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Overview

This page provides examples for sources that don't fit into standard categories, often called grey literature. Some specialist material is also included. Have we missed anything? Let us know and we will add an example.

Links to the relevant Chicago Manual of Style online chapters are in the examples and notes below, for access to more information.

Grey literature

Pamphlets and reports:  [14.117Pamphlets, corporate reports, brochures, and other freestanding publications are treated essentially as books. Data on author and publisher may not fit the normal pattern, but sufficient information should be given to identify the document.

See also Webpages and online documents - Government document.

Theses & dissertations - online [14.113]

If the document was consulted online, include a URL or, for documents retrieved from a commercial database, the name of the database and, in parentheses, any identification number supplied or recommended by the database.

First footnote

3. Jenny Stewart, "Depictions of Postwar London in British Fiction Films, 1946-1958" (PhD thesis, University of Leicester, 2017), 9, https://hdl.handle.net/2381/41213.


Subsequent footnotes

5. Stewart, "Depictions of Postwar London", 12. 

Bibliography

Stewart, Jenny.  "Depictions of Postwar London in British Fiction Films, 1946-1958." PhD thesis, University of Leicester, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/2381/41213.

Theses & dissertations - print [14.113]

First footnote
9. M. Pina Ford, “The Natural Law Context of Thomas More’s Utopia” (PhD thesis, University of Western Australia, 2000), 59.

Subsequent footnotes
12. Ford, “Thomas More’s Utopia,” 59.

Bibliography

Ford, M. Pina. “The Natural Law Context of Thomas More’s Utopia.” PhD thesis, University of Western Australia, 2000.

Working papers, discussion papers and similar documents, sometimes produced in advance of publication on a particular topic, can be treated in much the same way as a dissertation or thesis [14.113]. For papers or posters presented at meetings, see 14.115. For lectures, see 8.88. For recorded lectures or readings, see 14.164.


Working paper - part of a formal series title [14.116]

First footnote
1. Brendan Coates et al., "Shutdown: Estimating the COVID-19 Employment Shock," Working Paper No. 2020-03 (Grattan Institute, April 2020), 15, https://grattan.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Shutdown-estimating-the-COVID-19-employment-shock-Grattan-Institute.pdf.

Subsequent footnotes
7. Coates et al., "Shutdown," 23.

Bibliography

Coates, Brendan, Matt Cowgill, Tony Chen, and Will Mackey. "Shutdown: Estimating the COVID-19 Employment Shock." Working Paper No. 2020-03. Grattan Institute, April 2020. https://grattan.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Shutdown-estimating-the-COVID-19-employment-shock-Grattan-Institute.pdf.


Working paper - no formal series title [14.116]

First footnote
1. Victor Gekara et al., "Developing Appropriate Workforce Skills for Australia’s Emerging Digital Economy," Working paper, (National Centre for Vocational Education Research, 2017), 18, https://www.ncver.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0035/968813/Developing-appropriate-workforce-skills.pdf.

Subsequent footnotes
7. Gekara et al., "Developing Appropriate Workforce Skills," 45.

Bibliography

Gekara, Victor, Alemayehu Molla, Darryn Snell, Stan Karanasios, and Amanda Thomas. "Developing Appropriate Workforce Skills for Australia’s Emerging Digital Economy." Working paper, National Centre for Vocational Education Research, 2017. https://www.ncver.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0035/968813/Developing-appropriate-workforce-skills.pdf.

Conference papers - online [14.115]

First footnote

6. Veska Gancheva, "Application of Machine Learning Techniques for Software Anomaly Detection," paper presented at the International Conference on Applied Mathematics & Computer Science, Lefkada Island, Greece, August 2023, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10438687.

Subsequent footnotes

8. Gancheva, "Machine Learning Techniques."

Bibliography

Gancheva, Veska. "Application of Machine Learning Techniques for Software Anomaly Detection." Paper presented at the International Conference on Applied Mathematics & Computer Science, Lefkada Island, Greece, August 2023. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10438687.

 

Conference papers - print [14.115]

First footnote
7. Mark Zwolinski, "Effects of Study Habits on Scholastic Achievement," paper presented at the Third Semi-annual Meeting of the Anderson Society for Educational Measurement, San Diego, CA, September 2009.

Subsequent footnotes
9. Zwolinski, "Effects of Study Habits."

Bibliography

Zwolinski, Mark. "Effects of Study Habits on Scholastic Achievement." Paper presented at the Third Semi-annual Meeting of the Anderson Society for Educational Measurement, San Diego, CA, September 2009.

Powerpoint slides - online [14.115]

First footnote
6. Ashley Casey, "Developing a Pedagogy of Technology in Physical Education" (PowerPoint slides, Slideshare, February 16, 2014), http://www.slideshare.net/DrAshCasey/developing-a-pedagogy-of-technology-in-physical-education.

Subsequent footnotes
8. Casey, "Developing a Pedagogy."

Bibliography

Casey, Ashley. "Developing a Pedagogy of Technology in Physical Education." PowerPoint slides, Slideshare, February 16, 2014. http://www.slideshare.net/DrAshCasey/developing-a-pedagogy-of-technology-in-physical-education.

Specialist subject material

Dictionaries & encyclopaedias consulted in physical formats: [14.130] Well-known reference works, like major dictionaries and encyclopedias, are normally cited in footnotes and omitted from the bibliography. The facts of publication are omitted, but the edition (if not the first) must be specified, as well as the date the volume was issued.

Most other reference works are listed in footnotes and bibliography, with full publication details like any other book resource. See: 14.132

For references to an alphabetically arranged work, cite the item (not the volume or page number) in quotation marks. The word "under" may be added for clarity, e.g.:     1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th ed. (1980), under “salvation.”

Dictionaries & encyclopaedias consulted online: [14.131] Major/well-known online dictionaries and encyclopedias are also normally cited in footnotes and omitted from the bibliography.

For continually updated resources, instead of an edition number include a publication date or the date of the most recent update or revision. If none is available, include an access date. Include time stamps for frequently updated resources, like Wikipedia.

Include a URL or name of the library database as the last element of the citation.

Authors: [14.132] For dictionaries and encyclopedias with authored entries, it may be appropriate to cite such entries by author.

 

Dictionary - online

First footnote
2. Macquarie Dictionary, 6th ed. (2013), under "liturgy," Credo.

Subsequent footnotes
Dictionary definitions are not usually repeated.

Bibliography
Not applicable for well-known works.

 

Encyclopaedia - online

First footnote
3. Catalin Partenie, "Plato's Myths," in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Stanford University, Summer 2014), https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2014/entries/plato-myths/.

Subsequent footnotes
6. Partenie, "Plato's Myths."

Bibliography

Partenie, Catalin. "Plato's Myths." In Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford University, Summer 2014. Article published July 23, 2009; last modified June 19, 2014. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2014/entries/plato-myths/.

Cases, Legislation, and Hansard: [14.170, see also subsequent sections] Chicago Manual of Style directs users to follow guidelines in The Bluebook for citing legal works.  AGLC is based on The Bluebook and should be followed, in Australia, as the guide for citing legal materials.

AGLC - Cases
AGLC - Legislation
AGLC - Extrinsic Materials (incl. Hansard)

Secondary reference (source within a source)

Secondary references: [14.160] To cite a source from a secondary source that you have not read - "quoted in..." - is generally discouraged in scholarly writingStudents should ideally find the original source and evaluate its meaning directly. When an author’s work is presented through someone else’s eyes, it can convey an interpretation that is held by the second author rather than the meaning intended by the original author. Sometimes, the second author may even be debunking the original or considering it from a different perspective, and you may miss such variation in context, leading to a serious distortion in meaning.

If you wish to use secondary referencing, check with your lecturer or tutor. If they allow it, then follow the instructions below; if they do not allow it, find a different source.

You must make it clear that you are citing a work that has been cited by another. The reference list entry should show the source you have actually read, so like the example below you would provide the details for Costello in the bibliography, not Zukofsky.

 

First footnote
9. Louis Zukofsky, “Sincerity and Objectification,” Poetry 37 (February 1931): 269, quoted in Bonnie Costello, Marianne Moore: Imaginary Possessions (Harvard University Press, 1981), 78.

Subsequent footnotes
21. Zukofsky, "Sincerity and Objectification," 78, quoted in Costello, Marianne Moore, 78.

Bibliography

Costello, Bonnie, Marianne Moore: Imaginary Possessions. Harvard University Press, 1981.