Referencing
The Courtauld’s recommended referencing style is the Chicago Manual of Style Online. The Library team and the Academic Skills tutor can support you in using this style guide. Other humanities referencing styles may also be acceptable, but please check with your course tutor and ensure that you are consistent.
The Chicago Manual of Style Quick Guide provides examples of how to cite the most commonly used sources. The complete Chicago Manual of Style Online is a comprehensive guide which provides extensive advice and citation examples.
General advice
It is important that you keep track of the sources that you use. This helps you remember which ones are authoritative and retrace them when you need so. Most importantly keeping a record of the sources will be useful when you are referencing them on your assessed works.
Whilst Chicago Manual of Style covers most citation examples, where there isn’t specific advice or examples for a source, find a similar example that broadly matches what you want to do within the Chicago Guide and then to be consistent with it.
Getting help
Please see the online version of the Chicago Manual of Style Online. Follow the links on this webpage or find it on the library catalogue LibrarySearch through a keyword search or by using the Database Search function.
You can use a Book a Librarian appointment to get 1-2-1 help with referencing.
Reference management software
While it remains essential to understand the principles of citation there are also tools that can help you organise the process. Reference Management Software can help you integrate the research process with the compilation of a bibliography, rather than treating them as separate tasks. Even if you don’t need to write a bibliography, they are a powerful way of keeping track of the literature you have consulted and allow for annotation, tagging, note-taking, creating relationships between documents and sharing documents among research groups. There is a range of software packages, some are free or low cost such as Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote, et al. The Library can help you start on Zotero.