If you are creating a reference for Indigenous knowledges, please record any information that is appropriate as a part of your own protocols, and ways of giving acknowledgement and respect.

Indigenous understandings of authorship, community, Country, cultural authority, context, time and place are not appropriately recorded. There is currently no guidance in the Chicago Manual on Indigenous Knowledges and Knowledge-Keepers.

These templates have been adapted by Kwantlen Polytechnic University Library for Chicago Style.Įach template recommends recording further information to reference Indigenous knowledges and knowledge-sharing practices in context.

Excellent templates have been created by Lorisia MacLeod for MLA and APA Style.

Nathan Sentance has created guidance for Non-Indigenous authors citing Indigenous Knowledges in APA style.

Danièle Hromek & Sophie Herbert at UTS created a design-centred guide in APA.

There are a number of templates, ideas and resources being circulated in referencing Indigenous Knowledges, as First Nations people, communities and librarians co-create and decolonise referencing systems. Indigenous Knowledges and Knowledge-Keepers The bibliography can be divided into sections (e.g. Titles of smaller works (e.g., chapters, articles and web pages) or unpublished works are enclosed in quotation marks and not italicised.įor books, specify the edition for all editions other than the first.ĭo not include personal communications, such as letters or informal emails, in the bibliography. Titles of larger works (e.g., books, journals and websites) are italicised. Titles are capitalised headline-style (all major words).

Where there are four or more authors the footnote should give the name of the first author only, followed by ‘et al.’ The bibliography entry should include the names of all the authors. The first-listed author’s name, according to which the entry is alphabetised in the bibliography, is inverted (last name first). In a bibliography entry the elements are separated by periods rather than by commas and the facts of publication are not enclosed in parentheses.

Endnote example of a book citation