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Chicago Style Guide

The Chicago style is a set of guidelines for writing research papers that meet a certain set of scholarly standards. For a detailed description of these standards, see The Chicago manual of style (15th ed.) available at the Reference Desk and on the shelves at REF Z253 .U69 2003. Below is a list of works cited by format, cited according to the Chicago style.

Book, one author

  • Thomas, Lynn M. Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

    • Book, multiple authors

  • Frey, Charles H. and John W. Griffith. The Literary of Childhood: An Appraisal of Children's Classics in the Western Tradition. New York: Orangewood Press, 1987.

    • Edited Book

  • Hevly, Bruce and John M. Findlay, eds. The Atomic West. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998.

    • Chapter from a Book

  • Jonas, Raymond A. "Sacred Tourism and Secular Pilgrimmage: Montmartre and the Basilica of Sacré-Coeur." In Montmartre and the Making of Mass Culture, edited by Gabriel P. Weisberg, 94-119. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001.

    • Article in a Journal

  • Camp, Stephanie M. H. "The Pleasures of Resistance: Enslaved Women and Body Politics in the Planatation South. 1830-1861." Journal of Southern History 68 no. 3 (2002): 533-72.

    • Article in a Newspaper

  • Thomas, Jo. "Digitized Artifacts Are Making Knowledge Available to All, on Line." New York Times, Npv. 29, 1998, final edition, sec. 1.

    • Government Document

  • U.S. Congress. Senate. Committe on Foreign Relations. Famine in Africa: Hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations. 99th Cong., 1st sess., January 17, 1985.

    • Dissertation

  • Harmon, Alexandra. "A Different kind of indians: Negotiating the Meanings of 'Indian' and 'Tribe' in the Puget Sound Region, 1820s-1970s." PhD diss., University of Washington, 1995.

    • Web Site

  • University of Washington Libraries. "Bainbridge Island." Camp Harmony Exhibit. http: //www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/Exhibit/bainbridge.html (accessed Dec. 31 2003).

    • For more information...

  • UW-Madison's Handbook for Chicago Style
  • ONLINE's Citation Styles