Chicago note example: Encyclopedia or dictionary (less-known work, with author). The note starts with an indent and the note number 14. The author's name is listed in the normal order, followed by a comma. Bryan A. Garner, The title is Garner's Modern American Usage. It is italicized and is followed by no punctuation.The place of publication, the publisher, and the date are in parentheses, followed by a comma: (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), The abbreviation s v period is followed by the title of the entry in quotation marks: "brideprice."