Chicago Style uses two different systems for citing. This guide focuses on Notes and the bibliography system, commonly used in the humanities. For more information on the Author-Date system used in the Chicago Manual of Style Format and Citations. Chicago style is a set of formatting and citation guidelines that tell you what an academic article should look like, similar to other styles like APA or MLA. Based on the Chicago Manual of Style, or CMOS, Chicago Style is the preferred format for citing sources related to history and history. For a book with two authors, note that only the first name listed is reversed in the bibliographic entry. Full Chicago-style citation in footnote: 3. Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945 New York: Knopf, 2007, 52. Abbreviated citation in footnote footnote: 3. Ward and Burns, War , 52. Bibliographic entry: The Chicago Manual of Style was originally created by Kate L. Turabian at the University of Chicago. It is most commonly used by writers in the fields of history, literature, and the arts. Chicago Style offers two different citation methods that can be used: Author-Date Style. This citation method uses specific parentheses. This guide provides some basic examples of Chicago citation style. It is based on the published edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. Copies of the complete manual are available at the reference desks and reference collections of the Vanier and Webster libraries, as well as online. The manual call number is U69, 22. Manastyrsky, Ukrainian Easter, F12. To cite an article viewed online, provide the URL or, if no suitable URL is available, the name of the database, Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed. p. 839. In the example above, the article came from one of the library's databases. Page numbers may be omitted. In the Chicago style of notes and bibliography, you include a bibliography entry for each source and cite them in the text using footnotes. A bibliographic entry for a journal article lists the title of the article in markups and the name of the journal in italics, both in title case. List authors fully used “et al. " or more.