What is a Citation?
What is a citation?
A citation gives researchers basic information about the creation of a document or work of art.
It tells you:
- Who created it
- What it is called
- When it was published or created
- Where it was published or created
Why are citations important?
- A citation can help you find additional sources for your research.
- A citation gives credit to the author/creator whose work you’ve used.
- A list of citations will form your bibliography or works cited, usually required of your assignment.
Citing Books in Chicago
Citing Edited Works in Chicago
Citing Journal Articles in Chicago
Practice Mining Citations
- Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new windowGale Virtual Reference Library offers a wide variety of full-text interdisciplinary content on virtually any subject area to support assignments, papers, projects, and presentations. Includes the Scribner Writers Series.
- Google ScholarYou can search Google Scholar using the citations for existing works and sometimes you will find a full-text copy of the article.
Google Scholar also allows you to "cite forward" its articles; in other words, you can see who has cited a particular article, to determine further developments in this line of research and find additional related sources.
