Core Elements of Chicago Style Footnote Citations
These elements are similar to bibliographic entries but there are a couple of differences such as commas being used over periods. Publication information is put in parentheses while in bibliographic entries they are not. Keep this in mind when using footnotes.
Each element is in sequential order.
Chicago Style Footnotes Examples
Book with One Author Style and Example:1 Footnote In Main Body of Text
- Format: 1. First Name Last Name, Title of Book in Italics, (Place of Publication: Publisher, Publication Date), Pages Consulted.
- Example: 1. Stuart Shea, Wrigley Field: The Long Life and Contentious Times of the Friendly Confines (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014), 51-52.
Book with Two Authors Style and Example:2 Footnote In the Main Body of Text
- Format: 2. First Name Last Name and First Name Last Name, Title of Book in Italics, (Place of Publication: Publisher, Publication Date), Pages Consulted.
- Example: 2. Brian Grazer and Charles Fishman, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015), 188.
Database Article and Example:3 Footnote In the Main Body of the Text
- Format: 3. First Name Last Name, "Article Title," Journal Title in Italics Volume Number, Issue Number (Publication Date): Page Range Consulted, Access Date, Stable URL or DOI.
- Example: 3. Benajmin Bagley, "Loving Someone in Particular," Ethics 125, no. 2 (January 2015): 484-85, accessed December 4, 2017, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1978286.
Website Article and Example:4 Footnote in the Main Body of the Text
- Format: 4. First name Last name, “Title of Web Page,” Publishing Organization or Name of Website, publication date and/or access date if available, URL.
- Example: 4. Kathie Nunley, "The Caffeine Craze of Youth," Layered Curriculum, accessed July 28, 2008. http://help4teachers.com/caffeine.htm.
