Note Format
It is important that footnotes be standardized and that they contain certain relevant information. Here are formats for some common types of sources you will use in History courses at Trent. For types of sources not noted here, please see the Chicago Manual of Style, available at the Bata Library information desk, or online at The Chicago Manual of Style Online.
For books:
1Doug Owram, Born at the Right Time: A History of the Baby Boom Generation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996), 67.
For subsequent citations of the same work, list the author's last name, short form of the title, and page number in a new note:
2Owram, 53.
If you are using more than one work by the same author, for subsequent citations of the same work, list the author's last name, short form of the title and page number in a new note:
3Owram, Born at the Right Time, 53.
For journal articles:
4Reginald Stuart, “Anti-Americanism in Canadian History,” American Review of Canadian Studies 27 (1997): 293 (290-316).
For subsequent notes:
5Stuart, 292.
For articles drawn from a collection of essays:
6Pascal Ory, “From Baudelaire to Duhamel: An Unlikely Antipathy” in The Rise and Fall of French Anti-Americanism: A Century of French Perception, ed. D. Larcorne (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1990), 42.
For articles used from the second edition of an author’s own collection of essays:
7 Ramsay Cook, “Loyalism, Technology, and Canada’s Fate” in his The Maple Leaf Forever: Essays on Nationalism and Politics in Canada, 2nd edition. (Toronto: Macmillan, 1977), 45.
For modern editions of primary sources:
8Gregory of Tours. The History of the Franks, ed. and trans. Lewis Thorpe (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974), 57-59.
9Fulcher of Chartres, "The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres" in The First Crusade: The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and Other Source Materials, ed. Edward Peters, trans. Martha E. McGinty (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971), 166-67.
For an introduction to a modern edition of a primary source:
10Lewis Thorpe, introduction to The History of the Franks, ed. and trans. Lewis Thorpe (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974), xiv.
For an article in an online journal include full original publication information, if known, and include a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) if the journal lists one. A DOI is a permanent ID that, when appended to http://dx.doi.org/ in the address bar of an Internet browser, will lead to the source. If no DOI is available, list a URL. Include an access date:
11Gueorgi Kossinets and Duncan J. Watts, “Origins of Homophily in an Evolving Social Network,” American Journal of Sociology 115 (2009): 411, accessed February 28, 2010, doi:10.1086/599247.
For websites don't forget to include the page heading (if there is one) and the access date:
12"Embassy Headlines," American Embassy, Ottawa, accessed Aug. 24, 2010, http://canada.usembassy.gov/content/index.asp.
For newspaper articles:
13Louis Cornellier, “De jeunes historiens des idées,” Le Devoir (18 November 2000): D18.
For archival sources:
14Adolphe Robert to Lionel Groulx, Manchester, New Hampshire (5 December, 1922): 1. Archives of the Centre de Recherche Lionel-Groulx, Lionel Groulx Fonds, P1/A, 3201.