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Chicago 17th

Chicago 17th edition is a footnote referencing style requiring an in-text citation, a related footnote within the text, plus a related entry in a bibliography at the end of your document.

Thesis or dissertation - in-text citations & footnotes

In-text citations

Add a superscript number in your text to show when you are using another person's ideas or words. 

... as described by Cowan, this has only recently been identified.1

Footnote citations

The footnote contains information about the source you are citing, include the page number(s) of the page/paragraph within the item you are referring to. When citing the same source again, use the shorter footnote formats.

Footnote numbering: Footnotes are placed in numerical order at the bottom of the page. On a new page, footnote numbering continues. In a new chapter, footnote numbering starts from 1.

Thesis title: The "Thesis Title" is in normal font and title case (capitalise the first letter of each major word), with quotation marks around it. 

For more information on reference list format and style, see General information - basics of referencing

 

Full Footnote Format from a University website

Footnote number. Author First Name Last Name, "Thesis/Dissertation Title" (Thesis Type, University/Institution, Year), page number(s), URL.

Example

1. Keri Morgan, "Arts and the Individual" (master’s thesis, University of Auckland, 1985), 60.

 

Full Footnote Format  from a database

Footnote number. Author First Name Last Name, "Thesis/Dissertation Title" (Thesis Type, University/Institution, Year), Database (publication number), page number(s).

Example

1. Ted Sullivan, "Raising Pacific Arts Profile" PhD diss., Victoria University of Wellington, 2012, ProQuest (AAT 3315682), 80.

 

Shortened Footnote Format

Use author's last name only. If the thesis title is longer than four words, shorten it.

Footnote number. Author Last Name, "Thesis/Dissertation Title," page number.

Examples

1. Morgan, "Arts and the Individual," 126.

2. Sullivan, "Raising Pacific Arts Profile," 87.

 

Citing the same source again

When footnote references to the same source follow each other, with no other references in between, use the shorter footnote form:

1. Archer, "Crisis and Change," 37.

2. Archer, 40.

3. Archer, 40.

4. Wall, Truth and Meaning, 324.

5. Archer, "Crisis and Change," 43.

Note: Chicago 17th edition discourages the use of 'ibid.' in favour of this shorter format.

Thesis or dissertation - bibliography

Thesis title: The "Thesis Title" is in normal font and title case (capitalise the first letter of each major word), with quotation marks around it. 

For more information on reference list format and style, see General information - basics of referencing

Thesis from a university website

Format 

Author Last Name, First Name. "Thesis/Dissertation Title." Thesis Type, University/Institution, Year. URL.

Example

Morgan, Keri. "Arts and the Individual." Master’s thesis, University of Auckland, 1985.

Thesis from a database

Format 

Author Last Name, First Name. "Thesis/Dissertation Title." Thesis Type, University/Institution, Year. Database (publication number).

Example

Sullivan, Ted. "Raising Pacific Arts Profile." PhD diss., Victoria University of Wellington, 2012. ProQuest (3315682).