ART 100: Olson, J. (Spring 2025) - The Grand Tour: Chicago citations

The University of Chicago Press publishes a style guide used by authors who publish in the field of history, and it is the style that you will use in your Art 100 class.

Use the link below to download a double-sided handout produced by the University of Washington Libraries that shows you how to format your footnotes/endnotes and bibliography in Chicago style.

Chicago Style Guides

Visit Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL) Chicago Style Guide for a sample paper and instructions for citing individual sources such as newspaper articles, scholarly journals and books.

The University of Pittsburgh also provides good information about Chicago Style.

Please visit TCC's Citation ​Libguide if you are interested in learning more about:

• Why citation is important
• What, when, where and how to cite
• Why there are a variety of citation styles (APA, MLA, Chicago, and others)

After you gather information from outside resources to add to your own ideas about a topic, you will quote, paraphrase, or summarize those sources within the body of your paper. Citing allows you to share with your readers where you got your information (so they can make judgements about its validity or follow up on an interesting idea) and it protects you from any charges of plagiarism.

In Ms. Olson's class, you should use Chicago style, which requires you to provide:

1. A numbered footnote/endnote--letting your readers know when an idea comes from someone other than yourself within the text of your paper. You must include all of the citation information in the footnote/endnote and you may also include additional information if you wish (see example in next box)
2. A separate bibliography page where you will list complete information about each of the sources you consulted, including those from your footnotes/endnotes.