Chicago Manual of Style

This guide has been adapted from examples provided in the 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style and A Short Guide to Writing About Art by Sylvan Barnet.  These are the styles used most often in art research.  However, bibliographic citation guides do vary; always check with your professor as to style preference.

Patton, Sharon F. African-American Art.  Oxford History of Art.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Two or three authors:

Janson, H.W., and Anthony F. Janson.  History of Art.  New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2001.

Part of a book (such as an essay or article in a collection):

Nemerov, Howard.  "On Poetry and Painting, with a Thought on Music."  In Poets on Painters, edited by J.D. McClatchy, 177-184.  Berkely: University of California Press, 1988.

An editor:

Osborne, H., ed. Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Art.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

One author:

Winkfield, Trevor.  "Looking into Vermeer."  Art in America 84, no. 5 (1996): 70-78/

Jackson, Russell.  "Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon."  Shakespeare Quarterly 51 (Summer 2000): 217-229.

Two or three authors:

Farmer, Alan B., and Zachary Lesser.  "The Popularity of Playbooks Revisited."  Shakespeare Quarterly 56 (Winter 2005): 1-32

Note: For journals in which each issue begins on page one, include both the volume and issue number; for journals using continuous pagination, the issue number is not necessary.

Magazine Article (print):

Unsigned article:

"The Search for Ideas."  U.S. News and World Report, 13 Aug. 2007, 37.

Signed article:

Sammons, Tania Jane.  "Pioneers in Historic Preservation." The Magazine Antiques, July 2007, 64.

Online Database Article:

Winkfield, Trevor.  "Looking into Vermeer."  Art in America May 1996.  In Expanded Academic ASAP (database online).  Gale Group.  Accessed 5 January 2004.  Available: Pine Manor College Library.

Campbell, Robert.  "Richardson Revisited with Style."  Boston Globe, May 13 1986, 70.

Aricle (online database):

Campbell, Robert.  "Richardson Revisited with Style."  Boston Globe.  May 13 1986.  In Expanded Academic ASAP (database online).  Gale Group.  Accessed 5 January 2004.  Available: Pine Manor College Library.

Encyclopedias

Article (print):

Isaacson, Joel.  "Monet, Claude."  In The Dictionary of Art, vol. 21, 861-868.  London: Macmillan, 1996.

Article (online):

"Cezanne, Paul," in Encyclopedia Britannica.  2007.  Encyclopedia Britannica Online.  http://search.eb.com/eb/article-9022192 (accessed August 27, 2007).

Web Sites

Authored or edited:

Bartleby.com: Great Books Online.  Ed Steven van Leeuwen.  2007.  http://www.bartleby.com/.  August 27, 2007.

No author or editor identified:

Degas and the Dance.  Public Broadcasting Service, 1995, revised 2004.  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/. 5 January 2004.

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