Microsoft® Manual of Style, Fourth Edition

Bibliographies and citations

Scholarly works require documentation of source material in a bibliography. Other works also occasionally require that you cite source material or direct the user to a publication for further information. If you need to provide a bibliography or provide a formal citation, follow the examples listed here.

Citing books and printed articles

To cite books and printed articles, follow The Chicago Manual of Style “Documentation I” format. Exception: Follow the United States Postal Service abbreviations for states.

Bibliographies are usually formatted with a hanging indent. If a design template does not support hanging indents, separate each entry with a line of white space.

Only basic bibliographic entries are listed here. For ...