Chicago Citation Generator
Chicago 17th edition (notes & bibliography and author–date), with BibTeX export.
Input
Source Details
Fill what you have, leave blank what you don't
Separate authors with semicolons.
Output
Chicago Citation
Copy-ready citation in your chosen style
Output
BibTeX Equivalent
LaTeX-ready, paste into your .bib file
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What is Chicago 17th edition?
Chicago Manual of Style (currently 17th edition) is the dominant citation format in history, art history, religion, and many humanities fields. It comes in two variants: notes and bibliography (preferred in the humanities, uses footnotes plus a bibliography) and author–date (preferred in some social sciences, uses parenthetical citations like APA). This generator produces bibliography-style entries.
Who uses Chicago?
History journals almost universally use Chicago. Art history, music, religious studies, and classical languages also tend toward Chicago. The author–date variant is common in some business and physical science journals. Turabian style is a student-focused subset of Chicago, so this generator covers Turabian needs as well.
For instructors & researchers
History faculty: Chicago footnotes are where students lose the most points. Use this generator to model correctly-formatted bibliography entries, students can compare and reverse-engineer the footnote format. For your own monograph manuscript, the BibTeX export feeds straight into the chicago bibliography style package.
Chicago examples by source type
Book
Foner, Eric. 2010. *The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.* New York: W. W. Norton.
Journal article
Cronon, William. 1992. "A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative." *The Journal of American History* 78, no. 4: 1347-1376.
Edited book chapter
Scott, James C. 1998. "Cities, People, and Language." In *Seeing Like a State,* 53-83. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Website
University of Chicago Press. 2024. "Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide." chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html.
Chicago citation questions
Should I use notes & bibliography or author–date?
Follow your journal or instructor's preference. Notes & bibliography is standard in humanities; author–date is standard in social and physical sciences that use Chicago.
Is Turabian the same as Chicago?
Turabian is essentially the student-facing version of Chicago Manual of Style. The citation format is almost identical with minor differences in scope and tone.
How do I cite a primary source archive in Chicago?
Include the document title, date, collection name, box and folder number, and the repository's name and location. The full citation lives in your first footnote; subsequent references are shortened.
What LaTeX package supports Chicago?
Use the biblatex-chicago package for either notes or author–date, fully compatible with the BibTeX output from this generator.
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