Libraries: Art/Art History: Writing & Citing

Art and Art History

Untitled: Four Etchings ,1992

Glenn Ligon (American, 1946)
Portfolio 4 etchings,edition 7/45

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Chicago is the citation style most often required in art history. These tools will help you learn how to use Chicago style correctly.

Chicago Manual of Style - Quick Guide
Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide
Purdue Online Writing Lab - Chicago Please use tabs on left side of web page to locate specific citation examples for different types of material.
Chicago - How to Cite a Work of Art
A concise but complete guide to citing a work of art in Chicago style.

Use these programs for large research projects to help you save, sort, and format citations

EndNote Web
Bibliographic management - organizes, stores, and styles your references for a report. Please note that before you can use EndNote Web, you must sign up for an account, at the EndNote Web URL, from a campus computer. After the initial registration, you may use EndNote Web from any computer.
Zotero
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself.

Many databases will format citations for you according to standard styles. Look for links like this in your database results:

In addition, you can use these tools to create citations in APA, Chicago, or MLA Style:

Citation Builder
Enter information about books, book chapters, journal articles, and web sites into Citation Builder and get citations formatted in MLA and APA style.
KnightCite

A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations by Kate L. Turabian; Wayne C. Booth (Revised by); Gregory G. Colomb (Revised by); Joseph M. Williams (Revised by); University of Chicago Press Staff (Revised by)
Call Number: Reference Ref. LB2369 .T8 2007
ISBN: 9780226823379
Publication Date: 2007-04-15
The dissertation secretary at Chicago for decades, Kate Turabian literally wrote the book on the successful completion and submission of the student paper. Her Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, created from her years of experience with research projects across all fields.
The Chicago Manual of Style by University of Chicago Press Staff (Editor)
Call Number: Reference Ref. NF253.U69 2003
ISBN: 9780226104034
Publication Date: 2003-08-01
The Fifteenth Edition is available in book form and as a subscription Website. The same content from The Chicago Manual of Style is in both versions.
* New, expanded Web site with special tools and features for Manual users at www.chicagomanualofstyle.org.