same citations using the author-date system, follow the Author-Date link above.
In Chicago author-date style, your text must include a reference list. It appears at the end of your paper and gives full details of every source you cited. In notes and bibliography style, you use Chicago style footnotes to cite sources; a bibliography is optional but recommended.
Chicago-style source citations come in two varieties: (1) notes and bibliography and (2) author-date. If you already know which system to use, follow one of the links above to see sample citations for a variety of common sources.
This sample annotated bibliography shows you the structure you should use to write a Chicago style annotated bibliography and gives examples of evaluative and summary annotations. It can be used as a template to set up your assignment.
Key formatting aspects of formatting a bibliography in the Chicago style include: The bibliography is a list of all the sources you have used to research your paper. It appears on a separate page at the end of the essay and is titled "Bibliography" (centred, no quotation marks, no underline).
Entries in a bibliography should be arranged alphabetically by the initial component of the entry, which is commonly an author's last name. Entries in a bibliography should use a hanging indent. In other words, for entries that are longer than one line, all lines beyond the first need to be indented, as shown here: Sample Bibliography.