Create a spot-on reference in Chicago 18, 17 and 16
General rules
To reference a preprint correctly in line with the requirements of Chicago Style – notes and bibliography (17th ed.), it is necessary to identify whether the source you are dealing with is a book intended to be published by the publisher or an article made available online before it has been published in a scholarly journal.
Depending on the type of source, the reference will include different elements placed in different orders.
Preprint of a book:
Template of reference in a bibliography:
Author. Title. City: Publisher, forthcoming.
Template of full note:
Author, Title (City: Publisher, forthcoming), number of the cited page.
Template of short note:
Author, Title, number of the cited page.
Preprint of an article:
Template of reference in a bibliography:
Author. "Title." Preprint, submitted in Year or date submitted. URL.
Template of full note:
Author, "Title" (Preprint, submitted in Year or date submitted), number of the cited page, URL.
Template of short note:
Author, "Title," number of the cited page.
Example of reference in a bibliography
Deya, Parijat, Tobias Hansena, and Mykola Shpot. "Operator Expansions, Layer Susceptibility and Two-Point Functions in BCFT." Preprint, submitted in 2020. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.11253.pdf.
Examples of notes
1. Parijat Deya, Tobias Hansena, and Mykola Shpot, "Operator Expansions, Layer Susceptibility and Two-Point Functions in BCFT" (Preprint, submitted in 2020), 23, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.11253.pdf.
2. Deya, Hansena, and Shpot, "Operator Expansions," 23.