BibTeX to Chicago Converter
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Paste or upload a .bib file and get a Chicago author-date reference list, 18th edition, in alphabetical order with titles in title case. Copy it into Word or Google Docs and the italics and hanging indent come with it.
How to convert BibTeX to Chicago
Step 1
Add your BibTeX
Use Upload file, drop the .bib on the box, or paste the entries.
Step 2
Convert
Chicago is already selected on this page.
Step 3
Copy
Copy all puts the reference list on your clipboard, formatted. A download saves it as plain text.
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Author-date, not notes and bibliography
Chicago has two systems. This converter produces author-date: in-text citations like (LeCun, Bengio, and Hinton 2015) and a reference list with the year after the authors. It is the usual choice in the sciences and social sciences.
The notes and bibliography system (footnotes, common in history and the humanities) is not produced here. In LaTeX, the biblatex-chicago package does both systems.
Zeta, Yann, Yoshua Bengio, and Geoffrey Hinton. 2015. "Deep Learning." Nature 521 (7553): 436–44. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14539.
- Authors: up to six are listed; with seven or more, the first three and "et al."
- Year right after the authors, so readers can match (Author Year) in the text.
- Titles in title case, article titles in quotation marks, journals and books in italics.
Frequently asked questions
The 18th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style (2024), author-date system.
Yes: \usepackage[authordate]{biblatex-chicago} with your .bib. Use this converter when you need the reference list outside LaTeX.
Yes, from the Chicago citation generator, which gives the author-date in-text form for each source.
If an entry has a syntax error, the result lists it with its line number and reason, and the other entries still convert.
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