Citing Book Reviews
Chicago-style source citations are designed to be both concise and informative. Ideally, readers should be able to tell what a citation refers to despite its abbreviated nature.
Chicago Style Workout 74: Scholarly Abbreviations
If you’ve ever written or edited an article or book on a scholarly subject, you probably know your e.g. from your i.e. and ibid. But especially if you spend time with older sources, you’re likely to encounter some abbreviations that haven’t entered the vernacular.
Taming Messy URLs
From the perspective of writers and editors, URLs do their best work when they’re behind the scenes or just off the page, as in a browser’s address bar. In that role—as the internet address for a specific page or document—it doesn’t matter all that much what a URL looks like so long as it works.
Epigraphs in Fiction
An epigraph is a brief quotation placed at the beginning of a book or at the head of a chapter, article, story, or other work. Most epigraphs are ornamental, helping to set the tone or mood of a work but going unmentioned in the text.
Chicago Style Workout 50: Source Citations, Part 2
Chicago style supports two systems of source citation. Notes and bibliography, covered in a previous workout, consists of numbered footnotes or endnotes and, usually, a bibliography. Author-date, the subject of this workout, relies on parenthetical references in the text and a corresponding reference list.
Chicago Style Workout 49: Source Citations, Part 1
To some of our readers, “Chicago style” is synonymous with a conventional system of numbered notes supported by a bibliography. This system is introduced in the first half of chapter 13 and supported by the examples in chapter 14. (The author-date system will be covered in the next quiz.)
Understanding Chicago-Style Notes and Bibliography Entries
Chicago’s main system for citing sources consists of numbered footnotes or endnotes and, usually, a corresponding list of sources in a bibliography.
Chicago-Style Epigraphs and Sources (CMOS 1.37)
An epigraph is a short quotation at the beginning of a book or chapter or article that sets the tone for what’s to come. It’s often from a famous source, but it doesn’t have to be. The source of an epigraph is usually given on a line
Sections 14.73–74 in the Spotlight
Although it seems simple enough to include the author’s name as the first element of a citation, CMOS users have questions about how to do it. Here are a few pointers from paragraphs 14.73–74 of the Manual.
Help! I Have to Use Chicago Style!
What is “style,” and what does it have to do with Chicago? And which book or website is the official source for someone required to use Chicago style in their work?
