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Chicago Format & Citation Style: Notes and Bibliography, 17th Edition

Primary Source within a Secondary Source

FOOTNOTE format and examples:

1 Author's first name last name, description of primary source, Date, in Title of Secondary Source in Italics, ed. Editor's first name last name (Place of publication: Publisher, Year), inclusive pages.

2 Paulina Jackson to John Pepys Junior, October 3, 1676, in The Letters of Samuel Pepys and His Family Circle, ed. Helen Truesdell Heath (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955), 43-44.

3 Jackson, letter to Pepys, 47.

BIBLIOGRAPHY format and example:

Author's last name, first name. Description of primary source, Date. In Title of Secondary Source in Italics, edited by Editor's first name last name. Place of publication: Publisher, Year.

Jackson, Paulina. Letter to John Pepys Junior, October 3, 1676. In The Letters of Samuel Pepys and His Family Circle, edited by Helen Truesdell Heath. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955.

Item in a Manuscript Collection

FOOTNOTE format and examples:

1 Author's first name last name, description of item/document, Date, Name of Collection, Name of Institution and Location.

2 Joseph Dinkel, description of Louis Agassiz written at the request of Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, n.d, Louis Agassiz Papers, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

3 Dinkel, description of Agassiz.

4 George Creel to Colonel House, 25 September 1918, Edward M. House Papers, Yale University Library, New Haven, CT.

5 Creel, letter to House.

BIBLIOGRAPHY format and example:

Author's last name, first name. Description of Item/Document. Date. Name of Collection. Name of Institution and Location.

Creel, George. Letter to Colonel House. September 25, 1918. Edward M. House Papers. Yale University Library, New Haven, CT.

Dinkel, Joseph. Description of Louis Agassiz written at the request of Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, n.d. Louis Agassiz Papers. Houghton Library, Harvard University.