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The MacDuffie Library: Chicago Style Citation 17th Edition

Chicago Style Citation 17th Edition

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

Chicago Citation 17th edition
 

Below you will find resources to assist you with properly citing sources using Chicago format.

Note: All Chicago citations should be created using the 17th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style.
 

 

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Sample CHICAGO citations by Source Type

SAMPLE CITATIONS

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ARTICLE IN A PRINTED REFERENCE BOOK - ENCYCLOPEDIA/DICTIONARY
note: use the format for  a chapter in a book for the purposes of this project

Smith, Charles. "Lydia Maria Francis Child." In Dictionary of American Biography. 36-42 . New
     York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936.

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ARTICLE IN A REFERENCE BOOK IN A DATABASE

Smith, Charles. "Lydia Maria Francis Child." In Dictionary of American Biography. 36-42 . New
     York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Gale In Context: Biography (accessed
     November 12, 2020). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/BT2310016124/BIC?
     u=mlin_w_macduff&sid=BIC&xid=089f63e5.

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ARTICLE ON A WEBSITE

Poetry Foundation. "Lydia Maria Child." Poets. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
     poets/lydia-maria-child.

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PRIMARY SOURCE ON THE WEB - A LETTER

Child, Lydia Maria. Letter to Rev. R. C. Waterston, August 27, 1844. Letter. From New York Historical
     Society, The American Historical Manuscript Collection. http://blog.nyhistory.org/ahmc-of-the-month
     -nineteenth-century-women-activists/ (accessed Nov. 12, 2020).

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PRIMARY SOURCE ON THE WEB - A NEWSPAPER ARICLE 

Garrison, William Lloyd. "Refuge of Oppression: the Editor's Abolitionism." The Liberator, Friday,
     January 10, 1845, p.1. http://theliberatorfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/The-Liberator-1845-
     01-10-Page-1.png (accessed Nov. 12, 2020).

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PRIMARY SOURCE ON THE WEB - A BOOK 

Child, Lydia Maria. An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans. Ticknor,
     1833. http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/childhp.html (accessed Nov. 12, 2020).