the complete Chicago Manual of style is
available to wdu students as an e-book
to access the e-book choose the books
media tab. Type Chicago manual in the
search box. Limit your results on the
left to ebooks and choose the most
recent edition which is 2017. Click on view e-book.  The link in the catalog takes you to the
Chicago Manual of style table of
contents page. You can see that the
manual covers many issues related to
research and publication style.  Please
note that several editions are available
online. You want to use the 17th edition
as it is the most current.  The section of
the Chicago Manual of style that you
will use most is Part III: Source
Citations and Indexes. Specifically you
will use chapter 14 Notes and
Bibliography. Do not use chapter 15
Author-Date references. This format is
utilized by social sciences and science
subjects. Chapter 14 provides guidance on formatting both footnotes and
bibliography entries. The chapter first
provides an overview section, basic
format examples, general information
about footnotes and general information
about bibliographies. Following these
sections you see a section on
author's names and a section on titles
with helpful information. But more
importantly, following those sections you
get specific examples by source type.
Books
Periodicals --  Websites, Blogs and Social
Media -- Interviews and Personal
Communications -- Papers, Contracts and
Reports -- Manuscript Collections -- Special
Types of References -- Audio-visual
Recordings and Other Multimedia -- and
finally, Legal and Public Documents.
Notice that the chapter 14 overview
section at the top includes a section
for information about sources consulted
online. The Chicago Manual of style no
longer requires or even recommends
including a date accessed in the
footnote or bibliography entry for
online sources. Section 14.12
explains why. According to the manual:
"An access date -- that is the self-reported
date on which an author consulted a
source is a limited value...Chicago does
not therefore require access dates in
its published citations of electronic
sources unless no date of publication or
revision can be determined from the
source. Knowing your way around the table
of contents in the Chicago Manual of
Style is very helpful but you may also
want to use the search box in the upper
right corner. If I type [access date] in
the box I get a list of results and the
top result is that section 14.12 that we
just looked at. To return to the chapter
14 contents list click on CMOS 17
contents at the top and choose section
14 again. The Chicago Manual of Style
provides very specific examples. For
instance, if I scroll all the way down to
section 14.104 I get examples for
sources that have both an author and an
editor or a translator. So again, here's
the short explanation at the top,
followed by specific examples of
footnotes,
and specific examples of bibliography
entries. There are many quick guides to
Chicago Style online, but it is important
to know your way around the full and
official Chicago Manual of Style
in order to correctly cite all sources.
