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Chicago A: 18th edition

Guide to the 18th ed. of Chicago A (Notes and Bibliography)

Image or artwork online or from a Museum

In-text

… as depicted in Starry Night.1

First footnote

No Given Name(s) Surname, Title of Work, date, medium, dimensions (if applicable), Museum Name, accession or object number (if available), https://xxxxxxxxxxx.

1 Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889, oil on canvas, 73.7 x 92.1 cm., Museum of Modern Art, New York, object no. 472.1941, https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79802.

Subsequent footnotes

2 van Gogh, Starry Night.

Bibliography

Artist or creator Last Name, First Name. Title of Work. Date. Medium, dimensions (if applicable). Museum Name. Accession or object Number (if available). https://xxxxxxxxxxx.

van Gogh, Vincent. Starry Night. 1889. Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 92.1 cm. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Object no. 472.1941. https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79802.

Notes

  • Information about paintings, photographs and other works of art is usually presented in the text. If a more formal citation is needed, follow the examples above. 
  • Title: Is in italics. Use title case, except prepositions consisting of four or fewer letters (for example, as, of, the, in).
  • Date: If an artwork does not have an exact date, use an approximate date preceded by ca. (short for circa), for example, ca. 1450.
  • URL: For works consulted online, add a URL. If available only via a subscription database, list the name of the database.
  • For further examples, see CMOS 14.133.

Image from a book or article

Footnote

Example caption:

The Nativity artwork

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

Example figure or map:

Ancient map of Greece

Figure 2. 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.

Bibliography

Create a bibliography entry for the book or journal article the image appears in. Follow the relevant citation rules according to the type of resource you are citing (e.g. book or journal articles).