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Early United States History

The New Republic to Reconstruction (1783-1870)

Writing Help

Difficult Citations for Chicago 17th Ed.

After using a source one time you can shorten the citation.

For Books:

Author's Last name, shorten title of the book in Italics, page number. ex. Millard, Destiny of the Republic, 54.

For Articles:

Author's Last Name, Title of Journal in Italics, page number. ex. Cook, The New England Quarterly, 302.

For an electronic resources such as a webpage depending on what information you actually have. For any source you could be missing information, but put as much as you can find.