1. Notes-Bibliography Style
This Chicago style consists of either footnotes OR endnotes, AND a bibliography.
- used in humanities subject fields such as literature, history, and the arts
- may use numbered footnotes - citations at the bottom of each individual page that corresponds to a source in the bibliography OR
- may use numbered endnotes - citations at the end of the paper that corresponds to a source in the bibliography
includes a bibliography listed in alphabetical order as the final element in the paper
- Example: Notes-Bibliography Database Citation for Peer-Reviewed Article
- NOTE: The citation tools in library databases are great, because you can simply copy/paste it into your paper. BUT...sometimes database citations are wrong AND you must correct it before you submit your paper. For example: The ALL CAPS in the author's names in the citation example below is incorrect, and must be fixed before you submit your paper.
2. Author-Date Style
- used in the physical, natural, and social sciences
- sources are briefly cited in-text within parentheses by author’s last name and date of publication (Jones, 2020)
- in-text parenthetical citations correspond to a list of references, where complete bibliographic.
Link to samples and examples of Note-Bibliography and Author-Date methods are described in the video below.
