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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 Cartoons, Advertisements, Illustrations, Maps and Charts

These types of items are usually cited in the notes, not the bibliography.

Original Located in a Museum or Institution

General Notes Format:

Illustrator/Entity First Name Last Name, "Title of Item" (brief description), date, Name of Institution that Houses it, Location of Institution.

For Example:

Andrew Jackson Houston, "The Siege of Bexar" (map), ca. 1836, Texas State Library, Austin, TX.

Found in a Print Source

General Notes Format:

Illustrator/Entity First Name Last Name, "Title of Item" (brief description), date, in Author/Editor's First Name Last Name, Title of Book (Publication Place: Publisher, Publication Year), page number.

For Example:

George T. Long, "That Man From Wall Street" (advertisement), 1908, in Dwight Garner Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements (New York: Harper Collins, 2009), 34.

Found Online

General Notes Format:

Illustrator/Entity First Name Last Name, "Title of Item" (brief description), date, NAme of Institution that Houses it or Website Name,Location of Institution, accessed date, URL address.

For Example:

Benjamin Franklin, "Join or Die" (political cartoon), 1754, Library of Congress, accessed April 28, 2016, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3a12149/.