Chicago Author & Date | Writing Center

The University of Chicago publishes a citation style used pri-

marily in Humanities and Social Sciences disciplines for docu-

menting sources in a text.

Why do we cite?

 To give credit to others for their ideas, words, and

images

 To lend credibility to our arguments

 To connect our ideas to other writers’ ideas in our field

 To provide readers with sources that they can use for

their own projects

When do we cite?

 When we quote other writers’ words

 When we paraphrase (i.e., using your own words to

explain someone else’s ideas)

 When we use another writers’ tables, graphs, or

images

What do I do if the information I need is not contained

in this packet?

 Check

The Chicago Manual of Style

, 16

Edition

 Work with a Writing Center consultant

 Visit the

Purdue OWL

Where in the paper do I put my citations?

 You need to cite your sources both inside of your text

and in a References page located at the end of your

paper.

Chicago

Author &

Date

OTHER HELPFUL

HANDOUTS

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USING SOURCES

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QUOTING/

PARAPHRASING/

SUMMARIZING

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WRITING

LITERATURE

REVIEWS

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WRITING

ABSTRACTS

VIDEOS ON OUR

WEBSITE

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WRITING WITH

SOURCES

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PREVENTING

PLAGIARISM

In-text Citation

One Author (author’s name is not given in the sentence)

When you quote or paraphrase, include the author’s name and the page number where the

quote/paraphrase appears in the original text. This information is placed in parentheses.

 One of the paradoxes of democracy is that “individual freedom is possible when there

is discipline regulated by the society” (Doe 2011, 23).

 One of the paradoxes of democracy is that each person can only be free if the larger

culture sets up rules to protect that liberty (Doe 2011, 23).

One Author (author’s name given in the sentence)

If you write the author’s name before the quotation or paraphrase, include the date

immediately after the author’s name. Include the page number in parentheses at the end of

the quotation or paraphrase.

 According to John Doe (2011), one of the paradoxes of democracy is that “individual

freedom is possible when there is discipline regulated by the society” (23).

Two or Three Authors

 (Doe, Smith, and Williams 2008, 23)

Four or More Authors

 (Doe et al. 2010, 44)

Multiple Texts by the Same Author

If you are citing more than one work by the same author published within the same year, add

suffixes after the year (a,b,c):

 (Doe 1982a, 45)

No Author Listed

Give the title of the work, shortened or in full. Note that using a source with “no author” can

raise a credibility issue.

 (“Green Day” 2000, 12)

Electronic and Other Non-print Sources without Page Numbers

Try to give the section or paragraph number. And when you provide a paragraph or section

number, you should include a comma after the author’s name or abbreviated title of the work.

 (“Myth of Poverty” 2011, pt. 3)

Quoting from Another Source

 John Johnson wrote that individual freedom “should not take precedence over social

welfare” (quoted in Doe 2011, 4).

References

Book, One Author

Author’s last name, first name. Year.

Title of Book.

Place of Publication: Publisher.

Denny, Harry C. 2010.

Facing the Center: Toward an Identity Politics of One-to-One

Mentoring

. Logan, UT: Utah State UP.

Book Chapter, One Author with Editor

Pemberton, Michael A. 2003. “The Writing Lab Newsletter as History: Tracing the Growth of a

Scholarly Community.” In

The Center Will Hold: Critical Perspectives on Writing Center

Scholarship

, edited by Michael A. Pemberton and Joyce Kinkead, 21-40. Logan, UT:

Utah State UP.

Journal Article, One Author

Author’s last name, first name. Year. “Title of Article.”

Title of Journal

Volume Number

(Issue Number): Inclusive pages.

Barthelme, Frederick. 1981. “Architecture.”

Kansas Quarterly

13 (3-4):77-80.

Journal Article from Database

Author’s last name, first name. Year. “Title of Article.”

Title of Journal

Volume Number:

Inclusive pages. Name of Electronic Database.

Tolson, Nancy. 1998. “Making Books Available: The Role of Early Libraries, Librarians, and

Booksellers in the Promotion of African American Children’s Literature.”

African

American Review

32:9-16. JSTOR.

Article in Web Magazine

Author’s last name, first name. Year. “Title of Article.”

Title of Web Magazine

, Month and Date

Published. URL.

Yeatman, William. 2009. “Global Warming 101: Solutions.”

GlobalWarming.org,

February 4.

Accessed May 3, 2010. http://www.globalwarming.org/2009/02/04/global-warming-101

-solutions.html.

Article on Website with No Author Listed

“New Child Vaccine Gets Funding Boost.” 2001. Last modified March 21. from http://

news.ninemsn.com.au/health/story_13178.asp.html.

ELECTRONIC

References Page

REFERENCES

Barthelme, Frederick. 1981. “Architecture.” Kansas Quarterly 13 (3-4):77-80.

Denny, Harry C. 2010. Facing the Center: Toward an Identity Politics of One-to-One

Mentoring

. Logan, UT: Utah State UP.

“New Child Vaccine Gets Funding Boost.” 2001. Last modified March 21. from http://

news.ninemsn.com.au/health/story_13178.asp.html.

Pemberton, Michael A. 2003. “The Writing Lab Newsletter as History: Tracing the Growth of a

Scholarly Community.” In The Center Will Hold: Critical Perspectives on Writing

Center Scholarship, edited by Michael A. Pemberton and Joyce Kinkead, 21-40. Logan,

UT: Utah State UP.

Tolson, Nancy. 1998. “Making Books Available: The Role of Early Libraries, Librarians, and

Booksellers in the Promotion of African American Children’s Literature.” African

American Review

32:9-16. JSTOR.

Yeatman, William. 2009. “Global Warming 101: Solutions.”

GlobalWarming.org,

February 4.

Accessed May 3, 2010. http://www.globalwarming.org/2009/02/04/global-warming-101

-solutions.html.