JRC Style Guide

The JRC adheres to the Chicago Manual of Style. We strongly recommend you familiarize yourself with its conventions.

Common Formatting Mistakes

  • The Em Dash — (alt +0151) should not have any spaces before or after.
  • The En Dash – (alt +0150) should have a space before and after.
  • Punctuation marks go inside “quotations.”
  • “When quoting inside a quote, use ‘single quotations.'”
  • We prefer Canadian spelling when it comes to colour, armour, marginalization, etc. (instead of color, armor, marginalisation, etc.)
  • Foonotes go after punctuation marks and quotations.

Citations

Papers must use footnotes for citations and contain a bibliography which includes all works cited. The format of bibliographical entries and citations should follow the Chicago Manual of Style.

Sample footnotes:

  1. Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown (Pantheon Books, 2020), 45.
  2. Amy J. Binder and Jeffrey L. Kidder, The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today (University of Chicago Press, 2022)
  3. Kathleen Doyle, “The Queen Mary Psalter,” in The Book by Design: The Remarkable Story of the World’s Greatest Invention, ed. P. J. M. Marks and Stephen Parkin (University of Chicago Press, 2023), 64.
  4. Liu Xinwu, The Wedding Party, trans. Jeremy Tiang (Amazon Crossing, 2021).
  5. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (New York, 1851), 627, https://melville.electroniclibrary.org/moby-dick-side-by-side.
  6. Hyeyoung Kwon, “Inclusion Work: Children of Immigrants Claiming Membership in Everyday Life,” American Journal of Sociology 127, no. 6 (2022): 1842–43, https://doi.org/10.1086/720277.
  7. Yuna Blajer de la Garza, “A House Is Not a Home: Citizenship and Belonging in Contemporary Democracies” (PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2019), 66–67, ProQuest (13865986).
  8. Eric Oliver, “Why So Many Americans Believe in So Many ‘Crazy’ Things,” moderated by Andrew McCall, virtual lecture, February 23, 2022, posted March 21, 2022, by University of Chicago, YouTube, 1:01:45, https://youtu.be/hfq7AnCF5bg.

Sample shortened notes:

  1. Yu, Interior Chinatown, 48.
  2. Binder and Kidder, Channels of Student Activism, 125.
  3. Doyle, “Queen Mary Psalter,” 65.
  4. Liu, Wedding Party, 279.
  5. Melville, Moby-Dick, 722–23.
  6. Kwon, “Inclusion Work,” 1851.
  7. Blajer de la Garza, “House,” 93.
  8. Oliver, “Why.”

Sample bibliography:

Binder, Amy J., and Jeffrey L. Kidder. The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today. University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Blajer de la Garza, Yuna. “A House Is Not a Home: Citizenship and Belonging in Contemporary Democracies.” PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2019. ProQuest (13865986).

Doyle, Kathleen. “The Queen Mary Psalter.” In The Book by Design: The Remarkable Story of the World’s Greatest Invention, edited by P. J. M. Marks and Stephen Parkin. University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Kwon, Hyeyoung. “Inclusion Work: Children of Immigrants Claiming Membership in Everyday Life.” American Journal of Sociology 127, no. 6 (2022): 1818–59. https://doi.org/10.1086/720277.

Liu Xinwu. The Wedding Party. Translated by Jeremy Tiang. Amazon Crossing, 2021.

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. New York, 1851. https://melville.electroniclibrary.org/moby-dick-side-by-side.

Oliver, Eric. “Why So Many Americans Believe in So Many ‘Crazy’ Things.” Moderated by Andrew McCall. Virtual lecture, February 23, 2022. Posted March 21, 2022, by University of Chicago. YouTube, 1:01:45. https://youtu.be/hfq7AnCF5bg.

Yu, Charles. Interior Chinatown. Pantheon Books, 2020.

For more information, please refer to the latest edition of Chicago Manual of Style and the submission guidelines on our website at www.jrc-concordia.ca/submission-guidelines.

Parenthetical Citations

Biblical passages, along with references to and excerpts from other sources and publications, notably holy books and their commentaries, may use parenthetical citations.

For example:

“In the beginning, there was the Word” (John 1:1).

If you choose to use parenthetical citations, please ensure that you include the version, edition, translation, and all other pertinent remarks in a footnote and / or bibliography.

Parenthetical citations may be used when necessary for book reviews.

They may also be used to include asides (inside the text itself).

Do not use parenthetical citations in lieu of footnotes.