The following are guidelines for formatting your bibliography and footnotes. For additional information see the citation guide in the Art & Art History Research Guide.
- When quoting from a source, attribute the quote, set it off by quotation marks, and indicate your source by a superscripted number:
- Sample format:
- According to Gwendolyn Wright: “Theory and practice in the colonies referred back to France.”2
- When using information from a source, without quoting directly from it, you should use only a superscripted number:
- Sample format:
- Colonies were shaped on the image of the metropole.3
- Sample footnote or endnote format:
- 1 Gwendolyn Wright, The Politics of Design in French Colonial Urbanism (Chicago, Chicago University Press: 1996), 6.
- Citations from the same book appear in the following manner:
- Or, if citations from the same book appear together:
- A bibliography should follow your endnotes or footnotes.
- Sample format for books:
- Wright, Gwendolyn. The Politics of Design in French Colonial Urbanism (Chicago, Chicago University Press: 1996).
- Sample format for articles:
- Wright, Gwendolyn. “Tradition in the Service of Modernity: Architecture and Urbanism in French Colonial Policy, 1900-1930” Journal of Modern History, v. 59, n. 2 (Jun. 1987): 40-75.
- Illustrations should be identified in the text as follows:
- The new urban square is laid out in a cross-axial manner (fig. 3).
- A list of illustrations should appear before the bibliography.
- Sample format:
- Fig. 1: View of the Casbah from Gwendolyn Wright, “Tradition in the Service of Modernity: Architecture and Urbanism in French Colonial Policy, 1900-1930” Journal of Modern History, v. 59, n. 2 (Jun. 1987): 45.
- Carefully cropped and captioned illustrations should appear at the end of your paper, marked with the appropriate figure numbers.
