Citing and Avoiding Plagiarism

Overview

Online:

The Chicago Manual of Style Online Content List 

In the Library:

The most recent editions of Turabian's A Manual for Writers and The Chicago Manual of Style are kept at the Reference Desk. Ask at the Desk if you need help or would like to consult them.

Capitalization in Foreign Language Titles

When adding a title that is in a foreign language, follow these basic rules regardless of citation style:

For German, capitalize the first word and all nouns.

For French, capitalize THROUGH the first noun in the title.

For Italian and other languages, capitalize just the first word.

(NOTE: Always capitalize all proper nouns.)

The Bibliography Style Guidelines

The Bibliography Style is preferred by many in the humanities (e.g., literature, history, and the arts). This style presents bibliographic information in notes (either footnotes or endnotes) and, often, a bibliography. It accommodates a variety of sources, including esoteric ones less appropriate to the author-date system.

NOTE: If the bibliography includes all works cited in the notes, the note citations can be quite concise, since readers can turn to the bibliography for publication details. In works with no bibliography or only a selected list, full details must be given in a note at first mention of any work cited. Subsequent citations of that work may then be concise.

Each example includes a note [N] followed by a bibliographic entry [B]. After the first book entry, all Note examples will use the full version. To make it concise, use just the author's last name(s), the main title, and page number(s).

Click here for Middle Georgia State's brief guide to this system.