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Chicago 17th edition notes and bibliography

Footnotes and Bibliography for the Chicago Manual of Style 17th edition

Subsequent citations

Subsequent citations of sources already given in full, either in a previous note or in a bibliography that provides complete bibliographic data, should be shortened whenever possible bearing in mind that it should contain enough information to identify the previously cited work.

The most common short form consists of the last name of the author and the main title of the work cited, usually shortened if more than four words

Subsequent citations - books

Elements of citation

Author -- Title -- Page number

Long citation

101. Andrew G. Bonnell, Shylock in Germany: Antisemitism and the German Theatre from the Enlightenment to the Nazis. (London: Tauris Academic Studies, 2008), 15.

102. Alastair Blanshard, Hercules: A Heroic Life (London: Granta, 2006).

103. Rennie, Kriston. "The normative character of monastic exemption in the early medieval Latin west." Medieval Worlds 6 (2017): 61-77. https://doi:10.1553/medievalworlds_no6_2017s61.

Shortened citation

231. Bonnell, Shylock in Germany, 37.

336. Blanshard, Hercules, 151.

423. Rennie, "Monastic Exception", 65.

   

Subsequent citations - journal articles

Elements of citation

Author -- Title -- Page number

Long citation

71. Lisa Featherstone, "‘That's What Being a Woman Is For’: Opposition to Marital Rape Law Reform in Late Twentieth‐Century Australia," Gender and History 29, no. 1 (2017): 99.

Shortened citation

179. Featherstone, ‘That's What Being a Woman Is For,’ 94.