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Chicago A (Notes & bibliography)

Guide to the 17th edition

Image from a website or database

Bibliography

Artist or creator Last Name, First Name. Title of Work. Date. Medium. Dimensions (if applicable). Museum Name, Museum Location (if applicable). Accessed Month Day, Year, https://xxxxxxxxxxx.

Gogh, Vincent van. Starry Night. 1889. Oil on canvas. 73.7 x 92.1 cm. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Accessed August 28, 2018, https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/vincent-van-gogh-the-starry-night-1889/.

In-text

… as depicted in Starry Night.1

First footnote

1 Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889, oil on canvas, 73.7 x 92.1 cm., Museum of Modern Art, New York, accessed August 28, 2018, https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/vincent-van-gogh-the-starry-night-1889/.

Subsequent footnotes

2 Gogh van, Starry Night.

Notes

  • The title of the image is in italics.
  • Words in the titles and subtitles are capitalised, except articles and prepositions.
  • If an artwork does not have an exact date, use an approximate date preceded by ca. (short for circa), for example, ca. 1450.

Image from a book or journal article

Bibliography

Create a bibliography entry for the book or journal article the image appears in. Use the usual book or article style.

Footnote

Artwork

The Nativity artwork

1. Piero Della Francesca, The Nativity, ca. 1415-1492, National gallery, London, in Masterpieces of Biblical Art (Avenel Books, 1973), 54.

Figure or map

Ancient map of Greece
Reference as per book. After the page number, note any figure number and caption.

1 Robin Osborne, Greece in the Making 1200-479 BC, 2nd ed. (Taylor & Francis, 2009). 36. Figure 4. Sites occupied in Late Helladic IIIA2 and IIIB. Ebook Central.

Subsequent footnotes

3 Osborne, Greece in the Making.

Notes

  • The title of the work is in italics.
  • If the source is online, the URL must be included.