THE ALMY LIBRARY
GUIDE TO CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE CITATIONS
models for citing an encyclopedia or reference article (print)
Footnote
1 Firstname Lastname, “Title of Article,” in Title of Reference Work, ed. Firstname Lastname, Vol. Number (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication), page number.
Bibliography
Lastname, Firstname. “Title of Article.” In Title of Reference Work, edited by Firstname
Lastname. Vol. Number. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication.
Note
When citing an article from a reference work that is unsigned, include the title of the article in quotation marks; the title of the book in italics; the editor, edition, volume number (or, if volume number is not available, total number of volumes); the publication information (place: publisher, year); the page numbers. Start with the author when the article is signed. If you are citing an alphabetically-arranged encyclopedia, dictionary or other reference work, use the abbreviation "s.v." (sub verbo, "under the word") in the footnote, not the volume and page number.
examples for an encyclopedia or reference article (print)
Footnote
1 Jane Lancaster, “Domesticity and the Ideology of Separate Spheres,” in Encyclopedia of Women in American History, ed. Eileen K. Cheng, Vol. 2 (Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 2002), 7.
2 Lancaster, “Domesticity,” 7.
Bibliography
Lancaster, Jane. “Domesticity and the Ideology of Separate Spheres.” In Encyclopedia of Women in
American History. Vol. 2. Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 2002.