The Chicago referencing style is quite similar to the Harvard citation style. Students use this style too to acknowledge the fact that they have used other’s ideas and words to justify their own without committing to plagiarism.
How to use this style?
Here’s where the difference between Harvard and Chicago style citation becomes apparent. The Chicago style of citation is made up of two different systems. The first one is known as the Notes-Bibliography System, wherein you are supposed to add footnotes or end-notes along with a bibliography.
For instance – 11. Richard Read, Art and its Discontents: The Early Life of Adrian Stokes (Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2002), 65. (This is an example in footnotes)
Read, Richard. Art and its Discontents: The Early Life of Adrian Stokes. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2002. (This is the corresponding example in bibliography)
The other one is referred to as the Author-Date System in which you put author-date citations in parenthesis and correspond it to a reference list at the end that contains all the details of publication. For the in-text citations of this type, you are supposed to mention the last name of the author along with the year.
For instance – (Smith 2016)
As you can see above, unlike Harvard, the comma is missing in the Chicago style.
To mention a resource in the reference list in the Chicago style, you have to put in the author’s name, the year, the book title as well as the page number.
For instance – Olney, William W. 2015. "Impact of Corruption on Firm-Level Export Decisions." Economic Inquiry 54 (2): 1105–27.
The Chicago referencing style is considered to be one of the hardest, so take the help of our Chicago format generator for this one.