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Chicago Citation Style 18th Edition

This guide will help you cite sources in Chicago Citation Style 18th Edition.

 

   

Secondary Citation (When You Have Not Seen the Original Source)

Numbers in parentheses refer to specific chapters and sections in The Chicago Manual (18th ed.) 

Sometimes an author will quote work someone else has done, but you are unable to track down the original source. In this case, both the original and the secondary source must be listed in the note and the bibliography.

If, for example, you were reading the book The Birth of Feminism: Women as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England and the author, Sarah Gwyneth Ross, made reference to the article "The Educational Ideas of Christine de Pisan," by Astrik L. Gabriel, but you could not find a copy of Gabriel's article you would refer to it as per the layout below.

General Format

Full Note

1. Author First Name Surname {original author}, Title (Year): page number, quoted in Author First Name Surname {the author of the book that refers to the thoughts/ideas of the other author}), Title (Publisher, Year), page #.

Shortened Note

2. Author Surname {original author}, Title, page #.

Bibliography

Author Surname, First Name {original author}. Title. Publisher, Year. Quoted in Author First Name Surname {the author of the book that refers to the thoughts/ideas of the thoughts/ideas of the other author}. Title. Publisher, Year, page #.

Example

Full Note

1. Astrik L. Gabriel, "The Educational Ideas of Christine de Pisan," Journal of the History of Ideas 16, no. 1 (1995): 3-21, quoted in Sarah Gwyneth Ross, The Birth of Feminism: Women as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England (Harvard University Press, 2009), 23.

Shortened Note

2. Gabriel, "The Educational Ideas," 3-21.

Bibliography

Gabriel, Astrik L. "The Educational Ideas of Christine de Pisan." Culture and Imperialism: Journal of the History of Ideas 16, no. 1 (1995). Quoted in Sarah Gwyneth Ross. The Birth of Feminism: Women as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England. Harvard University Press, 2009, 23. 

Tips

See The Chicago Manual (14.160) for more information on citing Secondary Source.