Unlike many citation styles, Chicago gives writers two different methods for in-text citations: Author-Date style and Notes-Bibliography style. The Author-Date option uses parenthetical citations in the text to reference the source's author's last name and the year of publication. Each parenthetical citation corresponds to an entry on a References page that concludes the document. By contrast, the Notes-Bibliography option uses numbered footnotes in the text to direct the reader to a shortened citation at the bottom of the page. This corresponds to a fuller citation on a Bibliography page that concludes the document.
Ex. of Author-Date: Lyotard (1984) sees “modern” as a fit for describing “any science that legitimates itself concerning a metadiscourse.
Ex. of Notes-Bibliography: 1. Jodi Dean, Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009), 30.
Book
Notes:
1. Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums (New York: Viking Press, 1958), 128.
Bibliography:
Kerouac, Jack. The Dharma Bums. New York: Viking Press, 1958.
Journal
Notes:
1. Susan Peck MacDonald, “The Erasure of Language,” College Composition and Communication 58, no. 4 (2007): 619.
Bibliography:
MacDonald, Susan Peck. “The Erasure of Language.” College Composition and Communication 58, no. 4 (2007): 585-625.
