Style FAQ Sheet

The International Digital Media and Arts Association Journal bases its editorial practices on the 15th Edition of the Chicago Manual of Style and the latest edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary.

Examples of Chicago-Style Documentation

The International Digital Media and Arts Association Journal follows the documentary note style as stated in The Chicago Manual of Style, fifteenth edition. This style presents bibliographic information in footnotes and a bibliography and requires page numbers when citing specific passages/ideas. Below are some common examples of materials cited. Each example is given in the documentary note style as a footnote, followed by a bibliographic entry.

PLEASE NOTE: documentary note style requires citing a page number when you are quoting a source.

Book with one author

1. Wendy Doniger, Splitting the Difference (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 74.

Doniger, Wendy. Splitting the Difference. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Book with two authors

2. Guy Cowlishaw and Robin Dunbar, Primate Conservation Biology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 87-89.

Cowlishaw, Guy, and Robin Dunbar. Primate Conservation Biology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Book with more than three authors

3. Edward O. Laumann et al., The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), 115.

Laumann, Edward O., John H. Gagnon, Robert T. Michael, and Stuart Michaels. The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.