

What is a bibliography? A bibliography is a list of all the sources that were consulted in the process of your writing and research. Let’s start with the endnotes and footnotes citation system that goes with a bibliography. Even better is that you can use PlagX’s Chicago citation machine to make citations easier. The basics of both style options are covered in this guide. The Chicago Manual of Style is different to the other citation formats since it provides two style options for the writer the author-date system and the endnotes/footnotes with a bibliography. The Chicago citation format is used commonly in Humanities, Sciences and Social Sciences courses. Will this work? I was trying to modify the Conference Proceedings reference type to handle both normal and SPIE records, but is appears that this may not be the best way to do it.Guide for Chicago Style Citations Chicago citation style comes from the Chicago Manual of Style and this guide uses the most recent 17th edition. I think a better way would be to create a custom reference type in the Numbered style just to handle SPIE references. It is rather confusing because my understanding of how citations work is evolving. But the formatted citations for records with blank “Short TItle” fields show up with the full “Title” field inserted. SPIE to the Short TItle field for each record so that it would show up this way for SPIE papers from SPIE conferences, but not for other conferences where this field would be blank. SPIE 2124, in addition to the volume name. But historically, these volumes are cited by the volume number, for instance as Proc. Each SPIE conference has a name, and the papers presented at that conference appear in a volume with that name.

I set up this particular style to handle conference papers appearing in the various volumes of the “Proceedings of the SPIE”. Thanks for the detailed info about the underlying design to the styles.
