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Referencing style - Chicago: Images and Tables

A guide to using the Chicago 17th referencing style for footnotes and reference lists.

Images and Tables

The examples on this page are for refering to an image or table in the text of your document. 

For copied images or tables in your document, see Captions for Illustrations and Tables for how to format your citations in the caption.

Material type Note (footnote) example

Subsequent note entry

(see CMOS 14:30)

 Bibliography example
Image: Print     5. Georgia O'Keeffe, The Cliff Chimney, 1938, Milwaukee Art Museum, in Barbara Buhler Lynes, Lesley Poling-Kempes, and Frederick W. Turner, Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico: A sense of place (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004), 25.  

O'Keeffe, Georgia. The Cliff Chimney. 1938. Milwaukee Art Museum. Buhler Lynes, Barbara, Lesley Poling-Kempes, and Frederick W. Turner, Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico: A sense of place. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.

See Chicago Manual of Style Chapter14, Section 14.235
Image: Online

    6.  Georgia O’Keeffe, The Cliff Chimney, 1938, oil on canvas, 36 x 30", Milwaukee Art Museum, accessed August 10, 2016, https://gokmrc.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/ a-hike-at-ghost-ranch/.

Please note: "Information about paintings, photographs, sculptures, or other works of art can usually be presented in the text rather than in a note or bibliography."  Taken from Chicago Manual of Style Chapter14, Section 14.235.

    
Table    1. Reid Ewing and Otto Clemente, Measuring urban design: Metrics for livable places (Washington: Island Press, 2013), 65, table 4.1.   Ewing, Reid, and Otto Clemente. Measuring urban design: Metrics for livable places. Washington: Island Press, 2013.

 

Creating Notes (Footnotes) using Microsoft Word

By default, Microsoft Word will format footnotes at the end of the page with a superscript number and no indent.  

For the Chicago Notes and Bibliography style, you will need to manually change the font size of footnote number and indent it.

See our instructions on how to create a Note (footnote) in Word and manually edit the format according to the Chicago Notes and Bibliography style.

Please check with your Unit Coordinator to see if their preference is to use the formal Chicago style footnote formatting or the default Word format.

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