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Chicago Citation & Referencing Guide

Further Types of Footnotes: Journal Articles, etc.

Journal Article

1st Footnote: Walter Blair, "Americanized Comic Braggarts," Critical Inquiry 4, no. 2 (1997): 331-32.

2nd/Short Footnote: Blair, "Americanized Comic Braggarts,", 335.

E-journal Article

1st Footnote: Rosemarie Mulcahy, "Innovation and Technique: Stoney Road Press," Irish Arts Review 24, issue 3 (Autumn 2007): 113, JSTOR Ireland Collection.

N.B.: you can include the URL instead of a database name. Ideally, if available, you should include the DOI (digital object identifier) as this is a permanent link to the article, as opposed to the URL in the browser's address bar.

(No short footnote)

Magazine/Newspaper Article

1st Footnote: Dan Chan, "Bills Target Erie Mussels," The Pittsburgh Press, March 7, 1990, 7.

2nd/Short Footnote: Chan, "Bills Target Erie Mussels," 7.

Website

1st Footnote: "WD2000: Visual Basic Macro to Assign Clipboard Text to a String Variable," Microsoft Corporation, last modified November 23, 2019, https://support.microsoft.com/kb/212730. Accessed July 7, 2020.

2nd/Short Footnote: Microsoft Corporation, "WD2000: Visual Basic Macro to Assign Clipboard Text to a String Variable,".

Dissertation

1st Footnote: Stephen Twambey, "Emptiness in Art in Post-War Dublin" (Ph.D. Thesis, Dublin Institute of Technology, 2013), 29.

2nd/Short Footnote: Twambey, "Emptiness in Art in Post-War Dublin", 32.

N.B.: titles of unpublished works are not always put in italics.

Art Work

1st Footnote: Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto, The Birth of John the Baptist, ca. 1550, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

2nd/Short Footnote: Tintoretto, The Birth of John the Baptist.

If you are referring to an artwork from an electronic source, you would include the following-

1st Footnote:  Author First Name Surname, Image Title, Year, Medium, Format, Location of physical version (if applicable), URL. 

2nd/Short Footnote: Author Surname, Image Title.

If you are referring to an artwork from a print source, you would include the following-

1st Footnote: Author First Name Surname, "Photograph Title," Year Photo was Taken (if provided), in Book Title (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year), page or plate #.

2nd/Short Footnote:  Author Surname, "Photograph Title."

NB: depending on your institution or school, artworks can be given footnotes and included in the bibliography, just given footnotes,not listed in the bibliography but listed separately as figures in the list of illustrations, or just included in the list of illustrations and given a 'figure' number in the text, e.g. "fig. 1". Please check with your school/suprvisor.

Social Media Content

1st Footnote: Michal Bryans (@michaelbryans), President Obama welcomes Vladimir Putin to the White House," Instagram photo, April 1, 2017, https://www.instagram.com/p/CErm/VTtMCt/.

2nd/Short Footnote: Bryans, "President Obama".

DVD/Film/TV Programme

1st Footnote: Amelie, DVD, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, (London: Momentum Pictures, 2001).

2nd/Short/Footnote: Amelie.

Interviews (Published)

1st Footnote: Cynthia Turner, "How the Modern Dictionary Keeps Up with Modern Speech," interview by Gavin Lear, Fresh Air, NPR, April 1, 2018, 33:19, https://www.npr.org/2018/05/91/123456789/how_the_dictionary_keeps_up_with_modern_speech.

2nd/Short Footnote: Turner, interview.

N.B.:If the interview was unpublished, include where the transcript is held or where it took place if you conducted the interview.

Unpublished Lectures/Conference Papers

1st Footnote: Alva Dowsett, "Truthful Sources," (paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Irish Design Society, Dublin, February 9, 2020).

2nd/Short Foortnote: Dowsett, "Truthful Sources".

N.B.: if a conference paper is available online, add the URL at the end of the footnote.