Chicago Citation Generator

Chicago 18th edition: the rules the generator follows

The generator uses Chicago's notes and bibliography system, the one usual in history and the humanities, and gives you a bibliography entry, a full first footnote and a shortened note for later citations.

• Bibliography authors: list up to six; for seven or more, list the first three followed by et al.
• Note authors: one or two authors are named in full; for three or more, the first author followed by et al.
• Titles in title case: italic for books and journals, quotation marks for articles and web pages.
• Publisher only: the 18th edition no longer requires the place of publication for books.
• Page ranges are abbreviated the Chicago way (207–17, 101–8, 321–28).
• Web pages: give a publication or revision date if there is one; otherwise an access date.

Chicago citation examples

These examples are produced by the generator above, so what you see here is exactly what it gives you.

Book

Bibliography

Yu, Charles. Interior Chinatown. Pantheon Books, 2020.

First note

1. Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown (Pantheon Books, 2020).

Shortened note

2. Yu, Interior Chinatown.

Journal article

Bibliography

Grady, Jamie S., Malina Her, Geena Moreno, Catherine Perez, and Jillian Yelinek. “Emotions in Storybooks: A Comparison of Storybooks That Represent Ethnic and Racial Groups in the United States.” Psychology of Popular Media Culture 8, no. 3 (2019): 207–17. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185.

First note

1. Jamie S. Grady et al., “Emotions in Storybooks: A Comparison of Storybooks That Represent Ethnic and Racial Groups in the United States,” Psychology of Popular Media Culture 8, no. 3 (2019): 207–17, https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185.

Shortened note

2. Grady et al., “Emotions in Storybooks.”

Web page

Bibliography

UCAS. “How to Write Your Personal Statement: 2026 Entry Onwards.” Accessed October 17, 2026. https://www.ucas.com/applying/applying-to-university/writing-your-personal-statement/how-to-write-your-personal-statement-for-2026-entry-onwards.

First note

1. “How to Write Your Personal Statement: 2026 Entry Onwards,” UCAS, accessed October 17, 2026, https://www.ucas.com/applying/applying-to-university/writing-your-personal-statement/how-to-write-your-personal-statement-for-2026-entry-onwards.

Shortened note

2. UCAS, “How to Write.”

Setting out your bibliography

• Start the list on a new page headed Bibliography.
• Sort it alphabetically by the first word of each entry (the generator's saved list does this for you).
• Use a hanging indent: the first line of each entry at the margin, later lines indented by 0.5 inch (1.27 cm).
• Use the same font, size and line spacing as the rest of your essay.

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