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Documenting Your Research Using Chicago StyleDocumentary-Note Style A Book With One Author [17.26] Basic format: Author’s Last name, First name. Title of the book. Place of publication: Publisher, Publication year. Example: Tan, Amy. The Bonesetter’s Daughter. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Press, 2001.
A Book With More than One Author [17.27] Basic format: Author’s Last name, First name and Author’s First name Last name. Title of the book. Place of publication: Publisher, Publication year. Example: Craton, Michael, and Gail Saunders. Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992.
An Article in a Reference Book [17.84] Reference works, such as dictionaries and encyclopedias, are usually not included in the bibliography; they are only cited in notes. Using subject encyclopedias, include publication information. (Online versions of encyclopedias are considered databases.) When a citing a multivolume work as a whole, the total number of volumes is given after the title of the work. Basic format: Editor, Last name, First name. Title of the encyclopedia. Place of publication: Publisher, Publication year. Example: Lehman, Jeffrey, ed. Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. 3 vols. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, 2000.
E-Book [17.143] Basic format: Author’s Last name, First name. Title of the Book. Place of publication: Publisher, Date of publication. Name of the subscription service’s URL. Example: Cather, Willa. Street in Packingtown. Charlottesville, VA:University of Virginia Library, 1996. http://emedia.netlibrary.com.
A Scholarly Journal Article [17.156] Basic format: Author’s Last name, First name. "Title of Article." Journal Title Volume Number, Issue number (Publication Year):Page numbers. Example: Cooledge, Dean. "A Hollywood Staple: The War Film." Literature Film Quarterly 33, no. 4 (2005):322-324.
A Magazine Article [17.148] Basic format: Author’s Last name, First name. "Title of Article." Journal Title, Date of Publication, Page numbers. Example: Reichl, Ruth. "Balancing Act." Gourmet, January 2006, 20-20.
An Online Journal Article [17.359] Basic format: Author Last name, First name. "Title of Article." Journal Title Volume number, Issue number (Date of Publication): page numbers. Name of database (Retrieved Date). Example: Albitz, Becky. "Information Policy: Dude, Where are my Civil Rights?" Journal of Academic Librarianship 31, 3 (May 2005): 284-286. http://search.ebscohost.com (accessed January 23, 2006).
Chicago Style Information Begin each entry flush with the left margin. If an entry requires more than one line, indent the subsequent lines by 5 spaces (one tab space on the computer). Double-space the entire list. This is done within each entry as well as between each entry. For detailed information on documenting your research using The Chicago Manual of Style, the book is available in the reference area of the Cerritos College Library (REF Z253 .U69 2003). Numbers in brackets [ ] refer to the beginning of a section of the Chicago Manual of Style which describes the specific citation style. Consult these sections for more information. The Chicago Manual of Style is also available online: Explore The Chicago Manual of Style Quick Guide and Question & Answers pages. http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq/cmosfaq.html
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