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The Chicago Manual of Style is deservedly popular as it is widely used by journals, publishers (both fiction and non-fiction), advertisers, copywriters, etc. It’s incredibly versatile and can accommodate a wide range of sources. This makes it particularly suitable for researchers in the arts and humanities, who often refer to works beyond the traditional journal article, book, or book chapter. The Chicago style bibliography is fairly easy to create, if you follow some standard guidelines.
See also: Chicago In-Text Citations: Citing Sources as Per the Chicago Manual of Style
Basic format of a Chicago style bibliography
Here’s what you need to follow at an overall level when creating your bibliography:
- 1-inch margins on all 4 sides
- Single-spaced entries
- One blank line between entries
- Arrange entries in lphabetical order, according to the first author’s surname
- The heading “Bibliography” appears at the top of a new page, after any endnotes.
- Leave two blank lines between the heading and the first entry.
- For entries longer than one line: use a 0.5-inch hanging indent for the 2nd and subsequent lines.
- Invert the first author’s name (“Watanabe, Mary” not “Mary Watanabe”) and list all the other author(s) as usual (“Gonsalez, Saraswati and Lucy Thinkamura”)
- Capitalize significant words in the titles of longer works like books, and italicize them.
- Enclose titles of shorter works (e.g., poems, journal articles) in quotation marks
- If there are 10 or more authors, list the first 7 and the use “et al.”
- In case you’re referring to multiple sources by the same author(s) in the same order, use a 3-em dash for the 2nd and subsequent sources.
Examples of different entries in a Chicago style bibliography
Journal article
Park, Sujeong, and Agatha Christie. “Making Sense of Nightmares About Sex Kittens” Journal of Walking Toys 1, no. 3 (August 2000): 867–876. https://doi.org/10.1177/152700250000543304.
Book
Khristakatapoulos, Emily. My Graves: A Practical Cookbook for Pretty Little Geese. 3rd ed. Saskatchewan City: Fling Out Your Curtains Press, 2011.
Book Chapter
Poppins, Mary, and Christopher Pummer. “The Secret of the Pearl Necklace: An Autobiography of a Pious Life.” In How to Embroider Flowers and Honeybees, edited by Ningalaka Sugamani, 5-13. New Delhi: Michigan United Press, 2017.
