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Verify Chicago citations

Chicago supports both notes-bibliography and author-date systems, and AI tools love to blend the two into a hybrid that exists in neither. Book citations also carry publisher and place fields that have no online index to check against.

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Chicago reference anatomy

Author(s). Year. “Title.” Journal Volume (Issue): pages.

LeCun, Yann, Yoshua Bengio, and Geoffrey Hinton. 2015. “Deep Learning.” Nature 521 (7553): 436–44.

What goes wrong in Chicago bibliographies

  • Notes-bibliography vs author-date confusion producing hybrid citations
  • Fabricated publisher locations for book citations
  • Wrong volume/issue pairs on real journals

A Chicago citation we would flag

Goodfellow, Ian, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville. 2016. Deep Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Partial — real source, fields differ

The book is real, but it was published by MIT Press, not Cambridge University Press. The publisher is flagged against the ISBN record.