To cite books and printed articles, follow The Chicago Manual of Style “Documentation I” format. Exception: Follow the United States Postal Service abbreviations for states.

Bibliographies are usually formatted with a hanging indent. If a design template does not support hanging indents, separate each entry with a line of white space.

Only basic bibliographic entries are listed here. For more information, see “Bibliographies and reference lists” in The Chicago Manual of Style.

The following paragraph lists the order and punctuation for each element in the citation of a book.

Author’s name (surname first for the first author, given name first for additional authors). Title: Subtitle. Any additional information about the work, including editor’s or translator’s name and volume number. Edition number, if not the first. Place of publication: publisher, date.

References to electronic information have the same intent and a format similar to the citations of printed material. That is, they follow the same general order of information such as author and title, but that information is followed by information such as the commercial supplier (if from an information service), the distribution medium (such as CD-ROM) or the Internet address, and the date accessed, if relevant. The important thing is to give enough information so that a user can find the source. Use lowercase for email or other logon names, or follow the protocol of the email service provider.

If the source appears both online and in print, give enough information so it can be found in either format. Rather than indicating page numbers of a magazine article that appears online, give an approximate length indication, usually in number of paragraphs.

This information is adapted from Electronic Styles, cited fully in the sample book citations in this topic. Electronic Styles itself follows Modern Language Association (MLA) style rather than The Chicago Manual of Style, but the kind of information to cite is accurate.