Free Chicago Style Citation Generator

Chicago style citations: bibliography and footnotes

The Chicago citation generator follows the notes and bibliography system of the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition, used in history, the arts and the humanities. For every source you get a bibliography entry and the matching footnote. Turabian, the student version of Chicago, uses the same formats.

Bibliography entries

Book

Smith, John A. Psychology and Modern Life. 2nd ed. New York: Pearson, 2020.

Journal article

Brown, Laura M., and Robert T. Green. “Cognitive Load and Learning.” Journal of Educational Psychology 113, no. 2 (2021): 200–215. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000001.

Web page

Johnson, Mary. “Understanding Mental Health.” Psychology Today. June 12, 2023. https://www.psychologytoday.com/….

Chapter in an edited book

Khan, Sara. “Emotional Regulation in Youth.” In Advances in Child Psychology, edited by David Miller, 45–62. New York: Springer, 2019.

Footnotes

A footnote gives the author’s name in normal order and separates the elements with commas; the place and publisher of a book go in parentheses:

1. John A. Smith, Psychology and Modern Life, 2nd ed. (New York: Pearson, 2020), 54.

1. Laura M. Brown and Robert T. Green, “Cognitive Load and Learning,” Journal of Educational Psychology 113, no. 2 (2021): 205.

Add the page you cite at the end of the note. After the first note, a shortened note is enough: Smith, Psychology and Modern Life, 60.

Formatting the bibliography

• The heading “Bibliography” is centered.
• Entries are single-spaced with a blank line between them and a 0.5-inch hanging indent, in alphabetical order.
• Up to ten authors are listed; with more, the first seven are followed by “et al.”

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