A Guide to Tricky Citations for Academic Authors & Editors

All academic writers know that they need to properly cite their sources. Whether you’re directly quoting from a text or speech, paraphrasing the thoughts of another scholar, or reprinting an image or table, you need to cite the original author in order to give them credit and provide breadcrumbs for readers to learn more.

While the Chicago Manual of Style’s (CMOS) guidelines for common bibliography and note citations are generally well known by scholarly writers, there are a number of other tricky formats that often confuse academic authors.

In this brief guide, assembled from recommendations by my expert team of citation editors at Flatpage, I’ll introduce you to the hardest types of citations for academics to get right using CMOS and provide you with sample notes so you can get them right next time!