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Chicago Style

This guide is intended to help you learn what Chicago Style is and includes. This guide will help you cite sources and avoid plagiarism. The guide also includes examples of Chicago style and lead you to resources that can help you cite sources.

About Photographs, Paintings and Other Works of Art

Photographs, paintings and other works of art are not included in the bibliography, just the notes.

Photographs, Paintings and Other Works of Art

Original Work Located in a Museum or Institution

General Notes Format: 

2. Artist's First Name Last Name, Title of Artwork (or a brief description), medium, date, Name of Institution that Houses it, Location of Institution.

For Example:

2. Portrait of Sam Houston, daguerreotype, ca. 1845, Sam Houston Memorial Museum, Huntsville, TX.

Found in a Print Source

General Notes Format: 

3. Artist's First Name Last Name, Title of Artwork (or brief description), medium, date, in Author/Editor's First Name Last Name, Title of Book (Publication Place: Publisher, Publication Year), page number.

For Example:

3. Sioux beaded pouch, in Jeremy Schmidt In the Spirit of Mother Earth: Nature in Native American Art (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994), 35.

 

Found Online

General Notes Format;

4. Artist's First Name Last Name, Title of Artwork (or brief description), medium, date, Name of Institution that Houses it or Website Name, Location of Institution, accessed date, URL address.

For Example:

4. Edward S. Curtis, Nespilim Woman, photograph, ca. 1905, Library of Congress, accessed April 28, 2016, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/ecur/item/2001695861.