The Style Sheet for Entries
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As a general rule, we will adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition while also following additional recommendations by Oxford University Press. We will use the following citation format.
Books:
One author
Trexler, Richard. Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the Americas. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1995.
Two authors
Braybon, Gail, and Penny Summerfield. Out of the Cage: Women’s Experiences in Two World Wars. London: Pandora, 1987.
Three or more authors
Bartimus, Ted, Denby Fawcett, Jurate Kazickas, Edith Lederer, and Ann Mariano. War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam. New York: Random House, 2002.
Editor, translator, or compiler, in addition to author
Machiavelli, Niccolò. The Art of War. Translated by Christopher Lynch. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2003.
Edited Collections and Special Issues of Journals:
One editor:
Friedberg, Emil, ed. Corpus iuris canonici, 2 vols. Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1879–81.
Two editors:
Watelet, Marcel, and Pierre Couvreur, eds. Waterloo, lieu de mémoire européenne, 1815–2000. Louvain-la-Neuve: Roland, 1999.
Three or more editors:
François, Etienne, Hannes Siegrist, and Jakob Vogel, eds. Nation und Emotion: Deutschland und Frankreich im Vergleich 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1995.
Special issues of journals:
Mjǿset, Lars, and Stephen van Holde, eds. The Comparative Study of Conscription in the Armed Forces, special issue of Comparative Social Research 20 (2002).
Chapter from a Book by One Author:
Little, Ann M. Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England, pp. 12-54. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
Chapter or Other Part of an Edited Volume:
Hughes, Michael J. “Making Frenchmen into Warriors: Martial Masculinity in Napoleonic France.” In French Masculinities: History, Culture and Politics, edited by Christopher E. Forth and Bertrand Taithe, pp. 51-66. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Journal Articles:
Article in a Print Journal:
Gullace, Nicoletta F. “White Feathers and Wounded Men: Female Patriotism and the Memory of the Great War.” Journal of British Studies 36.1 (1997): 178-206.
Article in an Online-only Journal:
Include either a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) or a URL. Do not include an access date.
Neptune, Harvey. “White Lies: Race and Sexuality in Occupied Trinidad.” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 2 (2001). http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/cch/v002/2.1neptune.html.
Article in a Popular Magazine or Newspaper:
Article in a Popular Magazine:
Davidson, Amy. “Can a Film About Rape in the Military Win an Oscar?” New Yorker, February 23, 2013.
Article in a Newspaper:
“Women Fire-watchers.” Coventry Evening Telegraph, August 7, 1942.
Theses, Dissertations, and Other Unpublished Sources:
Citations of theses and dissertations should include the degree and full name of the institution to which they were submitted. National practice will vary here, but please follow the examples below as closely as possible:
American Dissertation:
Carter, Louise. “British Women during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Responses, Roles and Representations.” PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2005.
British Dissertation:
Carter, Louise. “British Women during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Responses, Roles and Representations.” D.Phil. thesis, University of Cambridge, 2005.
French Dissertation:
Rogers, Dominique. “Les libres de couleur dans les capitales de Saint-Domingue: fortune, mentalités et intégration à la fin de l’Ancien Régime (1776–1789).” Thèse du doctorat, University of Bordeaux III, 1999.
German Dissertation:
Hütte, Werner O. “Die Geschichte des Eisernen Kreuzes und seine Bedeutung für das preußische und deutsche Auszeichnungswesen von 1813 bis zur Gegenwart.” Phil. Diss., University of Bonn, 1968.
Unpublished Paper Presented at a Conference:
Chambers, Sarah. “Los mapuche: Los iconos de la americanidad o los seguidores salvajes del Rey?” Paper given at the 52nd Congress of Americanists, Seville, Spain, July 17-21, 2006.
Internet Sources:
Jourdan, Annie. “Napoleon et ses images.” H-France Napoleon Forum, edited by David K. Smith, December 13, 1997. http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~france/reviews/napoleonjourdan1.html.
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