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Citation Guide

Note: links to documents are provided wherever possible. Linking is good!

Please only cite things that you actually use in your essay (i.e. things that will be footnoted). You don't need to include a website simply because you glanced at it while you were researching your site.

However, citations are really important. They're the best way to show someone how you did your research; if your bibliography looks weak, then your research looks weak.

Website

Last name, first name. "Title of page (linked to page itself)." Title of website (date accessed). Weiser-Alexander, Kathy. "Bent Brothers-Trading on the Santa Fe Trail." Legends of America (accessed November 15, 2018).

Book, single author

Last name, first name. Title. Location of publication: publisher, year. Parker, Lewis K. Why German Immigrants Came to America. Barrington, Ill.: Rigby, 2002.

Book or government report, multiple authors

Last name (of editor), first name (ed.) Title. Location of publication: publisher, year. Piper, Mary J. (ed.) The History and Archaeology of the Historic Fort Marcy Earthworks, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Santa Fe: City of Santa Fe Planning and Land Use Department, 1996.

Government document with no author(s) listed

Agency/organization name. Title. Location of publication: publishing agency, year. National Park Service. Santa Fe National Historic Trail: Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico: Comprehensive Management and Use Plan. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior/National Park Service, 1990.

National Register of Historic Places Nomination

Last name (of preparer), first name. "Site name." National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination Form. Location where form was prepared: organization that prepared it, year. Pankratz, Richard. "J.B. Mahaffie House." National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination Form. Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, 1977.

Journal/magazine article

Last name, first name. "Title." Publication volume, number (date): page number(s). Lubers, H. L. "William Bent's Family and the Indians of the Plains." Colorado Magazine 13, no. 1 (January 1936): 19-22.

#Common mistakes/issues

  • alphabetize your bibliographies by author's last name
  • include page numbers (government documents sometimes have funky numbering, but more info is better than less)
  • be consistent (Chicago style is the default for historical writing, so it's a good place to start if you're feeling lost)
  • cluster your footnote tags at the very bottom of the document (this makes your citations easier to edit after the fact)
  • for footnotes, just use the author's last name and page number (separated by a comma)
  • be sensitive of links and permissions (someone reading your article may not be able to access the UNM Libraries server, so best not to include a link in the first place)