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Art & Graphic Design

This guide will help you find resources for your art research and assignments.

Attribution Best Practices

Best practices for CC attribution
You can use Creative Commons-licensed materials for free as long as you follow the license conditions. One condition of all CC licenses is attribution (Opens a new tab).
Guide to Attributing Creative Commons Materials [PDF]
This guide is designed to help you ensure you are attributing the creator of a CC licensed work in
the best possible way (Opens a new tab).
How To Attribute Creative Commons Music On Youtube [video]
Open Attribute
These tools will query the metadata around a CC-licensed object and produce a properly formatted attribution that users can copy and paste wherever they need to (Opens a new tab).
Attribution Builder
A tool to help you build attributions. As you fill out the form, the app automatically generates the attribution for you (Opens a new tab).

Using Chicago Style

The main book that will help you cite your sources and format your work in Chicago Style is The Chicago Manual of Style:

The Chicago Manual of Style

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To get you started, here's the format for citing the most common types of resources in your Chicago Style bibliography:

Book

Author's Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. Place of publication: Publisher, Year of publication.

Article in a Journal found in a Database

Author's Lastname, Firstname. “Title of Article.” Journal Title volume number, no. issue number (publication date): page number-page number. Accessed date. doi: 0000000/000000000000 or URL.

Web Source

Author's Lastname, Firstname. “Title of Web Page.” Publishing Organization or Name of Web Site. Publication date and/or access date if available. URL.

Don't forget that you can use either the notes-bibliography system or the author-date system in Chicago Style!

Need more help with Chicago Style? Check out the following resources:

Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) - Chicago Guide
See more citation examples and a sample paper (Opens a new tab).
Citation Machine
Citation Machine formats your citations in MLA, APA, or Chicago Style. With this site, you generally have to input all of the publication information, but you don't have to sign up for an account (Opens a new tab).

Need More Help?

These great websites provide a lot of examples and additional resources on multiple citation styles.

	Linscheid Library Citation Styles Guide
	Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)