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Chicago Notes and Bibliography Citation Generator

Enter one source to get its Chicago full note, shortened note and bibliography entry. This tool covers Chicago's notes-and-bibliography system; for parenthetical citations and a reference list, use the author-date generator.

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What are you citing?
Authors

In the order shown on the source. Leave blank if no person or organization is named.

Author 1
Author type

As the source gives them, such as Amy J.

As it appears on the source, including any subtitle after a colon, in headline-style capitals.

Date of publication

Leave blank if the source shows no date.

More details (optional)

A number, such as 2. Leave blank for a first edition.

Such as 10.1086/720277, or the full https://doi.org/ link.

Only if there is no DOI.

Chicago Notes and Bibliography

Fill in the form, or load the example, to see the notes and bibliography entry.

How notes and entries are formatted

  • The first citation of a source gets a full note; every later citation gets a shortened note with the author's surname, a short title and the page.
  • Notes give names in normal order and separate elements with commas. The bibliography inverts the first author and separates elements with full stops.
  • In a book's note, the publisher and year go in parentheses; in the bibliography they end the entry. A place of publication is no longer required.
  • A note cites the specific page; the bibliography gives an article's full page range, as in 127, no. 6 (2022): 1818–59.
  • Two authors are named in full; with three or more, notes give the first and “et al.”, and the bibliography lists up to six.
  • A DOI, as a https://doi.org/ link, is preferred to a URL. Web pages without a date get an access date.

What the generator can't do

  • Your document. The generator formats citation text. It doesn't number notes, insert them into your document, or know which sources you've cited before.
  • Short titles. Titles longer than four words need your judgment to shorten; enter your own short title when asked.
  • Author-date. For parenthetical citations and a reference list, use the Chicago Author-Date Citation Generator.
  • Other sources and contributors. Chapters, editors, translators, news articles, databases and other formats aren't supported yet.
  • Your instructions. An instructor or publisher may require changes to standard Chicago; their instructions come first.
  • Whether the details are right. The generator formats what you enter; check names, dates and numbers against the source.

Privacy

Your citation is generated entirely in your browser. Nothing you type is sent to ResearchKit or anyone else, or stored.