Footnote and Bibliography Format for HIST 1121

Footnote and Bibliography Format for HIST 1121

Examples of Style for Footnotes

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1. John D. Belshaw, Canadian History: Pre-Confederation (Vancouver: BCcampus, 7 March 2015), http://opentextbc.ca/preconfederation/.

[Note: Italicize book titles.]

2. Colin M. Coates, Metamorphoses of Landscape and Community in Early Quebec(Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000): 125.

[Note: “Ibid.” is a Latin abbreviation meaning “in the same place” and refers to the immediately previous reference (that is in this case, #2 above). If the citation refers to page 126 rather than page 125, then write “Ibid., 126.”]

4. Susan Neylan, “Unsettling British Columbia: Canadian Aboriginal Historiography, 1992–2012,” History Compass11, no. 10 (2013): 845–858.

[Notice how the article title is not italicized while the journal title is italicized? This is an example of a print journal article; see 10 and 11 below for online examples.]

5. “Frank Abbott Interview,” Canadian Historians on Video: An OER, Video file, 4:11 (Kamloops: TRU, 2015).
6. Neylan, “Unsettling British Columbia,” 849.

[Note: This is a second citation, so it may be shortened.]

7. “Wendy Wickwire Interview,” Canadian Historians on Video: An OER, Video file, 1:08:11 (Kamloops: TRU, 2015).
8. Belshaw, Canadian History,1–7.2.

[Note: Another second citation.]

9. Christine Moreland, “Review of Testimonies and Secrets: The Story of a Nova Scotia Family 1844–1977, by Robert Mennel,” ca: History Matters, last modified 20 February 2015, http://activehistory.ca/2015/02/review-of-testimonies-and-secrets-the-story-of-a-nova-scotia-family-1844-1977-by-robert-m-mennel/.
10. Charles C. Mann, “1491,” The Atlantic, 1 March 2002, http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/03/1491/302445/.

[Note: This is how you cite an article from a free website.]

11. Allan Greer, “National, Transnational, and Hypernational Historiographies: New France Meets Early American History,”Canadian Historical Review91, no. 4 (December 2010): 695–724, http://muse.jhu.edu.ezproxy.tru.ca/journals/canadian_historical_review/v091/91.4.greer.html.

[Note: This is how you cite an article from a Subscription Database. It looks similar to #10, but that URL takes you to the magazine/journal itself, while this URL takes you to a database site

Examples of Style for Bibliography

Ajzenstat, Janet. Canadian Founding: John Locke and Parliament. Montréal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007.

Belshaw, John D. Canadian History: Pre-Confederation. Vancouver: BCcampus, 2015. http://opentextbc.ca/preconfederation/.

Canadian Historians on Video: An OER. Video file. Vancouver: BCcampus, 2015.

Donovan, Kenneth. “Slaves and their Owners in Île Royale, 1713–1760,” Acadiensis 25, no. 1 (Autumn 1995): 3–32.

See how the surnames come first and are listed alphabetically? For additional assistance, see the TRU Library’s Chicago Manual of Style web guide at http://libguides.tru.ca/chicago.