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Chicago Style: Basics

This guide is intended to help you learn what Chicago Style is and includes. This guide will help you cite sources and avoid plagiarism. The guide also includes examples of Chicago style and lead you to resources that can help you cite sources.

Hanging Indent

The bibliography entry text should be left-justified; if an entry is more than one line, indent the subsequent line(s) half an inch from the left margin. For more information, please see the CMOS 2.24: Format for bibliographies and reference lists.

NOTE: The library's webpage doesn't show the hanging indent in our examples. 

Interviews

Interview Published in a Journal

​Reference List Format:

IntervieweeLastName, IntervieweeFirstName. Year. "Title of Interview." Interview by InterviewerFirstName InterviewerLastName. Source, Date. URL or page(s).

For Example:

Angula, Nahas. 2017. "The Pan-African Institute for the Study of African Society: an interview with Nahas Angula." Interview by Itibari M. Zulu, Journal of Pan African Studies 10, no. 1 (March 2017): 279, EBSCOhost.

Corresponding In-Text Citation:

(Angula 2016) 

See notes ¹, ²

 

Broadcast Interview available on Website

​Reference List Format:

IntervieweeLastName, IntervieweeFirstName. Year. "Title of Interview." Interview by InterviewerFirstName InterviewerLastName. Source, Date. URL.

For Example:

Springsteen, Bruce. 2016. "Watch: Bruce Springsteen, our complete interview." Interview by Jeffrey Brown. PBS NewsHour, December 20, 2016. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/watch-bruce-springsteen-complete-interview. 

Corresponding In-Text Citation:

(Springsteen 2016) 

 

¹ For more information on interviews, see the Interviews and Personal Communications This link opens in a new window section of the CMOS.

² The Citation Quick Guide section on Interviews This link opens in a new window used this format of shortened citations.