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Sample Chicago Style Citations

Sample Journal Citations:
N: 
1. Frank P. Whitney, "The Six-Year High School in Cleveland," School Review 37, no.4 (April 1929): 268, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1078814.

B: Whitney, Frank P. "The Six-Year High School in Cleveland." School Review 37, no. 4 (April 1929): 267-271. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1078814.

 

Sample Book Citation:
N: 1. Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (London: Profile Books, 2014), 79-80.

B: Gawande, Atul. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. London: Profile Books, 2014.

 

Sample eBook Citation:
N: 1. Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (New York: Metropolitan, 2014), chap. 3, https://archive.org/details/beingmortalmedic0000gawa.

B: Gawande, Atul. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. New York: Metropolitan, 2014. https://archive.org/details/beingmortalmedic0000gawa

 

Sample Newspaper Article (with author)
N: 23. Neil Irwin, "Low Rates May Stay for Years After the Fed Reverses Course," New York Times, December 15, 2015, sec. A

B: Irwin, Neil. "Low Rates May Stay for Years After the Fed Reverses Course." New York Times, December 15, 2015, sec. A.

 

Sample Newspaper Citation (from a database)
N: 23. "Safe in Sioux City at Last: Union Pacific Succeeds in Securing Trackage from the St. Paul Road, Omaha Daily Herald, May 16, 1889, America's Historical Newspapers.

B: "Safe in Sioux City at Last: Union Pacific Succeeds in Securing Trackage from the St. Paul Road." Omaha Daily Herald, May 16, 1889. America's Historical Newspapers.
 

Unsigned Newspaper Article
N: 24. "Next President Better Be a Climate Change Believer," Chicago Sun-Times, June 24, 2016, https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/editorial-next-president-better-be-a-climate-change-believer/.

B. Chicago Sun-Times. "Next President Better Be a Climate Change Believer." June 24, 2016. https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/editorial-next-president-better-be-a-climate-change-believer/.

 

Shortened form (for subsequent references to the same resource in your footnotes):
1. Samuel A. Morley, Poverty and Inequality in Latin America: The Impact of Adjustment and Recovery (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1995), 24-25.
2. Regina M. Schwartz, "Nationals and Nationalism: Adultery in the House of David," Critical Inquiry 19, no. 1 (1992): 131-32.
3. Ernest Kaiser, "The Literature of Harlem," In Harlem: A Community in Transition, ed. J.H. Clarke (New York: Citadel Press, 1964). 
4. Morley, Poverty and Inequality, 43
5. Schwartz, "Nationals and Nationalism," 138.
6. Kaiser, "Literature of Harlem," 189-90.