CMOS Citation Quick Guide - Notes and Bibliography: Sample Citations
The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) was initially developed for the University of Chicago Press (more about it here) and is commonly used in History and Political Science scholarship. You will create a CMOS citation for your book using the format for notes. Here is the model citation provided by your instructor:
Nancy L. Rosenblum, On the Side of the Angels: An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2008).
If you were to use this style in a paper it would begin with a number corresponding to that in your text and have page numbering at the end. You will be using ebooks, and CMOS generally requires a DOI, URL or database name for 'books consulted online.' Here is the same title as an ebook from our EBSCOhost ebook collection:
Nancy L. Rosenblum, On the Side of the Angels : An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2008), https://search-ebscohost-com.columbiabasin.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=335076&site=eds-live&scope=site.
All of our databases provide citation generators; if you can't find it please contact a librarian. Be sure you choose the Chicago style - that is the most common mistake. Automatically generated citations will always need to be fixed before they conform to a CMOS ebook citation in the note style. You can fill in any missing information (or just create your own citation) by looking at the first few pages of the book and the online CMOS guide.
The cite tool in EBSCO provides a menu of citations in various styles for your ebook.
Here I have scrolled down to the Chicago 'notes & bibliography' style. There are differences in style between a footnote and a bibliography entry; examine with the Purdue OWL for more info. Below you will see the EBSCO citation followed by a version edited to change it to the footnote style:
From EBSCO: John Fabian Witt. American Contagions : Epidemics and the Law From Smallpox to COVID-19. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. https://search-ebscohost-com.columbiabasin.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=2593797&site=eds-live&scope=site.
Changed to CMOS Note: John Fabian Witt. American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020), https://search-ebscohost-com.columbiabasin.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=2593797&site=eds-live&scope=site.
The cite tool in JSTOR provides MLA, Chicago and APA style citations for your ebook.
Here I am copying the Chicago bibliography style; it must be edited so the first name comes first in order to turn it into a footnote.
From JSTOR: Hartley, Roger C. How Failed Attempts to Amend the Constitution Mobilize Political Change. Vanderbilt University Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv16758zb.
Changed to CMOS Note: Roger C. Hartley, How Failed Attempts to Amend the Constitution Mobilize Political Change (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2017), https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv16758zb.
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